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How to read creatively: noticing in English

Oct 03, 2020 | Category: English

… languages recognized, not as the means of contemporary communication but as investments in thought and records of perceptions and analogical understandings; literatures recognized as the contemplati...

#English #Literature #Reading #Michael Oakeshott #Andrew Bennett #Nicholas Royce #Ralph Waldo Emerson

Q&A: Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading

Jun 21, 2020 | Category: reading

If you missed it, here's a link to the presentation I gave in my webinar on Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading.There were a number of question that I didn't have time to answer duri...

#Reading

Why we need to read aloud

May 27, 2020 | Category: reading

Here is the recording of webinar I gave for #LDeduchat this week on 'Why we need to read aloud'. The prerecorded presentation lasts for about 25 mins with the rest of the time given over to Q&A.If you...

#Reading #following along

Why do some children struggle with reading?

Sep 20, 2018 | Category: literacy

[caption id="attachment_66637" align="alignleft" width="300"] Janet and bloody John![/caption]When I was about 7, my primary school teacher told my parents that I would probably never learn to read. A...

#Reading #dyslexia

Practice vs. talent: Five principles for effective teaching

May 06, 2017 | Category: Featured

Are we the way we are because of our natures or is talent just the product of hard work? Which matters more natural ability of practice?A few years ago my mother reminded me of my struggles with learn...

#Reading #deliberate practice #personality #heritability

Is our behaviour a choice?

Sep 29, 2016 | Category: behaviour

Arguments about free will date back to ancient Greece, but the scientific consensus now tends towards the belief that free will is an illusion. It's become an article of faith in the life sciences tha...

#behaviour #Reading #free will

Do we teach children to love reading? Part 1

Sep 12, 2016 | Category: reading

This sounds like a really obvious question but, after listening to Frank Furedi at researchED on Saturday and subsequently reading his book, The Power of Reading: from Socrates to Twitter, I've realis...

#Reading #researchED #Frank Furedi #instrumentalism

5 things every new (secondary) teacher should know about reading

Aug 31, 2016 | Category: training

Reading's a funny old business. Generally, secondary school teachers expect kids to come with a pre-loaded reading module. If they have it, all well and good. If they don't, we're stuffed. Luckily, t...

#Reading

What every teacher needs to know about... students who leave secondary school unable to read

Apr 25, 2016 | Category: reading

Many thanks to the good folks at Teach Secondary magazine for publishing yet another of my incoherent rants. This time I set my sights on the lamentable and inexcusable failure of secondary schools...

#Reading #Teach Secondary

Better analysis: seeing the wood AND the trees

Nov 03, 2013 | Category: literacy

I've been exploring better ways to teach analysis and evaluation for some time now. A few years ago I stumbled on the idea of zooming in and out which has gone viral and made its way into the teaching...

#John Hattie #Reading #zooming in and out #De La Paz and Felton