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Boys and girls come out to play
(Early Years Update, 2004)
Do boys really have a problem with literacy, or is there something wrong with our education system? |
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Problems in the Early Years
(Times Educational Supplement, Opinion piece, 2004)
How our educational system is creating learning problems.
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Avoiding the grammar trap
(Times Educational Supplement, Primary Forum, 2003)
Why does grammar so often mean decontextualised exercises? and what we can do instead. |
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Reading aloud
(Times Educational Supplement, Primary Forum, 2003)
Why throwing out the practice of reading aloud may have impeded progress in literacy.
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Are you sitting comfortably
(Times Educational Supplement, Primary magazine, 2001)
A plea for the return of "Storytime" in all primary classes. |
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Time to Teach
(Spiked online journal, 2001)
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