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Literacy empowers (Pt3): Teaching oracy
This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in June 2017. You can read the original version on the SecEd website here. You can read more of my monthly columns for SecEd here. This is part three of a 5-part series. Read parts one and two first. So far in this series, I have madeContinue… Read more
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Pass on the power of reading (Part One)
This is an abridged version of a keynote speech Matt gave at the Closing the Literacy Gap Conference in June 2017. This is part one of two… Recently, I had the pleasure of giving the keynote speech at the Closing The Literacy Gap Conference, which was held at the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford.Continue… Read more
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Literacy empowers (Pt2): Why every teacher is a teacher of literacy
This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in June 2017. You can read the original version on the SecEd website here. You can read more of my monthly columns for SecEd here. Last time I made the case for literacy as a cross-curricular concern, arguing – as did George Sampson in 1922 – thatContinue… Read more
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Literacy empowers (Pt1): Why every teacher is a teacher of literacy
This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in June 2017. You can read the original version on the SecEd website here. You can read more of my monthly columns for SecEd here. Literacy empowers. Y Kassam’s 1994 paper Who Benefits from Illiteracy? argues that: “To be literate is to gain a voice and toContinue… Read more
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Closing the literacy gap
I have the privilege of speaking at the Reading Matters ‘Closing the Literacy Gap’ conference in Bradford on 29 June. Ahead of that event, and to whet your appetite, I’d like to share some strategies for closing the gap between our word-rich and word-poor pupils so that all of them – irrespective of their startingContinue… Read more
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When is revision not revision?
This article was written for The Association of Colleges’ website to promote my workshop in London in April. I have the pleasure of delivering a workshop for AoC Create in London in April on the subject of teaching English re-sits at post-16. According to Ofsted, “Too much teaching in [post-16] English is not goodContinue… Read more
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Developing classroom practice
This article was written for Creative Education to promote my speech at their national Teaching and Learning conference in March 2017. Think of something you’re good at. How did you become good at it? How do you know you’re good at it – on what evidence is your judgment based? Now think of something you’re notContinue… Read more
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The importance of reading fluency (Part 2)
This is part two of a 2-part article on reading fluency. To read part one, click here. In part one of this article, I explained the importance of fluency – that is to say, the ability to read text quickly and accurately, adopting the appropriate intonation. Fluency, I said, requires a degree of background knowledge about a text,Continue… Read more
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The importance of reading fluency (Part 1)
I’ve recently discovered Instapaper, an app which collates reading material – newspaper articles and webpages, say – and converts them into audio so that I can listen to them on my daily dog walks. There’s never enough time in the day. My backlog of reading material just gets longer and longer, and my sense ofContinue… Read more
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What are the six conditions for learning?
This article was written for SecEd magazine’s NQT special supplement and first published in November 2016. You can read the original version on the SecEd website here. You can download the full 8-page supplement here. You can read more of my monthly columns for SecEd here. Occasionally, on my teacher-training courses and when the mood takes me, I askContinue… Read more
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Libraries gave us power…
The children’s laureate Chris Riddell – aided and abetted by eight other children’s authors including the former laureates Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Quentin Blake – has called upon the education secretary, Justine Greening, to help preserve school libraries. Riddell argues – in an open letter to Greening – that many school libraries lack sufficientContinue… Read more
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La rentrée
The French have a term for it: la rentrée. If you ever visit France in August you’ll probably find it closed. Schools and clubs are what they call en congé; the government is in recess; and many businesses will have shut down for the summer too. As colleagues, family members and friends go their separateContinue… Read more
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