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Mar 17 201816/03/2018

Telling Stories about Words

Closing The Vocabulary Gap / By Alex Quigley / 4 minutes of reading

“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. Given it is so rooted in how we think, storytelling proves vital to learning and is useful in all sorts of ways in the classroom. …

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Apr 1 201721/12/2021

Spelling Test Support – Advice for Parents (and Teachers)

Uncategorized, Writing Gap / By Alex Quigley / 5 minutes of reading

It is an act repeated the world over: children trundle home with their spelling lists to learn and parents dutifully help them prepare for the dreaded spelling test at the end of the week. I’m father to a young daughter who is very intent on doing well in such spelling tests, but who can sometimes …

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Kirsten Mould @kirsten_mould ·

A rich collection of reading for those planning school transitions. Thanks @AlexJQuigley Lots to consider to get the ‘big jump’ right. https://twitter.com/AlexJQuigley/status/1619766601376743428

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‘Adaptive Teaching & Vocabulary Instruction’

“With respect to classroom teaching, the term micro-adaptation might be defined as continually assessing and learning as one teaches—thought and action intertwined.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2023/02/adaptive-teaching-and-vocabulary-instruction/

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‘Top 10 Revision Strategies’

“…subject teachers need to explicitly teach the strategy, model it, & offer guided practice before we expect our students to use them effectively.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2018/01/top-10-revision-strategies/

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