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Negative framing and No Pens Days

Oct 16, 2014 | Category: literacy

The framing effect is an example of cognitive bias, in which our reactions to a choice depend on whether it is presented as a loss or a gain. Our tendency is to avoid risks when they're framed negativ...

#writing #Mick Waters #Framing effect #No Pens Days #The Communication Trust

Back to school Part 3: Literacy

Aug 21, 2014 | Category: literacy

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#The Secret of Literacy #back to school #Isabelle Beck

A reblog: Teachers: show your working

Aug 02, 2014 | Category: literacy

I know it's pretty cheap to reblog a post which sings your praises (and to be fair, I don't do it much) but this evaluation of a session on The Secret of Literacy I gave at Teach First's Impact Confer...

#Teach First #Maslow

Reading ability: nature or nurture?

Jul 14, 2014 | Category: literacy

For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.Matthew, 13:12 The Matthew Effect has become somethi...

#the Matthew Effect #Daniel Rigney #genetics #Katherine Asbury #Keith Stanovich #Robert Plomin

Revisiting Slow Writing - how slowing writing might speed up thinking

Jun 19, 2014 | Category: literacy

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.Shakespeare It's been a while since I first wrote about Slow Writing and in that time it's rather taken on a life of its own. Today I had the interesting e...

#Slow Writing #The Secret of Literacy

The curse of cursive: Are we fetishising joined up writing?

May 29, 2014 | Category: literacy

Back in 2008 I had for a Head of English position. At one point during the morning, candidates were asked what aspect of English education was most important to them. I honestly have no memory of what...

#Hugo Kerr #cursive #handwriting

Do we value pupils' writing?

Apr 26, 2014 | Category: literacy

Why do we ask pupils to write? There may be very many answers to that question but in my experience of working with teachers and observing lessons, overwhelmingly, teachers ask pupils to write in orde...

#writing

3 reasons why you should read The Secret of Literacy

May 10, 2014 | Category: literacy

This is, unashamedly, a sales pitch for my new book, The Secret of Literacy: making the implicit explicit which should be available in the next few days. Apologies if such blatant self-promotion offen...

#Geoff Barton #The Secret of Literacy

A simple theory about writing

Apr 23, 2014 | Category: literacy

The first thing to say is this is not in any way supposed to be a complete or unified theory - I'm well aware that there are many other important strands to improving pupils' writing and have written...

#writing #Robin Alexander #Debra Myhill

What I've learned about functional grammar

Mar 06, 2014 | Category: literacy

Yesterday I had the good fortune to listen to Professor Mary Schleppegrell from the University of Michigan talk about how functional grammar is having an impact on EFL students in US schools. Ever sin...

#Lee Donaghy #Michael Halliday #functional grammar #John Polias #Mary Schleppegrell #systemic functional linguistics