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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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5 Vocabulary Teaching Myths

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley21/04/20182 Comments

Words are all around us. They are legion, ubiquitous and omnipresent in our daily lives. They live in families, possess histories, slide and break into parts, and connect across worlds, separating and …

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Why Closing the Word Gap Matters

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As a teacher who writes about the importance of literacy and vocabulary – and one who works with countless teachers across the country – I find myself talking repeatedly about the issue …

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Vocabulary Knowledge and the ‘Frayer Model’

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley15/04/20189 Comments

The ‘Frayer model‘ is a long-standing graphic organiser that has been deployed in classrooms with success for decades (it was first conceived Dorothy Frayer and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin). …

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Literacy is dead…long live ‘disciplinary literacy’!

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley14/04/20187 Comments

‘‘We know too much to say we know too little, and we know too little to say that we know enough. Indeed, language is difficult to put into words.’’  Baumann, J. F. …

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6 Useful Vocabulary Websites

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley11/04/20182 Comments

The web is full of websites on vocabulary: good, bad and ugly. Here are six of my favourite free vocabulary websites that I think are useful for teachers and students alike:   …

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Vocabulary Development Reading List

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley08/04/20181 Comment

For a long time now I have been reading about vocabulary development. After teaching English Language and English Literature for over a decade and a half (including child language acquisition), I came …

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Closing the Vocabulary Gap Resources

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley07/04/20187 Comments

So I *might* have mentioned this already, but I have gone and written a book – published officially this Friday! ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’ has proven a labour of love for the …

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7 Strategies to Explore Unfamiliar Vocabulary

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley07/04/20185 Comments

A 10-year-old child who is a good reader will encounter something like 1 million words a year (around 12 novels), but crucially, approximately 20,000 of those words will prove unfamiliar (Oakhill et …

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‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’ Discount!

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley21/03/2018Leave a Comment

In a couple of weeks, my new book, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap‘, is released. Happily, I wanted to alert those people who may be interested in picking up the book that there …

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The ‘Reading Gap’ between Primary and Secondary School

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley18/03/20189 Comments

A lot of attention is rightly devoted by schools to address primary to secondary ‘transition’. We know that as children move schools it can prove a difficult move emotionally. Therefore, our focus, …

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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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