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Balkanism – decoding separate from reading comprehension? | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Balkanism – decoding separate from reading comprehension? August 9, 2015. A few months ago I wrote a post. Describing my first encounter with phonics instruction and some of the early lessons I learned as I tried to understand more about its principles and approaches. In this post I am trying to work my way through a couple of observations that are troubling me a bit; I don’t quite know what they mean. Showing a school which uses phonics as a secondary strategy. On Saturday I was l...
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Why we use the Phonics Screening Check | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Why we use the Phonics Screening Check. July 29, 2015. Students at the school at which I work learn to decode systematically and explicitly. We believe that, given the balance of evidence, a good grounding in phonics, taught systematically, will provide them with the best opportunity to improve their reading comprehension. A key part of our teaching strategy is using assessment evidence to pinpoint what a student can decode and what they still need to work on. It provides a standard.
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one tiny island – Page 2 – the Gibson-Abbott wanderings around this one tiny island in an enormous universe….
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The Gibson-Abbott wanderings around this one tiny island in an enormous universe…. April 26, 2015. The easter bilby found us in Noosa! Continue reading →. April 14, 2015. April 25, 2015. Wet in Woodford – Kirsti. Continue reading →. April 14, 2015. April 14, 2015. My 8th birthday – Mia. Continue reading →. April 7, 2015. Jandowae, stinging trees and the Darling Downs – Kirsti. Continue reading →. April 3, 2015. April 3, 2015. Opal miners are just like ants – Kirsti. Continue reading →. March 28, 2015.
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August | 2015 | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Monthly Archives: August 2015. Why ghoti gives me the tiotce. August 31, 2015. I am usually a reasonably measured person but I have just about reached my limit. Four times in a little over a week I have encountered somebody using ghoti. As an argument against using an aspect of systematic phonics instruction. For those unfamiliar with the term often misattributed to George Bernard Shaw, the expression ghoti. O’ as /i/ from women. And ‘ti’ as /sh/ from notion. August 9, 2015. Descri...
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June | 2015 | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Monthly Archives: June 2015. Island Hopping Is intervention instruction actually just good instruction? June 19, 2015. That got me thinking about the relationship between instruction that we would call intervention instruction and that which occurs in our regular everyday classrooms. In particular, I wonder about why some students can make such incredible gains while in an intervention class but then have more difficulty when placed in a regular classroom. Perhaps, in Mrs Brown’s c...
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February | 2016 | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Monthly Archives: February 2016. The First Year – What I have learned about implementing a phonics program (Part 2). February 19, 2016. Part 1 of this blog. Harness what you have. Grain size is important. Independent eyes are useful. It’s not you, it is your instruction on this concept. Interlude – Asterix, Puns and General Knowledge. February 9, 2016. Over the most recent school holidays I had the fortune to spend time with my eldest nephew. He is a bright boy with a voracious...
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Why ghoti gives me the tiotce | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Why ghoti gives me the tiotce. August 31, 2015. I am usually a reasonably measured person but I have just about reached my limit. Four times in a little over a week I have encountered somebody using ghoti. As an argument against using an aspect of systematic phonics instruction. For those unfamiliar with the term often misattributed to George Bernard Shaw, the expression ghoti. O’ as /i/ from women. And ‘ti’ as /sh/ from notion. What gives me the tiotce. April 28, 2016 at 6:10 am.
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Sleight of Hand – activity substitution and program fidelity | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Sleight of Hand – activity substitution and program fidelity. June 5, 2015. Yesterday an article by Robert Slavin. Was published in the Huffington Post which highlighted the critical need for fidelity in teaching programs. He highlights that, although some consideration must be made for school and student context, care must be taken to maintain the essential elements and principles which underline the approach if it is to be effect for its original purpose. June 19, 2015 at 10:57 pm.
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April | 2015 | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Monthly Archives: April 2015. On Target – how the nature of targets shapes teacher response. April 19, 2015. As part of my. Work I am sometimes asked to make predictions about the progress particular students might make. Essentially the idea is that if our instruction with this student or group of students proves equally effective as. Instruction in the past. E resultant progress should be ab. Predictions are useful they allow us to get a sense of. Ion of resources for. For meeting...
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Interlude – Asterix, Puns and General Knowledge | Not quite tabula rasa
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Not quite tabula rasa. Interlude – Asterix, Puns and General Knowledge. February 9, 2016. Over the most recent school holidays I had the fortune to spend time with my eldest nephew. He is a bright boy with a voracious appetite for reading. He has always read well he figured out the alphabetic principle early and has adopted generalisations and exceptions well enough for him to access a great variety of teenage texts despite being nine years of age. I thought you said that would be funny. Leave a Reply Ca...
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