Andy Tharby

Apr 8 201808/04/2018

Vocabulary Development Reading List

Closing The Vocabulary Gap / By Alex Quigley / 5 minutes of reading

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 to the stark realisation that I didn’t know enough about how children not only learnt to read, but went on to read to …

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Aug 29 201502/03/2017

Teaching English: Online Reading & Resources

Uncategorized / By Alex Quigley / 5 minutes of reading

English teachers are a privileged lot. Of course, there is the poetry, the novels, the discussion, debate, philosophy, the odd spelling, the plays, the spell-binding craft of writing and the essential power of reading. Well, not only all that stuff – we also have some great online resources and bloggers. This compilation is an updated …

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Robert Coe @profcoe ·

This is great from ⁦@Martell_Tom⁩ ⁦@ShottonResearch⁩ ⁦@LouiseQuinn81⁩
Peer tutoring was one of the first EEF trials, mainly because we thought it was such a sure thing.

Includes a shout-out for my mentor, Carol Fitz-Gibbon https://researchschool.org.uk/shottonhall/news/looking-again-at-the-evidence-for-peer-tutoring

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Ben Rogers 🦄 @benrogersedu ·

My colleagues are using British Sign Language to teach science vocabulary - inclusive and very effective for all pupils: https://readingforlearning.org/2023/02/04/british-sign-language-and-science-vocabulary-for-all-pupils/

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley ·

A compelling set of challenges and prompts when it comes to addressing workload in schools by @joe__kirby

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