28/11/2023
I did something silly - so unlike me!
I wrote two more books this year, then forgot to tell you all about them 🤦‍♀️. So here they are!
Assessing Reading and Spelling: For teaching structured literacy
Assessing Reading and Spelling: For teaching structured literacy
28/11/2023
I did something silly - so unlike me!
I wrote two more books this year, then forgot to tell you all about them 🤦‍♀️. So here they are!
How to Teach Every Spelling Pattern Ever: The pal to The Ultimate Scope and Sequence
How to Teach Every Spelling Pattern Ever: The pal to The Ultimate Scope and Sequence
14/11/2023
Great article about the skills vse knowledge debate.
I would add to this that "these kinds of vague statements actively prevent teachers designing activities that will help students learn" by forcing us to combine far too many required knowledge sets that would take much longer than the length of the assessment tasks to build in any meaningful way, therefore setting students and teachers up to fail.
https://substack.nomoremarking.com/p/skills-vs-knowledge-13-years-on?fbclid=IwAR2vgvWblhLO-3bZ4XJfm0zizkXqeenPRHJZa7DeVtgwMuwAia1hLQNom-A
Skills vs knowledge, 13 years on
What can we learn from widespread dissatisfaction with the Curriculum for Excellence?
12/01/2023
I finally did it - then forgot to post it here!! I got my first book published in the first 3 weeks of summer holiday. I'm pretty happy with myself, I gotta say!
I wrote something I hope will be an incredibly useful resource for you on a daily basis - a comprehensive scope and sequence with 230 differentiated words lists to use for your spelling and reading teaching.
Hope you love it!
The Ultimate Scope and Sequence: For Teaching Structured Literacy
The Ultimate Scope and Sequence: For Teaching Structured Literacy
08/12/2022
Hi all! It's been more than a while!
How is everyone?
What's new for you in 2022?
30/04/2020
I LOVE DR Seuss, and this is such a fun take on The Lorax!
THE LORAX | Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre Beats
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16/04/2020
With all this amazing free and very cheap PD going around, there really is no excuse for returning to school anything other than an expert in the science of reading!
Only $10 USD donation required for this fantastic symposium. Watch live or order replay video.
The Reading League Symposium: We're All In This Together
Join The Reading League for our spring virtual symposium! Like all Reading League events, we are focused on building our collective knowledge base and clearing the “research to practice” pipeline by bringing you meaningful and motivating ideas and evidence-based practices that will make a differ...
01/04/2020
A stunningly efficient phonemic awareness lesson. These kiddos have some serious automatic, instant, effortless recall going on.
Explicit Phonemic Awareness Instruction: A Second Grade Lesson
In this lesson second grade teacher, Lauren Reynolds and her students engage in direct, explicit, literacy instruction and repeated practice of phonemic awar...
01/04/2020
Last chance to jump in on free homeschool help sessions!
Here at 9am QLD time tomorrow.
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30/03/2020
Need to keep the kids occupied and active?
P.E with Joe | Monday 30th March 2020
Day 6 of my 9am daily workouts
30/03/2020
Free homeschool help here at 8am QLD time today.
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