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Dave Fletcher's avatar

Thanks for sharing thoughts on your path to, and the challenges of, secondary English teaching. It resonates with me because I’ve followed a similar trajectory, learning everything useful about literacy teaching through independent study beyond my ITE (which was practically useless). I now spend a lot of time thinking about how to integrate language and learning science into my classroom practice. I too start with the reading rope and defining key terms from both the word recognition and language comprehension strands. I live in hope that one day before I retire my new year 7 classes will look at me impatiently and groan ‘sir, we already know this!’

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Melinda de Haan's avatar

This reflects the experience of so many of us English teachers. Thanks for sharing.

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