Mr Leyshon
@RyonWLeyshon
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Experienced KS2 teacher and English Lead 📚Now living in the beautiful Northern Ireland 🌊 Father of 3 amazing little kiddies ❤️Always researching something!
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Joined December 2019
*Updated pinned tweet*. Apart from one (apparently very useful) thread on behaviour to start, I’ve collated a selection of the threads I’ve written about teaching various aspects of Primary English for easy reference:.
Behaviour Toolkit (v2) - a thread. I find it useful to have a simplified overview of high utility behaviour management strategies on my desk. I choose one or two each week that I’m going to make a conscious effort to improve. (I explain each strategy in more detail below ⬇️)
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RT @primarypercival: *FREE WRITING WEBINAR RECORDING*. At Stanley Road, we have developed an approach to writing that we believe aligns wit….
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RT @primarypercival: The Writing Framework has just been published, and I'm pleased to have been part of the sector panel to help produce t….
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RT @ChrisYoules: 🕹Competition time!🕹. To celebrate the fact that I've finally got my hands on a copy of my book, I want to give away a copy….
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Some interesting arguments put forth by Bruce Saddler regarding the power of sentence level instruction. Whilst I’m very aware of the need to master transcriptional skills to lower cognitive burden when writing, I hadn’t considered the impact of poor sentence construction.
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RT @idkknowitall: "Before this year, I didn't know a sentence could be good or bad.". How can we get students to pay attention to the quali….
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RT @RyonWLeyshon: *Writing focused instructional time allocation*. How do you/your school adjust your instructional priorities depending on….
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Name a book that simply MUST be read to/with children at some point in their primary school journey. I'll start. 🐰
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. are greatly appreciated. I have a feeling @primarypercival may have written about this at some point. Is my memory correct, Andrew?. Writing instruction lovers please do share/advise if you can! .@WritingRocks_17 @PieCorbett @ReadingShanahan @ChrisYoules.
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To what extent all of this gets reflected in the time that is dedicated to each aspect of writing in the different years is something I'd like to dig into more deeply. I'm interested in reading a wide range of perspectives on this so any responses, RTs and recommend reading. .
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E.g. Instructional time targeting transcriptional skills will inevitably start very high and gradually reduce over time whereas instructional time specifically targeting writing craft and text structure will likely start very low and increase as proficiency and age increases.
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. writing development (and all areas will always be at least a small consideration at all ages), I think we need to be intentional about where the emphasis is predominantly placed and why as children grow as writers.
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*Writing focused instructional time allocation*. How do you/your school adjust your instructional priorities depending on the age/stage of writing development as children progress through primary school?. Whilst a lot of instruction will inevitably impact multiple areas of.
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With so many well researched and evidence-based approaches to improving reading fluency available, I'm looking to dive deeper into which approach may be best for a given stage in reading development. Any recommended reading? @Suchmo83 @ReadingForum_Ed @ReadingShanahan.
What if a simple, structured peer reading routine could triple students’ reading fluency growth without extra adult support? . In 2017, Brown et al. tested this with ‘Dyad Reading’. The results were interesting. Here is what they found and how it works 🧵⬇️.
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Oh, and this little mnemonic to support the core aspects of story writing and summarising is very useful too. 🙌
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A great blog (from an excellent and thoughtful practitioner you should be following) highlighting the potential benefits of incorporating writing fluency sessions into the classroom. I’m not sure where it’ll fit in my timetable, but I’ll be making at least a little room for it!.
A drill that practices the action you want is worth a thousand words of explanation. Part 1 of this series is about using short free-writes to build fluency and how to connect that foundation to the skills you teach throughout the year.
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What are your 'go to' books for developing subject-specific pedagogy (primary age)? I.e. An invaluable recommendation for each subject area, like:.Reading - @Suchmo83's Primary Reading Simplified.Writing - The Writing Revolution.Science - ?.History - ?.Geography - ?.RE - ?.Etc….
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RT @Suchmo83: This latest in a series of school crusades from Jamie Oliver is bad news for both the profession and - more importantly - tho….
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RT @lucy_crehan: After 6 months, 70 focus groups, 149 submissions and 1432 survey responses I am thrilled to be sharing my report on the st….
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