How to use the knowledge organiser to support learners using the core curriculum.

To check a learner’s written exercises 

By clicking on a word in a learner's Knowledge Organiser, a teacher can see the written notes that a learner made. They can then give feedback in the app or personally. It is suggested that they praise excellent examples of the written activity publicly. 

To see which learning has been retained

By looking at the ‘Vocabulary I have learned’ column, a teacher can see which words a student has learned since using Bedrock. This is key qualitative data showing the impact of Bedrock on an individual.

To see which learning is still being activated 

By looking at the ‘Vocabulary I am learning’ column, a teacher can see which words a learner is still actively learning. They can add to Bedrock’s multimodal teaching by giving in-class examples of this vocabulary to aid deep comprehension.

For differentiated activities in the classroom

The teacher can set a writing task and ask all learners to use words from their knowledge organiser (ideally, words in the ‘I am learning’ and ‘I have learned’ columns). This encourages consistency, yet differentiation. It also encourages metacognition as learners will think about their Bedrock words outside of Bedrock and how they put this learning into practice. 

For whole class activities

Teachers can highlight a tricky word learnt by someone and use this as a teachable moment to discuss vocabulary, ask others in the room for synonyms and antonyms, and then use it in a sentence relevant to that lesson.

To encourage and reward learners

A positive attitude towards literacy is key to a successful language-rich community.

Praise and support your learners with their Bedrock work wherever you can.