Int elem. teacher; 🇬🇧 in 🇯🇵; interested in the teaching & learning of reading & writing and the science of learning.
Tokyo, Japan
Joined January 2020
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It's official. The Word Mapping Project website is up, and the curriculum is now available for purchase. A big thank you to everyone who supported me during this process. Let's do right by kids.
wordmappingproject.com
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**New** chapter on “Literacy” just published in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science. The whole series is super, accessible chapters and no paywalls, a great resource for teaching. oecs.mit.edu/pub/epclh9no/re…
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Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research led by @a_lopukhina shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.
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@ReadingShanahan has kindly responded to my thread in the comments in his blog.
However, I think that he has missed some of what I wrote. Here is his response:
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If you are interested in reading instruction, evidence and thoughtful, productive debate, I'd highly recommend that you follow @mattw009.
I'm not certain we agree about everything, but I deeply respect his willingness to discuss ideas in good faith.
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☝️Dylan Wiliam said that Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. This poster summarises some key ideas from CLT and offers 6 strategies to optimise instruction and maximise learning.
👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics
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🥳Our website is 8 years old!
We're celebrating 8 years of supporting schools with quality book recommendations, topic booklists and age group reading for pleasure resources!
We'll be celebrating all this week - and look out for a giveaway later!
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I've spent the last few years working with hundreds of schools, enough to spot some patterns and (I hope) to write some useful threads over the coming months.
Here's the first one...
In my opinion, what do primary schools commonly get wrong with their reading lessons? 🪡
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Our Initial Code App is designed to help children develop their blending, segmenting, word #reading, and #writing skills. 🌟
Available exclusively on iPad, this user-friendly app brings the Sounds-Write approach directly to your fingertips. 🏠🎒
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What they left out: It’s not ALL knowledge. Students need support in developing comprehension ability. During reading - responding to prompts about the content and connections and how to use their knowledge to understand text.
Great article by Daniel Buck on 'teaching reading comprehension': Focus on decoding, vocabulary, and content knowledge, and not 'teaching the main idea.
fordhaminstitute.org/nationa…
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Free resources 🚨Want to get more bang for your buck from the books you share? Read our latest blog which outlines how to enhance SEL, reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition simultaneously! 📚researchschool.org.uk/town-e…
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Multicomponent writing instruction appears to yield better results:
writing4pleasure.com/multico…
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👇 Since introducing these one-pagers in my school in 2022, I’ve seen teachers’ engagement with evidence informed ideas sky-rocket.
Like in any school, our teachers are time-poor, so distilling important ideas into an easily digestible format offers a practical solution.
Here are 7 ways one-pagers have supported our teachers:
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It appear that when we read a sentence, the cognitive load is greatest at the end of the sentence where we experience a 'wrap up' effect as we draw the themes together. The more clauses, the greater the demand (Lobina et al. 2017).
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This someone IS saying don’t teach comprehension strategies or skills. Rather, engage in interactive reading & discussion as a text is read. Identify important info & connect it to build meaning.
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Do you teach upper grades? Check out this website on morphology instruction! @sblackwellslpd sites.google.com/view/litera…
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“The principal source of knowledge for understanding writing is writing itself. It is by using writing that children will learn to master it…”
writing4pleasure.com/2024/03…
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This is a great read by @Doug_Lemov. In primary/secondary English, I find it most helpful to view the curriculum as texts, texts, texts. Volume, frequency, quality, challenge! You can make almost any curriculum CD fit a good text based lesson. educationnext.org/why-are-bo…
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This is a phenomenal book, Josh's work has moved my thinking forward on instructional coaching more than anything else I've come across.
Well worth a read if you're keen to take your coaching, and your understanding of coaching, to the next level!
