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How do I use the Knowledge Organiser to support subject-specific vocabulary teaching?

Bedrock's Knowledge Organiser provides a place for the learner to revise their Tier 3 vocabulary teaching and revisit written activities.

If your school's Bedrock subscription includes Mapper, every learner will be able to view every subject has their Knowledge Organiser allowing them to focus on subject-specific understanding when revisiting vocabulary.

Through the knowledge organiser, learners are encouraged to revisit their learning, reflect on their knowledge and rate their confidence in each curriculum area.

The knowledge organiser houses the vocabulary curriculum for each subject area. The explicit teaching for each word, including the definition, description, example, formula and image are displayed for each word. 

TIP: It is important not to think of the Knowledge Organiser as a static document, like an exercise book.

Including the words students are learning, or have learned, over time; the organiser is reactive and changes to display progress over time. If a learner is re-served a word that they have ‘learned’ and answers incorrectly, it goes into their reteaching queue and moves back to ‘learning.’

Schools can empower learners to use their knowledge organiser as a revision tool. For example, learners can add additional information they have learned to their vocabulary notes.

Teachers can access the knowledge organiser report to collate all learners' writing for a particular subject or class. This is a powerful tool that many teachers use in class to spotlight excellent work that models how to write like a subject expert.

Teachers can download word-level data from their learners' knowledge organiser and quantify the number of words that student is learning. This allows teachers to track learners' vocabulary improvement across the curriculum over any desired timeframe.