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Ramender Crompton retweeted
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'Building understanding about literacy assessment'
Literacy assessment can be done differently. Instead of just relying on reading ages, teachers can use manageable diagnostic assessments to adapt their teaching & support students:
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‘Boys do not benefit from lower expectations; they benefit from adults who combine high challenge with trust’: a leader sets out how his trust boosted boys’ engagement
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Ramender Crompton retweeted
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'Building understanding about literacy assessment'
"Reading ages are a start, but they are far away from telling the whole story."
alexquigley.co.uk/building-u…
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Why texts read at school should be challenging, extracts can be useful, and reading stories to the class is not always a good option: US literacy researcher @ReadingShanahan talks to @Helen_Amass about the best way to teach reading tes.com/magazine/teaching-le…
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My latest substack post is a personal reflection on curriculum booklets: what they can do well, what needs to sit around them, and the potential pitfalls to avoid. Booklets can support curriculum coherence, intellectual preparation, non-specialist teaching and workload — but only when used thoughtfully. open.substack.com/pub/robgeo… #geographyteacher #curriculumdesign #KS3 #bookletisedcurriculum
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Interesting article in @NATEfeed on ‘Why good writers still struggle with new writing tasks’
It explains new research exploring how writing in history, science & English varies and the different demands & opportunities they create.
nate.org.uk/2026/06/05/why-g…
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In this great article, @BarbaraBleiman explores what the momentum behind oracy means for English classrooms, drawing together research, policy and practice to highlight the ideas we should keep in mind as we prepare for the new National Curriculum.
nate.org.uk/2026/06/05/think…
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A reading culture is easier to build when there's agreement about why reading matters.
Everything else grows from there.
Read: Building a Reading Culture: Starting with Why?
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"A child isn’t born with SEND. They aren’t born knowing that they don’t fit," says the writer. "This is something they learn; something that they’re taught."
This piece is one of the most beautiful mediations on SEND I have read.
tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…
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‘Literacy and Key Stage 3 Success’
“…too few secondary teachers have received explicit training in recognising or addressing the nuanced literacy barriers students face in their subjects.”
alexquigley.co.uk/literacy-a…
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The problem wasn't resources. It was assumptions.
Schools getting this right raise the pitch from September. Rich texts, sharp questions, high expectations.
KS3 isn't the bridge. It's the foundation.
Book out now: amzn.eu/d/0eywWJAr
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'Reading clusters to build language'
Books build far more than reading skill alone. The build schema that helps meaning & learning stick.
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With schools reporting an ‘explosion’ of requests for extra time in exams, is this really the best access arrangement to help students with SEND? Ellen Peirson-Hagger investigates
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Despite national gains in reading, pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds still make less progress than their peers, says Alex Quigley. So, what can be done to help?
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KS3 is becoming a national conversation again, and this matters because Years 7, 8 and 9 are not the warm-up years. They are not a holding pattern before GCSE and they are not simply the bridge between primary and Key Stage 4
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Professor Jessie Ricketts sets out the importance of secondary schools making reading a strategic priority, as she offers three freely available initiatives to help students
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Prompted by the cultural impact of Adolescence, Harmeet Matharu invited Year Eight students to explore masculinity through literature, history and debate — creating space for thoughtful, non-judgemental discussion.
nate.org.uk/2026/04/15/from-…
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Student Talk: It matters - not only to deepen learning but because it also just does. teacherhead.com/2026/04/02/s… via @teacherhead
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If students can decode words yet still miss meaning, the problem runs deeper than vocabulary. Eleanor Nicholls Steed argues that closing the reading gap needs a shift from word-by-word instruction to teaching students how to build meaning across texts.
nate.org.uk/2026/04/28/expli…
