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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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Weekend post...

What is your school literacy focus: reading, vocabulary, structured talk, or writing?

NEW POST: ‘Covid-19 and the Literacy ‘Matthew Effect’

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/09/covid-19-and-the-literacy-matthew-effect/

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A comprehensive and helpful account of explicit instruction from @Tom_Needham_.

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Heard from so many school leaders about this today: a critical lack of testing for teachers and pupils...

‘BBC News - Heads warn of teacher shortages without Covid tests’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-54152867

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and 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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