Dianne Murphy 📚🇳🇿🇮🇪
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Co-Founder & Programme Designer @ThinkReadHQ | Intervention is only successful if students catch up completely | @IFERIorg AdGp | Instructivist | DI fan | Alfie
Aotearoa NZ; UK; Co Cork
Joined March 2013
Following on from our @researchEDHome presentation ( https://t.co/Wb5dEDEFGx) The Bridge Over the Reading Gap, we have written a series of blog posts to answer the questions we didn’t have time to answer #researchED #ThinkingReading 👇🏻
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Failing to provide funding for Ukraine would be the biggest geopolitical blunder in the history of the EU.
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Teachers must not only deliver an instructional programme; they must also become behavioural coaches. Read more in our blog “Because Reading Was Never ‘Just Phonics’”- https://t.co/S89NHKIYvw (3 min read).
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We don’t have a complete account of Donald Trump and his family’s finances. But a clear picture has emerged: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history. https://t.co/OozbOzTjqI
newyorker.com
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.
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1/3 As we head towards the end of term, I am thinking about the quiet, compliant children who can't read well but go under the radar. Too many children often don’t get the attention they need because they are experts in *not* drawing attention to themselves. How has their term
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Sunset last night. Stone walls, one man made … #cliffsofmoher #coclare #ireland View large and landscape .. and … follow for more! 📸
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💯agree! That’s the main bad habit we have to get older struggling readers to stop using & teach them (the bedrock of reading) the gaps in their knowledge of structured synth phonics. And, of course, fluency, morphology, comprehension . . . That leads to successful readers!
And - to be clear - what they absolutely do *not* need is any form of teaching that encourages them to use the first letter or two before guessing the rest of the word from context. >>
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In short, if a kid hasn't yet learned enough GPCs to begin decoding for themselves, then continuing to teach them explicitly and systematically (i.e. SSP) makes perfect sense, regardless of how many hours of instruction they have had. >>
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Not sure if this counts as 'different' but... If a pupil can't decode after plenty of high-quality instruction, the appropriate response should be to assess what aspect(s) of decoding they are struggling with and target this with explicit teaching and plenty of practice. >>
'If children have had between 190 hours and 380 hours of discrete synthetic phonics during their first two years of the national curriculum, but they still can’t decode, then perhaps a different approach should be tried' https://t.co/2jTVkOQ5uL
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Classic confusion of a curriculum object with a pedagogy.
'If children have had between 190 hours and 380 hours of discrete synthetic phonics during their first two years of the national curriculum, but they still can’t decode, then perhaps a different approach should be tried' https://t.co/2jTVkOQ5uL
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It’s so bizarre and sad that phonics, one of the most evidence-informed, demonstrably successful areas in education, continues to be denied by some. It would be comical if the dangers of accepting this denialism weren’t so damaging to children’s literacy
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The proportion of children in England who struggle to read has remained at a similar level for many years.
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To dismiss phonics, it is now necessary to deny the evidence. Read more in “Does Phonics Help or Hinder Comprehension?” https://t.co/7o1qS1YfQZ (8 min read).
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As we move towards the end of term, I am thinking about the quiet, compliant children who go under the radar. Too many children often don’t get the attention they need because they are experts in *not* drawing attention to themselves. How has their term been? When we start
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The world knows this unforgettable melody and sings it in numerous languages. “Shchedryk” (Carol of the Bells), inspired by a Ukrainian folk carol, became a global symbol of Christmas. It was composed by Ukrainian Mykola Leontovych, born on this day in 1877. Leontovych was a
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Do your reading interventions provide assessments that enable individualised instruction? Read more in our blog ‘15 Tests for secondary school reading interventions’ https://t.co/uNyZOqdwOe (5 min read).
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The longer we wait to intervene effectively, the harder it gets. Read more in our blog ‘There is Hope’ https://t.co/4iqmzuZi7O (4 min read). #EduTwitter
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. John Lennon photographed in the Dakota Building by Annie Leibovitz on 8 December 1980.
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