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I have two copies of Primary Reading Simplified to **give away**.
Simply retweet this tweet and/or reply with the name of a children's book that you think more teachers should know about.
One winner will be chosen from the replies and one winner from the retweets on 30/08/26.
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🎉 Steplab Summer Reads - Giveaway #3
Win:
📖 The Classroom Management Handbook by @ollie_lovell
📚 Steplab whitepapers
☕ Steplab mug
🖊️ Notepad & pen
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1️⃣ Follow us
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Enter by 9:00am (GMT) Friday 7 August. Winner announced the same day.
Good luck!
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One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday.
These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.
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In 1913, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a profoundly moving letter to a friend who was grieving for her brother.
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I have two copies of The Visualiser Handbook to give away.
This is for busy teachers who need concise clarity to make live modelling an effect part of their practice ASAP.
To enter, follow, like and retweet this post and I will draw winners at random on the 18th July.
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“School is not meant to reflect back a child’s existing world. It is meant to offer new worlds. It is meant to take the child by the hand and lead them to places they never knew existed, places beyond their postcode, places they have every right to belong.”
Spot on. 👏
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🧵 We’ve all heard it: the more you know, the easier it is to learn. But a recent experimental study puts that claim to the test and the results aren’t what you’d expect. researchgate.net/publication…
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You could ban smartphones for under 16s.
It’s something I can’t help but feel we will look back on as ‘crazy we did this so late’.
The challenges raised by Adolescence aren't something we can simply legislate for — if I could pull a lever to solve it, I would.
It's only by listening and learning from the experiences of young people and charities that we can tackle this.
That's what I've been doing today.
ALT Photo of a roundtable with the creators of Netflix series Adolescence in 10 Downing Street hosted by PM Keir Starmer.
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A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
by @jburnmurdoch
ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7…
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Can anyone recommend some good introductory books for someone just getting into reading performatively on public transport
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Why boys don't read* - a story in microcosm...
My 11-year-old son loves reading. He's into sport, gaming, TV etc. but hoovers up books. He races through YA fiction, so I've started him on some classics from my bookshelves, which he's really enjoyed... >
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If you're curious to know more about the role of knowledge in learning and curriculum, download this free e-book, a collaborative effort by an international team of eight experts. link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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🌟Structure🌟When I talk about text structure, and how to write about it, I find myself saying this stuff a lot.
Contrast is a gift, and can be leveraged to make interesting points. I can't think of anything I've read, set text or unseen, that doesn't have some kind of contrast.
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