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S4 Ep15 - Summer Series - Five Ways to Get Ready for the Coming Change

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Getting your team on the bus of consistent, explicit teaching in the early years is no easy task. A few years ago, I developed a course called Reading Success in the Early Primary Years and a little while later, published a book with the same name through Routledge, a well-known academic publisher. I am so pleased to announce that I'm running this highly practical online course again in 2025, to help your team build a more robust understanding of what structured l…

Dec 1, 2024 08:00am

By Jocelyn Seamer

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S3 Ep18 - Explicit Instruction That Doesn't Come At The Expense Of High Flyers

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Hello and welcome to the Structured Literacy Podcast, the podcast where we keep it real about what it's like to shift practice and teach in a way that reflects evidence from research. As much as I'd like to give you a set of general principles about instruction that will work perfectly in every situation in school, I'm afraid it doesn't actually work that way. Yes, there are some considerations and principles about instruction that apply across contexts that w…

Jun 2, 2024 08:00am

By Jocelyn Seamer

Under education, evidence based instruction, Evidence based practice, reading instruction, Explicit teaching, explicit instruction, supporting students with additional needs, structured literacy, Maximise student achievement, literacy, classroom communication, decision making, upper primary, teaching reading, how to teach reading & fluency

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