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A network for literacy leaders in schools, MATs and LAs to promote the sharing of expertise and support. Founder: Jennifer Webb @FunkyPedagogy
Joined April 2024
We are THRILLED to announce that the brilliant @DamsonEd will be dropping in on The Literacy Community to talk all things reading and comprehension on Wednesday next week at 4pm! You can join in here: https://t.co/XELbBMwwW0
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At Carlton Academy Trust, we are privileged to serve brilliant communities in West Yorkshire. We’re proud of where we are, but the social and economic challenges of our region mean that sometimes we have to take radical action to improve the life chances of our students… ⬇️
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I am so proud of what we’ve achieved so far this year. What an utter privilege it is to work with colleagues @CATAcademyTrust See this thread for details and impact so far for reading in Bradford and Keighley - this is the start of something BIG! @Literacy_Trust @LiteracyCommUK
At Carlton Academy Trust, we are privileged to serve brilliant communities in West Yorkshire. We’re proud of where we are, but the social and economic challenges of our region mean that sometimes we have to take radical action to improve the life chances of our students… ⬇️
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It was my turn at work to do Thought For The Day and normally I think of my own but today I just read out every word of this banger of a blog from @tstarkey1212
https://t.co/PwDT61hIJI
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Hayden is kicking off again. With a clockwork regularity he’s decided he’s not going to do his work and instead is shouting across the room to a boy he likes to shout at when he doesn&#…
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We are so excited to have Madeleine Roberts joining us to talk about Fluency on Monday! We’ve got over 150 people signed up already! You can sign up to the event for free using the link below 👇
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CPD ALERT! Our next webinar will be hosted by Madeleine Roberts, the Network Lead for Primary English at Ark ( https://t.co/dhvOwcx0er) who will talk to us about all things FLUENCY! Sign up here: https://t.co/uMAqUxgjuG 9th December at 4pm…
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New post! This is our write-up from the excellent session which @DamsonEd did for The Literacy Community on Reading assessment, comprehension and interventions in secondary back in October…
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This is a write up of my notes from the brilliant webinar which Megan Dixon gave to The Literacy Community in October 2024. Apologies in advance for any inaccuracy or omission – I am so grate…
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We are so grateful to @DamsonEd who just gave an absolute masterclass on reading tests and comprehension to 120+ members of The Literacy Community. Wonderful stuff! Sign up to the mailing list (in bio!) to get our key takeaways later this week ✍️
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We are VERY excited for this webinar today! We have 209 people signed up at the moment to hear all about reading texts and comprehension from the very clever Megan Dixon @DamsonEd It’s not too late to sign up to the live event!
We are THRILLED to announce that the brilliant @DamsonEd will be dropping in on The Literacy Community to talk all things reading and comprehension on Wednesday next week at 4pm! You can join in here: https://t.co/XELbBMwwW0
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This will be ace. I will be taking a LOT of notes 🤓 We announced this via our mailing list this morning and had 92 sign-ups in the first hour 💥💥💥
We are THRILLED to announce that the brilliant @DamsonEd will be dropping in on The Literacy Community to talk all things reading and comprehension on Wednesday next week at 4pm! You can join in here: https://t.co/XELbBMwwW0
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This is a really nice thread on fluency 👇 @LiteracyCommUK
Reading fluency can be described as the bridge between decoding and comprehension (EEF, 2022). It’s a vital part of students reading AND understanding well. But what could that look like in the classroom? Here’s what we do at TAL for fluency interventions: A thread 🧵
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I was so proud to share the emerging work we are doing @AcademyCAT1 in my keynote at @FSDConferences this morning. I talked about the critical imperative in our setting, but asserted that this makes it even more important that we strive high… #FSD2024 1/
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We have some exciting announcements in the pipeline… 😉
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 The Literacy Community fairies have woken up from their customary three week nap, where they hide from September’s chaos… They’ve been busy at work today, so watch out for news of LITERACY FUN coming your way soon… 👀
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 The Literacy Community fairies have woken up from their customary three week nap, where they hide from September’s chaos… They’ve been busy at work today, so watch out for news of LITERACY FUN coming your way soon… 👀
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Some great discussion and ideas coming from the first Literacy Community round table event - key threads shared below & many interesting ones to consider in regards to your own English provision and community needs
Thank you to all the brilliant teachers from across West Yorkshire (and one from THE OTHER PLACE) for coming together tonight for our first ever roundtable event for The Literacy Community! We are so grateful to @CarltonKeighley for hosting 👏👏👏 Some highlights here… 👇
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New thread summary of the discussions at this evening’s event 😁 Thank you to everyone who came, and thanks to @CarltonKeighley for being so incredibly welcoming (especially the head teacher who stuck around late on the last week of term to be on door duty) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you to all the brilliant teachers from across West Yorkshire (and one from THE OTHER PLACE) for coming together tonight for our first ever roundtable event for The Literacy Community! We are so grateful to @CarltonKeighley for hosting 👏👏👏 Some highlights here… 👇
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13/… so far these are all the places where schools have volunteered. We’d LOVE to see some in other places, too. SCOTLAND??! WALES???! We want you to be part of the family!! 🏴 🏴 Cornwall? East Yorkshire? Kent? Any other takers???
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12/… Look out for a Literacy Community email in the coming weeks (or don’t - have a holiday and come back to it later!) with plans for 2024-25. Well also be in touch with everyone who has volunteered to host a Roundtable event next year…
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11/ We ended the evening by talking about how these roundtable events can work in the future. We have some great ideas and suggestions from our attendees which we will now use to create a format moving forward…
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