DIALLS
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  • Project
    • About the Project
    • Work Packages
    • Public Deliverables
    • People
      • Partners
      • International Advisory Board
    • DIALLS News Archive
    • Media Archive
  • Teacher Resources
    • Teacher Resource Bank
    • Cultural Literacy Learning Programme
    • Professional Development Materials
    • Scales of Progression for Cultural Literacy Learning
    • Library
  • Impact
    • Blog
    • Virtual Gallery
    • DIALLS Student Manifesto
    • What Teachers Say About DIALLS
    • Tweet Archive
  • Research Data
    • DIALLS Multilingual Corpus
  • Publications
    • Books & Articles
    • Policy Briefs

Teacher Resource Bank

The DIALLS teacher resource bank includes many resources to support you in your planning, teaching and assessment for cultural literacy learning.

The resource bank includes:

  • The Cultural Literacy Learning Programme (10 lessons for KS1, KS2 and KS3)
  • Professional Development materials with accompanying session notes
  • Scales of Progression to support the assessment and planning of cultural learning and dialogue
  • A library of wordless texts with supporting discussion prompts to help you extend cultural literacy learning

What do teachers and students say about DIALLS?

See what teachers say
See the Student Manifesto
Visit the tweet archive

Cultural Literacy Learning Programme

The Cultural Literacy Learning Programme (CLLP) is a teaching resource developed as part of the DIALLS project by a multi-national team of researchers and teachers. It was developed, piloted, implemented and then refined in over 350 classes in seven countries.

The programme has two main aims:

  • Cultural learning: support children and young people to discuss topics related to living together, being socially responsible and exploring cultural heritages and identities
  • Dialogue and argumentation: enhance the class’s ability to talk and reason together, teaching them the importance of listening carefully to other views, building on these and sometimes challenging or disagreeing with them

The CLLP includes:

  • A guidance booklet with an overview of the programme and ideas for getting started
  • A series of 10 lessons for each age group (KS1, KS2, KS3)
  • Each lesson includes a short, wordless film as an exciting and engaging stimulus for discussions, and a lesson prompt card. As the films are wordless, they can be used in any language of instruction!

Linking with other schools
DIALLS is all about connecting and exploring ideas together. Our School Networks page offers suggestions for how you can find other schools across Europe who might be interested in collaborating with your class in DIALLS discussions.

Start Using the CLLP

Professional Development for the CLLP

There are three professional development sessions to support the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme. Each session includes a short video with an accompanying PDF of session notes.

Exploring Cultural Literacy

This session introduces you to DIALLS and its cultural literacy themes.

Watch the video here.
Download the PDF of session notes here.

Promoting and Building Dialogue in the Classroom

This session offers guidance for teaching and modelling dialogue skills in the classroom. It explores how a dialogic classroom can be enabled and introduces the Progression Tool for Dialogue.

Watch the video here.
Download the PDF of session notes here.

The Wonders of Wordless Films

This session will support you to make the most of the wordless films in and beyond the CLLP lessons.

Watch the video here.
Download the PDF of session notes here.

Scales of Progression for Cultural Literacy Learning

The Scales of Progression for Cultural Literacy Learning (SPCLL) comprise two tools to help you assess and plan for cultural literacy learning and dialogue in the classroom.

Dialogue Progression Tool

The dialogue progression tool draws on research about the development of dialogue and argumentation in the classroom, and is illustrated with examples from real classrooms involved in the DIALLS project during the 2019-2020 school year.

We look specifically at how dialogue enables us to act with tolerance, empathy and inclusion, thinking about not only our own ideas, but how they relate to the ideas of others and how we can work together in a dialogic community.

Access the Dialogue Progression Tool here.

Cultural Learning Progression Tool

The cultural learning progression tool draws on existing frameworks from UNESCO, Council of Europe and Oxfam which consider the growth of cultural literacy and the knowledge, skills and understanding that underpin it.

Access the Cultural Learning Progression Tool here.

DIALLS Library of Wordless Books & Films

The DIALLS Library is a curated collection of wordless books and films that can stimulate discussion about DIALLS themes They were carefully selected by DIALLS researchers using feedback from teachers and students.

If you would like to extend cultural literacy learning beyond the CLLP, our library has over 40 specially licensed films with discussion prompts to support you.

Within the library, you will find:

  • The 20 films we have included in the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme
  • Over 40 additional films accompanied by discussion prompts to extend cultural literacy learning
  • Descriptions of 74 wordless picturebooks that could be used to support DIALLS themed discussions

For further support, look at our guidance on Mediating Wordless Picturebooks. Our Professional Development materials also include a session on The Wonderful World of Wordless Films.

Go to the library

DIALLS Research: Books & Articles

DIALLS has published many peer-reviewed journal articles, monographs and edited books over the course of the project. All are freely accessible, and the full list can be found on our Books & Articles page.

An article that sets the scene of DIALLS and explores some teacher responses to the CLLP is Building a European Community through Responses to Books and Films (2020) by F. Maine, published in English 4-11 (available in English).

Go to books & articles
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