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Imagine if reshuffles happened in other sectors. Getting called into the Head's office "I know you've only been Head of English for eight months, but I'm moving you to music"

Of all the wonderful things happening in classrooms today, storytime or read-aloud time is possibly the most important. It can't be forgotten about or squeeezed out.

Just read of the sad loss of Sir Tim Brighouse. This list has been on the wall of my class then Office for ever and was and is the most important list I’ve ever had. It’s constantly reminded me that teaching is more than what happens in lessons and that it’s about being human.

I've written quite a few threads about reading over the past few years. Here are some of them. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Watched a beautiful film this afternoon. There was this woman who came back to her home town, a pretty place called 'Teachingham', for the first time in years. She's been away in the city working in a shiny academy chain, went from department head, to assistant principal,.. 1/19

If you're a primary school teacher, there's bound to be something you're not going to be able to fit into the timetable this week. Just don't let it be storytime.

From my experiences in NI there seems to be less understanding of WHY a strong emphasis on phonics instruction is essential from the start. It's not uncommon to see a partial focus on phonics alongside HFW memorisation and leveled readers. Here's why this shouldn't be happening:

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Incredibly useful post

Putting kids into attainment sets can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think that differentiation will help kids to catch up, it usually won't. They are either in those groups forever, or you are just waiting for the day when you stop and face the exact same issues. >>

Many teachers use ‘cold calling’ as a way to hear from students who don’t speak up voluntarily in class. And as referenced by @AceThatTest, there is evidence that cold calling could increase girls’ participation in the classroom. Yet we know from our oracy surveys, completed by

🧵Oracy. One of the three prime areas in EYFS is communication and language. It's a prime area because it's fundamental to success both academically and generally. This doesn't diminish as children move through key stages.

There are two options here: either the authors don't know what reading teaching currently looks like in schools, or they do know, and they are ignoring this to advance an anti-phonics agenda. >>

I've always been a Labour supporter. I grew up in the North East in the 1980s in a single parent family. When I started teaching in 1995, things were awful at the back end of the last lengthy period of Conservative government. And then 1997 happened and it was amazing.

Very excited to hear there’s a second book!

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, who blamed parents of disabled children for the state of the SEND system, loses her seat. Thank you voters of Chichester

If a company tells you that they can diagnose pupils' individual barriers to reading development via question-level analysis of a standardised comprehension assessment (computer-based or otherwise), they are almost certainly selling you snake oil. 🧵🪡

So sad for our children. Witnessing bombs & bricks alike being thrown on innocents by hate-filled racist grown-ups. Thank you to the mum who sent me this message. Am giving away 5 sets of The Boy & Lion in response. Hashtag #RoarAgainstRacism below by 12pm Saturday. UK onlyX

Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map. The Reading Map - A Primer youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?si… via YouTube

Here's a little experiment for you to try that relates to Teaching & Learning and professional development. First, read the scenario below. Second, before hitting the following post in the thread, try and predict "what would happen next in this lesson" Scenario: