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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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Working Words into Writing

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley05/12/20201 Comment

What connections can you make between these words? Are there any patterns of meaning or word families you notice? Could you even detect the author who penned these words? These disembodied words …

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We are working with EEF to find out much more about what’s happening during home learning.
We mustn’t spend the next ten years guessing what was happening, or how parents felt. Please get your primary school involved if you can. https://twitter.com/EducEndowFoundn/status/1353962134535876609

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I wish I’d thought hard about this...about 20 years ago!

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James Flynn: philosopher who made a major IQ discovery, explained it by a feature of modernity, defended those he disagreed with, championed liberal ideals, dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/science/james-r-flynn-dead.html?smid=tw-share

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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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