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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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The Difference Engine

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley21/11/2015Leave a Comment

  (Babbage’s ‘The Difference Engine No. 1’, 1832, image via Science Museum) Charles Babbage is a name too few people remember, but in many ways his brilliant ideas have helped shape our …

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NEW BLOG from EEF Literacy specialist and English Lead, @bilton_caroline, on developing children's language skills at home.

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Apple keep on telling me to take a minute out to breathe, and go and exercise, just as Outlook alerts me about my next Teams meeting. I feel like a helpless pawn in the globo-capitalist-tech-wars.

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“An appreciation of morphology should be taught from the earliest stages of reading instruction to early adolescence.”

‘The relations between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in beginner readers to young adolescents’ ⁦@emljames⁩ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9817.12316

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I write this blog in a personal capacity.

After 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 the EEF, as National Content Manager, 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.

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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