Focus on vocabulary, and you improve attainment across subjects
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Vocabulary Attainment
  • Apr 4, 2022
Texting families to improve student vocabulary
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Vocabulary
  • Mar 2, 2022
Commonly confused academic vocabulary
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Vocabulary
  • Jan 22, 2022
Why we should teach spelling patterns to pre-readers
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Spelling Reading Vocabulary Literacy
  • Dec 13, 2021
Using songs to teach vocabulary
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Vocabulary Singing
  • Nov 30, 2021
Scottish education: Teachers should give children the confidence to speak up, not ban words from the classroom
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Communication Speech Language Vocabulary
  • Oct 26, 2021
The alarming link between poor vocabulary and behaviour
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Behaviour Vocabulary Attainment
  • Jul 21, 2021
Does technology help students build English vocabulary?
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Vocabulary Technology
  • Jul 20, 2021
The transfer effects of a morphological intervention for students with limited vocabulary knowledge
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Vocabulary
  • May 25, 2021
What matters to English learners’ acquisition of academic vocabulary
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Vocabulary
  • May 6, 2021
Pupils ‘expected to know’ up to 1,700 words under reforms to MFL GCSEs
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MFL Languages GCSEs Vocabulary Curriculum reforms
  • Mar 10, 2021
Early years: 'Massive' lockdown hit to pupils' language
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Early years Coronavirus Lockdown Language Vocabulary
  • Jan 26, 2021
No 10 has done a 'U-turn' on school meals: where does the term come from?
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Free school meals Vocabulary Literacy
  • Nov 13, 2020
Reflections on vocabulary teaching for the launch of Bridging the Word Gap
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Transition Vocabulary
  • Oct 23, 2020
The 'word gap' between primary and secondary
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Vocabulary Transition
  • Oct 23, 2020
Most teachers have no time to close pupil 'word gap'
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Vocabulary
  • Oct 23, 2020
Bridging the word gap at transition
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Transition Vocabulary
  • Oct 22, 2020
Technology-mediated vocabulary instruction
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Vocabulary
  • Aug 4, 2020
School closures will widen ‘word gap’, say teachers
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Coronavirus School closures Vocabulary Speech
  • Jul 15, 2020
English vocabulary learning using a mobile app with a self-regulated learning mechanism
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Vocabulary Self-regulation
  • Apr 28, 2020
Should schools be allowed to ban slang words like 'peng'?
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Vocabulary
  • Jan 20, 2020
The vital importance of vocabulary in maths
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Maths Vocabulary
  • Sep 5, 2019
Science and shadows: using wordless picture books to teach vocabulary
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Vocabulary
  • Jul 15, 2019
Education Secretary Damian Hinds urges parents to put down smartphone and talk to their children
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Damian Hinds Mobile phones Parents Engagement Vocabulary Communication
  • Jul 1, 2019
What really is the point of vocabulary tests in MFL?
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MFL Vocabulary
  • Jun 25, 2019
Developing pupils’ vocabulary is about more than words
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Vocabulary Language
  • May 13, 2019
What influences vocabulary?
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Vocabulary
  • Apr 30, 2019
A vocabulary led curriculum
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Vocabulary Curriculum
  • Apr 10, 2019
Three ways we should still be using the class thesaurus
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Vocabulary
  • Apr 7, 2019
Making vocabulary visible through technology
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Vocabulary Technology
  • Apr 1, 2019
From meerkats to volcanoes - primary pupils' unexpectedly 'sophisticated' vocab
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Vocabulary Language
  • Mar 7, 2019
Sats: why etymology boosts vocabulary and spelling
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SATs Vocabulary Spelling Literacy
  • Feb 4, 2019
KS2 Sats: why and how we targeted tier 2 words
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KS2 SATs Vocabulary
  • Jan 31, 2019
Why vocabulary matters in maths
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Vocabulary Maths Literacy
  • Jan 21, 2019
Why does vocabulary matter?
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Vocabulary Communication Literacy Performance
  • Jan 16, 2019
How to improve student vocabulary
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Vocabulary Teachers Teaching
  • Dec 3, 2018
Five ways to teach English vocabulary through any subject
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Vocabulary English
  • Aug 5, 2018
Vocabulary: A number of words?
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Vocabulary Language
  • Jul 17, 2018
The key to social mobility lies in language
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Social mobility Language Vocabulary Education Select Committee
  • Jul 11, 2018
‘Vocab isn’t the key to success, but it’s a start’
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Vocabulary Reading
  • Jul 8, 2018
Parents should put down phones and speak to children to boost vocabulary, author Philip Pullman has urged
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Mobile phones Vocabulary National tests Exams
  • Jul 6, 2018
Parents should put down phones and speak to children to boost vocabulary, author Philip Pullman has urged
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Mobile phones Parents Vocabulary Literacy
  • Jul 6, 2018
Daily roundup 26 June: Early development, upskirting, and tablets
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Language Vocabulary Technology
  • Jun 26, 2018
Word gaps: 5 strategies to boost vocabulary
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Vocabulary Teachers Teaching
  • Jun 25, 2018
Children's word of the year revealed
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Vocabulary
  • Jun 6, 2018
Vocabulary: What does it mean to know a word?
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Vocabulary
  • Jun 2, 2018
Spielman: Growth in reception pupils lacking basic skills
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Ofsted Amanda Spielman Vocabulary Nursery schools
  • Jun 1, 2018
How to close the vocabulary gap in the classroom
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Vocabulary
  • Jun 1, 2018
Parents to receive advice on teaching nursery rhymes in bid to close disadvantaged children's word gap
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Language Underperformance Primary Vocabulary
  • Apr 30, 2018
How to help pupils 'catch' new vocabulary and strengthen their ability to learn
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Vocabulary Literacy Reading Communication
  • Apr 30, 2018
DfE launches schemes to support early language development
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DfE Language Vocabulary Funding
  • Apr 30, 2018
Four in 10 students in year 7 are being held back by limited vocabulary
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Vocabulary Literacy Reading
  • Apr 25, 2018
The Quick Q&A: How to help pupils close the vocabulary gap
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Vocabulary Literacy Reading Attainment
  • Apr 23, 2018
Daily roundup 19 April: Exploitation, breastfeeding, and vocabulary
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Exploitation Sexual abuse Vocabulary Literacy Reading English Language
  • Apr 19, 2018
Limited vocabulary impact on educational outcomes
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Vocabulary Pupil outcomes Literacy Language
  • Apr 19, 2018
Children’s grades at risk because they have narrow vocabulary, finds report
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Vocabulary Literacy Attainment Pupil performance Language English
  • Apr 19, 2018
More children are struggling with vocabulary, teachers say
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Vocabulary Literacy Attainment Language English Primary Secondary
  • Apr 19, 2018
Teachers in UK report growing 'vocabulary deficiency'
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Literacy Language English Vocabulary Primary Secondary
  • Apr 19, 2018
Narrow vocabulary 'hits pupils' grades'
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Academic achievement Vocabulary Literacy Language English Secondary Primary
  • Apr 19, 2018
The golden thread made real in a moment of pedagogic magic!
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Pedagogy Vocabulary CPD
  • Nov 22, 2017
Vocabulary: too big to ‘teach’?
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Vocabulary Literacy Secondary schools
  • Nov 22, 2017
Reading extends teenagers' vocabulary, whatever their background
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Reading Vocabulary Literacy Research Secondary
  • Nov 22, 2017
Tes talks to… Dr Jessie Ricketts
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Literacy Vocabulary
  • Nov 3, 2017
Building word confidence: everyone read, say, understand, use, practise.
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Tom Sherrington Teacherhead English Vocabulary Reading
  • Oct 27, 2017
Pioneering scheme seeks to close the poverty-related vocabulary gap in primary school
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Herald Scotland Scotland Literacy Attainment gap Disadvantaged pupils Affluence Vocabulary Primary schools
  • May 15, 2017
You too could be multilingual – it’s just about unlocking the skills inside
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The Conversation Languages Research Vocabulary Grammar Digital Online learning
  • Apr 3, 2017
This much I know about: why subject specific key words are not enough for academic success
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John Tomsett Primary schools Handwriting Spelling Vocabulary
  • Jan 21, 2017