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I've made a blog-post where all the resources I've shared - from science curriculum documents to tier two vocabulary lists - can be downloaded. Help yourself! primarycolour.home.blog/2019/11/02/one…
Christopher Such
@Suchmo83
Experienced primary teacher, school leader and author.
Feel free to DM if you are looking for professional development relating to reading.
Feel free to DM if you are looking for professional development relating to reading.
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I value Neil's expertise as highly as anyone in primary education.
Primary schools looking for support should check this out. ⬇️
Primary schools looking for support should check this out. ⬇️
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Will I turn it into a viable business? Who knows? But I'd rather try than wonder what might have happened.
Enacture starts trading on 1 January 2027. The website is live now, and I'd love you to have a look:
enacture.co.uk
Here's to giving it a go.
Arguably the oddest part of the debate around oracy is that it was coined as a word to mirror 'literacy', but spoken language abilities have since been subsumed into definitions of literacy in education, making one of the two terms redundant.
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Teachers shouldn't tell kids that letters *say* sounds.
This is potentially confusing because it is a secondary use of a common verb that metaphorically implies an active role for inanimate objects.
Instead, let's tell children that letters *spell* sounds.
Wait...
This is potentially confusing because it is a secondary use of a common verb that metaphorically implies an active role for inanimate objects.
Instead, let's tell children that letters *spell* sounds.
Wait...
I have had the privilege of reading this already. It takes a complex subject and distils it expertly, making it immediately useful to anyone who works in a school. ⬇️
My new book, Building Belonging in Schools, is out next month.
It’s available for pre-order now.
I’m convinced that we can really shift the experience that kids have in schools, and make them places where they love to go.
This book is my attempt to set out how.View quoted post on X
