Mat Brigham

@mattw009 Yes me too. I replied to Carl’s post but so far have not had a reply!

@Kathy_Rastle @BPSOfficial @a_lopukhina I see thank you Kathy!

@MatBrigham @BPSOfficial @a_lopukhina We've shown in other work that you need min 60 wpm before you even *look* at subt. To use as scaffold, you need to be relatively good reader already, so don't know how much R fluency improvement is possible. Subt do help fluent readers learn new spoken language though.

** New article ** No evidence that same-language subtitles improve children's reading fluency. #OA @BPSOfficial @a_lopukhina doi.org/10.1111/bjop.7…

@C_Hendrick …and shouldn’t we recognise that how to structure a paragraph is also knowledge too?

@C_Hendrick …so can’t this be a paragraph structure problem *in addition to* to a knowledge problem?

The student who can't write a coherent paragraph about photosynthesis doesn't have a "paragraph structure" problem; they have a photosynthesis problem.🧵⤵️

Thanks for this brilliant recommendation⬇️ Will order for our our grade 1 students.

@SWLiteracy Yes, great - thanks John!

As we teach the spellings of the sounds in English systematically from Reception through to Y3 and beyond, we recommend putting posters on the wall of sound-spelling correspondences that have already been taught. Thus, a poster for Year 1 might include words with the spellings of /ee/: she, see, cream, brief, to which funny (two syllables) might be added as soon as the class begin to work on polysyllabic words. The words would be in black font with the target spellings in red. Does this help?

What type of sound wall (if any) do you recommend in a classroom where phonics is taught? @SWLiteracy

3/4 A close study of 200-400 pg books can take months, stalling curriculum coverage. Do you advocate for prioritizing shorter texts or is there a specific pacing strategy to keep "Whole Class" momentum without losing depth?

2/4 Why is this type of reading not addressed more explicitly? Is this a "deliberate narrowing of scope" or do you see the same principles applying equally to standalone content-area and expository texts?

**New** chapter on “Literacy” just published in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science. The whole series is super, accessible chapters and no paywalls, a great resource for teaching. oecs.mit.edu/pub/epclh9no/r…

Hi @Booktrust, have you removed the Poetry Prompts lesson guidance PDFs from your site? They were online just a few months ago. Could you please reupload or share a link? Many thanks! booktrust.org.uk/resources/find…

@smorrisey @TeresaCremin Thanks for the book title suggestions! Do you allow/ban/partially ban graphic novels? I feel it might be giving a bad message to ban but like I said, some students will use all indepedent reading for graphic novels otherwise!

@MatBrigham @TeresaCremin Not too harsh. I find novels in verse or anything from Brian Selznick are books that many Ss enjoy and can be a bridge into longer novels.

In independent reading sessions, I alternate weeks: graphic novels allowed one week, not the next. Otherwise, some students read only graphic novels. Too harsh? Or a fair way to broaden their reading diet? @TeresaCremin

@smorrisey Thanks Sean. In a podcast, Craig says he doesn't recommend teachers to spend time creating sequences (apart from expert teachers) as they are already made - does he provide ones that can work for the elementary grades?

@MatBrigham I teach 5th grade in the US. I have created sequences. They work great. I actually need to create more over the summer. I have about 50 geared for 5th grade. I think sequences can easily work for earlier grades as well.

Any primary teachers out there who have read "Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain: Sequences and Behaviour to Enable Mathematical Thinking in the Classroom" from Craig Barton. Does it work well in the primary setting and are there sequences available for primary?

Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research led by @a_lopukhina shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.