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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources / October 20, 2018

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    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Successful Learning by Stealth

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley16/05/20153 Comments

What does this lovely old lady reveal positive messages about student success? Why is her story potentially so powerful? Nola Ochs is a special lady. So special she appears in the Guinness …

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Donating some grub for ⁦@NHSuk⁩ York Frontline Nurses & Medical Staff,all ready for collection!!Keep up the fantastic work you are all doing!We all appreciate it,thank you from everyone in the UK!Hopefully this will boost morale& possibly the waistline! ⁦@andrewpern⁩

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Vocabulary at age 2 predicts reading comprehension at 9yrs and 12yrs. We need to actively teach vocabulary - it can’t be incidental, says Rhona Stainthorp #LiteracyConf

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JNorthcroftJonathan Northcroft@JNorthcroft·

What happened to "this means more?"

By taking taxpayers' money to furlough staff, Liverpool have acted just like any other profits-first business.

Dispiriting stuff.

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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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