Year 6 teacher and phase leader. 🦊 LCFC fan. Writing consultant based in Greater Manchester. Passionate about developing accurate and confident writers ✏️
Joined January 2014
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Delivering a writing CPD session for teachers this morning focused on Dialogue with Direction.
Looking forward to working with teachers and seeing how they take this back into the classroom.
#PrimaryEducation #Writing #WriteSmart #TeacherCPD #KS2 #Literacy
Fantastic turnout today for #WriteSmart training. Thanks for the amazing feedback and I look forward to working with some of you in the future ✍️
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It’s day 3 of #Eduadvent! Today's prize is a £50 Amazon voucher from @educake.
Fancy putting the pen down and picking up a coffee next term?Educake's auto-marked quizzes help pupils make progress without adding to your workload. To enter just REPOST and LIKE by the end of today!
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Thread 🧵…
Sentence-level instruction is well worth looking into. We know it can yield an effect-size of around +0.46. For context, anything over +0.4 is generally considered to have a significant positive effect on children’s writing development.
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What's the best bit of bath and bedtime with small children?
Wrong answers only.
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Deconstructing Word Questions - Y6 out this Jan! £30. The video outlines 15 months work in 138 seconds...
4 more videos (released soon) will explain in more detail.
One person who RTs this tweet gets the resource for free when released 👍
Youtube: youtu.be/PYEBjhtumI4
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*** '7 Helpful Vocabulary Websites' ***
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1. Rewordify.com. This tool has lots of uses: 'reword' texts; identify complex Tier 2 vocab; create glossaries; learn new vocab, and more.
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rewordify.com/ is an excellent website: copy and paste any text & it will identify the tier two vocabulary. From this, the site can generate a glossary, multiple choice quizzes & more. For example:
dropbox.com/s/43j5ar6o2ih0w5…
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🚨 We're giving away TWO copies of the Writers' & Artists' Guide Guide to Getting Published by Alysoun Owen.
All you need to do is follow and RT by 9am UK time 23/11/22!
#bookgiveaway
#GiveawayAlert
ALT Guide to Getting Published by Alysoun Owen - book cover
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Guidance on teaching writing and the new Ofsted framework
writing4pleasure.com/guidanc…
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If you've been enjoying my weekly task videos - here they are all in one place!
Each week I'll be uploading a new task to add to the collection.
🚨 New CPD Course Available! 🚨
A collection of tasks which can be exemplified using a range of models and manipulatives.
Sign up here: courses.completemaths.com/ta…
Look out for the weekly additions to this course from @StudyMaths
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Inspired by this thread and the @TheWritingRevol I have made some 'do now' tasks to tackle sentence construction problems. Please use/adapt if helpful: docs.google.com/presentation…
My Year 4 class (last year) made huge improvements in their ability to coherently record and accurately punctuate ideas in their writing.
Here's a thread about it in case it's of any use to anyone else:
(It will feel very familiar to anyone using @TheWritingRevol strategies!)
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The components of an effective writing lesson
writing4pleasure.com/2022/07…
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HALF TERM GIVEAWAY-retweet this post to enter this weeks draw for a free TFFB printer + labels. Thank-you to all my followers 😃
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So @Mr_AlmondED set me the challenge of writing a randomly-generated KS2 arithmetic paper. He owes me a Sunday.
Self-marking and printable. (I've just got a few more question types to add.)
mathsbot.com/primary/sats
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ANNOUNCEMENT help spread the word for this amazing TFFB device. The game changer for teacher workload 🙂 retweet and you will be entered for this weeks draw to win a free TFFB device and labels 🙂
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🚨 NEW POST 🚨
'Does writing *really* matter in art and design?'
theconfidentteacher.com/2022…
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🚨Bank Holiday Book Giveaway🚨
This bank holiday weekend, I’m giving away 3 signed copies of ‘Closing the Writing Gap’! ✍️
Simply RETWEET to enter.
Winners drawn on Monday 29th August 🤞
[Grab the ‘Practical Strategies’ chapter from the book HERE: bit.ly/3QRvFC6]
