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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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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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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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6 Excellent Etymologies

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley07/06/20202 Comments

When you explore the history and roots of a word – the etymology – you draw upon a rich story that can unlock understanding for our pupils in science, maths, geography, and …

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‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley07/03/20207 Comments

“We did vocabulary last year.” I have the privilege to speak to lots of teachers and school leaders about vocabulary, accessing the school curriculum, along with the challenges of making a difference …

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Vocabulary Clinic

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources by Alex Quigley20/10/20183 Comments

This academic year, over at Teach Secondary, I have the great pleasure of sharing a ‘Vocabulary Clinic’ article each month. It is a quick burst of vocabulary ideas and insights. You can find …

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More than Just ‘Word Walls’

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley20/10/20181 Comment

Schools can be hectic places and the work of a teachers is seldom ‘done’. When faced with the job of a challenging new curriculum, particularly for our more disadvantaged pupils, tackling such …

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Spelling: Avoiding Ignorance and Negligence

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley13/05/20182 Comments

A version of this article was originally published in the excellent ‘Teach Secondary‘ magazine – you can subscribe HERE. It is well worth a read!   Controversies and complaints about spelling are …

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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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