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Webinar: Five things every teacher needs to know about writing

Jun 20, 2020 | Category: Webinars

Last Thursday's inaugural webinar, 'Five things every teacher needs to know about reading,' was, on the whole, a great success. We sold out 1000 tickets and about 500 people showed up on the night. Th...

#writing #Webinars

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

Sep 01, 2016 | Category: training

Academic success is dependent on students being able to communicate their understanding of a subject and, sooner or later, that communication will be written. For many secondary teachers writing is so...

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The Capital Letter Problem - Part 1

Aug 26, 2016 | Category: writing

I have almost never met a secondary age child who doesn't conceptually understand how to use a capital letter.* But, you'd never know. Students regularly hand in work liberally sprinkled with missing...

#writing #working memory #capital letters

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

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...

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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

The mathematics of writing

Oct 30, 2012 | Category: English

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns… The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit t...

#Phil Beadle #grammar #writing #Dancing About Architecture #maths #Michael Swann

The Matthew Effect - why literacy is so important

Sep 30, 2012 | Category: learning

Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.Matthew 13:12 In the world of the 2012 Ofsted framework very few sch...

#Ofsted #literacy #spelling #Reading #writing #Geoff Barton #the Matthew Effect

Slow Writing: how slowing down can improve your writing

May 12, 2012 | Category: English

NB - my latest thinking on Slow Writing can be found here.Exam season is nearly upon us and English departments across the land will be gearing up to the Herculean labour of training students to churn...

#AQA #Slow Writing #writing