Soft launching my vocabulary instruction site: resources are still in progress, but it’s live for anyone curious to follow along as it grows. Link below 👇🏻.

RT @adamboxer1: My first lesson:. How do I start off with new classes? It's taken me a while, but this is now my routine 👇👇. First, make su….

Rewired for Distraction: Why Attention is the New Literacy Crisis.

Working in a school with a shared T&L vision is energising. My ideas are being built on, challenged, and expanded so quickly it feels like I’m learning twice as much as expected. What fun.

RT @AmmarMerhbi: As if teachers have masterd the very intricate art and science of teaching and learning, curriculum design, classroom mana….

@Doug_Lemov ‘s new book the guide to the science of reading.

Also the green bubble… active self regulation!. What’s sad and a little ironic is that I felt compelled to stop reading just to post this quote:. “As if the cellphone were inside of him.”. Classrooms need to be low tech, high text where self-regulation comes first, before WRxLC

Bottom line for me: Teaching EAL is great. it’s opened up nuances like this and reshaped how I see reading models.

Newer models (2021 for that matter) Active View of Reading, highlight the nuanced foundations that enable reading, like directionality and the left-to-right tracking needed in English.

George Box inspiration here: the Active View of Reading and my time teaching in the Middle East helped me see print concepts as belonging in both word recognition and language comprehension. Scarborough’s Rope doesn’t quite catch this, especially with Arabic script right to left.

Look what arrived in the mail!.Keen keen keen to read 🤓 . @lamb_heart_tea @MrsBallAP

ChatGPT 5.0 is so bad 👎.

RT @P_A_Kirschner: GIVEAWAY! We have a few copies of our - @C_Hendrick @DrJimHeal @P_A_Kirschner - new book to give away. Bonus points if y….

RT @Inner_Drive: Talking alone makes students do all the heavy lifting. @MrZachG shows how clear, focused visuals can boost understanding….

Underrated thing US does well. Free iced water. I hardly have ice in my drinks but I think I’ll have to change that 😅.

I love the colours of Miami Beach.

Tagged along with the wife since she operated a flight to Miami. ☀️

Lost touch with the common man with this exit row seat!

Standby mode activated

RT @adamboxer1: I think calling out is *extremely* common in UK classrooms, and over the years I've learnt a number of tricks for dealing w….