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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

    We are ‘Doing Curriculum’ – so what are we stopping?

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  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

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  • Uncategorized / January 20, 2019

    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources / October 20, 2018

    Vocabulary Clinic

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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The Magic of the Classroom

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley06/03/2021Leave a Comment

The school classroom is an amazing place. It is simultaneously filled with dazzling complexity and profound simplicity. It is at once driven by reassuring routines and constant surprises. As all pupils return …

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Should we worry about handwriting?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley23/01/202114 Comments

My nine-year old boy, Noah, has been working hard on his handwriting this week.  He fizzes with ideas when he writes, but most often his handwriting and his spelling simply cannot keep …

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Flipping Fronted Adverbials

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley18/01/20214 Comments

Do you know your fronted adverbials from your prepositional phrases? As another week of home schooling commences, many parents, and teachers, are faced with tricky questions about grammar. It inspires feisty debate …

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Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy

In Closing the Reading Gap, Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley16/01/20218 Comments

When I started teaching nearly two decades ago, I was a teacher of reading, writing, vocabulary, academic talk, and more. The problem was that I could do reading and writing, but I …

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Working Words into Writing

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley05/12/20201 Comment

What connections can you make between these words? Are there any patterns of meaning or word families you notice? Could you even detect the author who penned these words? These disembodied words …

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Academic Vocabulary and Schema Building

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley07/11/20206 Comments

Every teacher recognises the vital role of academic vocabulary to access the school curriculum and go onto succeed. Put simply, the more words you know, the further you’ll go. Words are crucial …

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Do We Need to Sort Out Silent Reading?

In Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley31/10/20204 Comments

DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) or ERIC (Everyone Reads in Class) are very common approaches to independent reading that occur each week in countless schools. They are part of the fabric of …

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Is it time to KO the Knowledge Organiser?

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley24/10/20207 Comments

What if tools commonly used in the classroom threaten to inhibit the learning they were developed to support? Too often, a well-meaning teaching tool can get detached from the thinking which made …

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Covid-19 and the Literacy ‘Matthew Effect’

In Closing the Reading Gap, Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley13/09/20201 Comment

“For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Matthew, 25:29 Six …

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What do teachers really care about?

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley06/09/20203 Comments

“You know, when you find yourself having to raise your voice, and your heart starts pounding, and you start realizing that things are not going the way you had planned, it’s a …

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Engineering Success. A positive alternative to generic mindset messaging https://teacherhead.com/2019/06/01/engineering-success-a-positive-alternative-to-generic-mindset-messaging/

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There is consistent evidence now of the crucial role of turn-taking and early vocabulary development. Rich early language is so crucial.

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New meta-analysis on parental speech & child language (aka 30 million word gap) concludes that complexity (syntactic variety & vocab diversity) is a better predictor than word volume ($) https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13508?campaign=wolearlyview

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  • The Magic of the Classroom 06/03/2021
  • Should we worry about handwriting? 23/01/2021
  • Flipping Fronted Adverbials 18/01/2021
  • Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy 16/01/2021
  • Working Words into Writing 05/12/2020

Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I write this blog in a personal capacity.

After fifteen years in the classroom, I now support the cause of education from the other side the school gates. For most of the week I work for the EEF, as National Content Manager, supporting teachers and school leaders to access research evidence.

Additionally, I write edubooks and offer consultancy. Also, I am very lucky to have a column for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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