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Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
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Thursday, 20 August 2026

My mother's last words, my father's thoughts

Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Further evidence on why the 'fronted adverbial' is grammatical nonsense

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Learning how to write and speak: 'how we break things down' may not always be the best way to 'build things up'

Monday, 14 July 2025

A brand new document on writing in primary schools, and they didn't ask writers to help them! Lols

Sunday, 13 July 2025

How do you become 'fluent' at reading? Ruth Miskin knows.

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Writing Framework: no poetry? no drama? Why not?

New Writing Framework - sentences. Not.

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

The New Writing Framework - first thoughts

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Why do children not like writing (see the recent report from the National Literacy Trust)

Friday, 6 June 2025

Before Gove, Blunkett and Baker, there was no good research on the teaching of English...WHAT?!

Monday, 2 June 2025

Bernard Newsome and this question: What else is writing other than 'grammar'?

Sunday, 1 June 2025

10 points about the primary school grammar test .

Saturday, 31 May 2025

This year's grammar test for 10 and 11 year olds in England: my thoughts on the questions

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