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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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Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy

In Closing the Reading Gap, Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley16/01/20217 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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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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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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5 Helpful Websites on Reading for Teachers

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There are vast array of brilliant websites about reading that would help teachers of all stripes in their daily work. Some cover useful reading materials, whereas others dig into the science of …

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Reading on Screen: A Warning!

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Since the dawn of the internet and our ability to read on-screen, people have bemoaned its negative impact on learning. But is reading on screen any different to reading a traditional book? …

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The Promise and Perils of ‘Book Gifting’

In Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley14/06/2020Leave a Comment

You can watch my short video on book gifting on my YouTube page, ‘Exploring Evidence in Education‘: If you cannot read, you cannot access the school curriculum and so much more beyond. …

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Closing the Reading Gap: ResearchED Home

In Closing the Reading Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley22/05/2020Leave a Comment

On the 22nd of May, I had the great pleasure to join the researchEd Home gang to talk ‘Closing the Reading Gap (in the time of Coronavirus)’. A couple of years ago, …

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5 Recent Articles on the Reading Gap

In Closing the Reading Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley07/05/20202 Comments

Over the past couple of months, I was asked to write about reading given interest in my new ‘reading gap’ book. Below is a list of the articles you can access online, …

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Tricky Texts and the ‘Arduous Eight’

In Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley25/04/2020Leave a Comment

When it comes to reading, teachers are a little like Goldilocks. When it comes to spotting difficult texts – whether it is the class reader in year 5, or a maths word …

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Introducing ‘Closing the Reading Gap’

In Closing the Reading Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley08/04/20207 Comments

Nearly two years ago, I began researching and writing ‘Closing the Reading Gap’. After writing my book on vocabulary, I knew that reading was the natural next step. I knew that every …

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I think the systematic review on teacher professional development mentioned here, and the guidance report running alongside it, will prove a really valuable support for schools.

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'Flipping Fronted Adverbials'

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All of a sudden, the concept made perfect sense. Excitedly, he shared the post for others to read. Before long, the fuss subsided. Decidedly unimpressed, the children just got on with it. https://twitter.com/HuntingEnglish/status/1351221431296733193

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  • Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy 16/01/2021
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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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