THREAD. This is Clive. Clive grows fruit, vegetables, and flowers for local markets. This is Clive’s farm. Clive has lived here his whole life.

Education Minister Michelle McIlveen met with Geraldine McGaughey and Shirley Whyte from Assistance Dogs NI to discuss the positive difference canine therapy can make to the emotional wellbeing of children and young people in educational settings

☀️That's a day for 🌭! And why not "top" them off with a #tasteofhome 😋 Smoky Bacon Fixings 🙌 #taytohappy #summer #BBQ

Back in 2019 I met lovely Echo the therapy dog when he began work in ⁦St.Gerard's Belfast⁩ Today I was back and Echo is fully grown, still lovely and still hard at work! I’ll have a report on some brilliant new work by the pupils there for ⁦BBC News NI⁩ soon! #education

📚 World Book Day 📚 Today our boys and girls celebrated our love of reading with some wonderful costumes and activities. Big thanks to Dave and the gang at @NOALIBISBOOKS for ensuring every child went home with their own book today 💫

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Blog post 3 of 3 on Explicit Spelling Instruction is live! It covers a lot of ground (I bit off more than I could chew trying to get so much into one post 😬😅) but, hopefully, it has a lot to offer. RTs appreciated 🙌 ryonleyshon.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/ali…

I am going to post out a copy of these Micro:bit Educational Foundation game worksheets from my British Council Algeria workshops to 5 people that retweet this or new followers! I will use a micro:bit to choose at random 😀🎮🕹️🚗👾

Fresh FREE resources added to the folder! These focus on reinforcing some of the more complex consonant sound-spelling correspondences, encouraging children to hone in on positional orthographic tendencies (which spelling is more likely where). Samples of new content in thread👇

The format is the same as with the previous resources I’ve shared (remember - using familiar routines and resources lowers cognitive load allowing for more focus on the task itself), starting with grapheme-focused sheets:

Then, there are sound sort activities (most with red herring ‘imposters’ - which share the grapheme but not the phoneme -to ensure children are engaging with the phonology as well as the orthography) to help children notice positional orthographic tendencies:

After that, you will find context-based, missing word activities to ensure that meaning is being connected to the orthography and phonology, whilst again allowing more practise opportunities with spellings:

Children will hopefully have internalised any useful orthographic tendencies and had enough practise with spellings to be able to recall the focus grapheme for a selection of the spellings in isolation with this final activity (I get children to check, cover and write here too):

Here’s the link to these and all the rest of the resources: x.com/ryonwleyshon/s… (I’ve only made these today - yes they took ALL day 🙃😅 - so they are untested and unchecked at this stage. Please let me know if you spot any errors!)