Ambitious and powerful vocabulary My commitment to exposing pupils to ambitious and powerful vocabulary, the vocabulary of the subject, remains unabated. Although there is a story to be told before “free” reading, I pick up the baton just after the …
From micro to macro I am still thinking deeply about our curriculum. Having previously thought a great deal about micro curriculum planning, this thinking is more macro thinking. I have thought hard and consulted on the principles and purpose of …
Over at “The Confident Teacher” Alex Quigley (@alexjquigley) posted 10 Creative Ways to Teach Vocabulary on which this post is based. It is well worth a read before reading this post. This focus on this post, is reusable. Alex’s post …
Short and to the point. I am thinking a lot about how to teach and pre-teach vocabulary. There is a lot of vocabulary to teach. Here is a nifty little Google Sheet that I designed to help prep vocabulary for …
Vocabulary, language, reading…, all the time I am thinking about how learning happens and how teaching makes learning happen, reading, will be shadow my thinks. This by @ImpactWales flashed past my timeline yet again reminding me of the “literacy is …
Hours invested, reading and watching, to learn that the Simple View of Reading is not simple, and that “Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science.” Here is what Louisa Moats would have us know and do. And if Pamela Snow references her …
Life is short. Vocabulary is long. (And interwoven).* What started out as a line of enquiry, became an edventure, bringing with it new phrases and plenty of new vocabulary: word families, orthography, morpho-phonemic language, The Simple View of Reading (SVR), …
During his podcast with Emily Hanford, Greg fleetingly referenced the “The Simple View of Reading” (Gough & Tunmer 1986). There was a audible acknowledgement of common ground and so the conversation continued unabated. What is “The Simple View of Reading?” I didn’t …
