Language Across the Curriculum

Subject-specific language support for science, maths and humanities. Keep the disciplinary thinking ambitious and make the reading, writing and talk visible.

Disciplinary literacy: teaching within each subject

Explore worked tasks and annotated responses for science, maths, history, geography, art, design technology, music and PE.

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Choose a subject Find support by age and CEFR

Start with the task and use language support to make the subject reasoning accessible.

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Science

Scientific explanations, practical instructions, data and evidence-based conclusions.

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Maths

Reasoning through words, symbols, diagrams and clearly explained methods.

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Humanities

Sources, causal explanations, geographical patterns and supported judgements.

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Find the kind of support you need

Each subject has separate pages for language skills, classroom systems, curriculum contexts and planning.

Focus	Science	Maths	Humanities
Reading, writing and talk	Science: reading, writing and talk	Maths: reading, writing and talk	Humanities: reading, writing and talk
Classroom systems	Science: classroom systems	Maths: classroom systems	Humanities: classroom systems
Curriculum contexts	Science: curriculum contexts	Maths: curriculum contexts	Humanities: curriculum contexts
Subject planning	Science: subject planning	Maths: subject planning	Humanities: subject planning

Worked writing and media resources

Subject writing

Investigation reports, methods, data commentary, fieldwork and source analysis.

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Complete writing lessons

Teach with annotated models, planning sheets and revision checks.

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Listening and viewing

Build before, during and after activities for subject media.

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