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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 19, 2018

    Why Closing the Word Gap Matters

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    Vocabulary Knowledge and the ‘Frayer Model’

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 14, 2018

    Literacy is dead…long live ‘disciplinary literacy’!

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 11, 2018

    6 Useful Vocabulary Websites

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    Vocabulary Development Reading List

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    7 Strategies to Explore Unfamiliar Vocabulary

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Telling Stories about Words

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley17/03/20184 Comments

“Stories are psychologically privileged in the human mind.” Daniel Willingham The mind thinks and remembers in stories. It is part of the architecture of human memory and our human experience. …

Alex Quigley

I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English as well writing edubooks and articles for TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

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  • 6 Useful Vocabulary Websites 11/04/2018

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PsychologicianElliot Berkman@Psychologician·

The great @sjblakemore on teen risk taking as a normative shift in priorities: "For #adolescents, the social #risk of being rejected by peers outweighs other potentially negative outcomes of decisions" YES https://t.co/lzzamDMNNq

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Our practitioner enquiry evening event is now fully booked, but there are still spaces available in the afternoon for 'Developing a Research Engaged Approach', 3.00 – 4.30pm, University of Strathclyde, Wed 2nd May, 2018 as part of Engage with Strathclyde https://t.co/m9GZTR0KcO

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'This much I know about…metacognition and self-regulation' - ahead of the publication on Friday of our guidance report on the topic, @johntomsett's fishing-inspired blog is worth a read: https://t.co/9Pa8b6XHEL

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Alex Quigley

I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English, as well as writing edubooks and articles for 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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