Working with RememberMore, focusing on the pupils encoding and use of new vocabulary and reading ‘Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol,’ I have been reviewing the test-enhanced learning routines for acquiring the copious amounts of new vocabulary and powerful words …
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 …
Looking for giants is part 2 in an edventure investigating one aspect of literacy (speaking, listening, reading and writing) – vocabulary. The exposure to, the acquisition and retention of, and teaching of vocabulary (I am still thinking that teaching is …
It was, then headteacher, Geoff Barton’s presentation back in 2014 “The Habits of Literacy” that first exposed the stark inequalities of poor literacy to me. It was followed up by his book – Don’t Call it Literacy!: What every teacher …
I will keep this simple, here are my top five reasons to get involved with Word Mania 2017 (WM) and to review Literacy Planet (LP). See for yourself – play Word Mania. Demo at the bottom of the page. …
Leading learning #LL14 was a positive experience for me personally. In addition to the mini-conference, the opportunity to see how another school starts its day, the expectations of students, how learning looks and feels (albeit fleeting) and the opportunity to …
Take an unloved, unnoticed space. Some colourful laminated subject key words and a can of carpet adhesive and you have a guerrilla display. Week one, first flight. Week two second flight. Week three? We are not sure if less is …
