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Illustrated by Ronald Searle, in Life Magazine, 1960. Reading a classic novella like ‘A Christmas Carol’ is tricky for our teenage students. Yes, they have likely heard of Scrooge and seen …

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In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley24/09/20151 Comment

Today Nicky Morgan announced her ‘rallying cry’ to make children in this country “become the best readers in Europe”. Flanked by comic-celebrity wordsmith David Walliams, she has launched salvos at the publishing …

Giles Martin@mashupmartin·

I don’t normally share anything personal but this my dad from a while back explaining to my daughter he signed the Beatles. Ordinary people do extraordinary things. Great decisions are made for the simplest reasons. “I figured if I like them this much other people might too” ❤️

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Jon Severs@jon_severs·

Playing #Wordle ? Should you be playing it with kids in classrooms, too? @KateParkerTes spoke to @AlexJQuigley and finds games like this may have some use in schools

https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/secondary/do-vocabulary-games-boost-literacy

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Durrington Research School @DurringResearch·

NEW: @FH_FranHaynes shares how we are helping students understand word morphology - a key approach from the @EducEndowFoundn secondary literacy guidance report.

https://classteaching.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/planting-the-roots-for-vocabulary-growth/

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I am a blogger and the proud author of ‘Closing the Reading Gap’, ‘Closing the Writing Gap’, and ‘The Confident Teacher’.

After over 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 an educational charity, 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.

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