The Reading Ape
@TheReadingApe
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Certainly ‘won’ in California - that’s why so few of their children can read…
A while back, someone was keen for me to say 'the reading wars are won'. I wasn't comfortable with saying that for a number of reasons, but what do we think reading folk? @Suchmo83 @AlexJQuigley @FunkyPedagogy @ClareSealy @Mr_AlmondED
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He’d have taught phonics…
Today I realised quite a lot of otherwise well-educated people don’t understand what a Marxist is or what a Marxist believes.
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And the Simple View of Reading is nearly 40 years old.
Oh my goodness. This extract was written over 30 years ago... 😢
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RT @ShawnDatchuk: Very fortunate to have @tiffany_peltier lending her expertise! Registration opens soon 🙌🏻
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RT @PamelaSnow2: @KerryGr76867180 @PieCorbett @TheReadingApe Definitely. I wrote a blogpost back in 2020 about the NCTE’s alignment with wh…
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Beware prioritising reading for pleasure over being able to read…a salutary lesson.
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Has any politician done more for reading? Benjamin Franklin perhaps, but it’d be a close run thing…Nick Gibb knighted, CBE for Barton in new year's honours
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‘The crucial issue is that information - knowledge of various sorts- is activated during comprehension; indeed comprehension is a quintessential act of using and acquiring knowledge.’ (Gernsbacher,1997:18)
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Try using your comprehension ‘skills’ on this-
The notion that one can raise reading scores through targeted teaching of specific comprehension skills is FALSE
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Try using your comprehension skills on this-
The notion that one can raise reading scores through targeted teaching of specific comprehension skills is FALSE
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RT @SWLiteracy: @TheReadingApe @susangodsland It's not supported by practice either. In fact, it's absolute hogwash. How many older childre…
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RT @Kathy_Rastle: Longitudinal meta-analysis on Reading Recovery: "most studies show a negligible to negative impact on student learning".…
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And perhaps fronted adverbials are not the golden fleece of writing and may even be too cognitively demanding for younger writers.
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