Sunday, 9 December 2018

How do we create a writing-friendly environment?

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Writing will not flourish unless we create a writing-friendly environment. The main ways we can do this is through publication and performan...

In support of today's demonstration

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We know that racism, fascism, antisemitism and islamophobia are on the move, gathering support. Even worse, there are people in positions of...
Friday, 7 December 2018

SPaG 2018 - analysed question by question. What's wrong with it?

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Here (below) are some more detailed comments on the 2018 SPaG paper. They are follow-up to the previous blog which makes more general point...
Thursday, 6 December 2018

Last summer's SPaG paper (2018) - what's wrong?

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I've been looking at last summer's KS2 SPaG paper and the gov.uk  glossary which is meant to be the guide that teachers use in ord...
Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Testing, testing, don't question the testing.

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There is testing at KS1 (6 and 7 year olds) and at KS 2 (10 and 11 year olds). There may well be 'Baseline testing' for four year o...
Sunday, 25 November 2018

'Genealogy' - you say 'tomato', I say 'tomato'. Rules and variations in English.

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I asked on twitter how people pronounce 'genealogy'. Do people pronounce the middle syllable like the name 'Al' or as 'o...

How to do some things that go towards helping children 'own' literacy

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I tend to frame my talks about literacy, reading for pleasure, poetry and the like around the idea of 'how to help children think and kn...