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Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪 @diannemurphy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Ld45KhGTrY via change.org

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

You are cordially invited to our new website! Explore, enjoy and ask questions. thatreadingthing.com

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Please share with your primary teacher friends.

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Claire R @clairer123.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Been working with teens excluded from school. All have #SEND (most commonly ASD/ADHD/DLD) but were either diagnosed too late or not even assessed until after they were excluded. It’s heartbreaking ‘81% of children with behavioural disorders have significant language difficulties’

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Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪 @diannemurphy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hmmm - considering that NZ women won the vote in 1893, I think not 🙄

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Word Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The education select committee has an inquiry on 'Solving the SEND crisis.' The list of questions is long and the time is short (Jan 30th), but even a short response mentioning your concerns about #DevLangDis and #SLCN can make a difference. committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

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Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

Solving the SEND Crisis

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Reading is not just about having a love of books, nor just being able to accurately lift words off the page. It's a product of both. The simple view of reading, by Gough & Tunmer (1986) is something all teachers should be aware of. Professional learning for teachers www.impact.wales

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Can we please stretch this to including students on the very fringes of education, even the ones some teachers have written off? A youth worker/TRT tutor was asked if That Reading Thing is fun & she answered, 'No, (shocked silence), but it's so satisfying they come back for more.' Best review ever.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Favourite mnemonic? Labelling of axes on graphs. Y’d awake, vertical. X’hausted, horizontal.

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Gav Cass @gavcass.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tan y Gaer Coffi has arrived! Ethically sourced, roasted by @wrexhambean, and proudly supporting @Teams4u. Students in our Alternative Provision are involved in every step of the process, from concept to delivery. Learning skills and making a difference. hoffcoffi.com

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A whole English lesson in a meme. Poetry, homographs (UK & Canada), homonyms (USA, apparently), using context to check meaning, synonyms across dialects (sack, bag & refuse, garbage, rubbish, trash).

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We've been missing a trick here at That Reading Thing.

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

‪ Getting ready for tomorrow's session for NATECLA and Novus. Phonics for prison ESOL tutors. Including the famous British English final schwa conundrum which plagues even native speakers.

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Others writers and content creators who use MS Office might find this interesting and worrisome. It's vague, but it appears that disallowing MS from scraping content from your documents requires turning off autosave. Get used to frequent saving while you write! answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Mika madly wrestling with the carpet and her little green ball. Hold it. Mika doesn't have a little green ball.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 18/11/2024

A note on "comic sans is easier for dyslexics to read:" there's no evidence of the efficacy of "dyslexic friendly" fonts: dyslexiaida.org/do-special-f... Other studies have similarly shown no difference between common fonts for reading speed and fluency

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Do Special Fonts Help People with Dyslexia? - International Dyslexia Association

Christian Boer, a self-identified individual with dyslexia and developer of the Dyslexie font, claims that the font positively impacts the reading performance

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Sarah Johnson (was Dove) @phoenixedsarah.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My first contribution as a columnist for Special Needs Jungle. My main focus will be on Alternative Provision #thisisAP #SEMH

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Lift

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Liza @liza-on-reading.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is a great episode - I leap at any opportunity to learn from @trttricia.bsky.social. Too much to summarize here, but I appreciate her commitment to developing tools that non-experts can use. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...

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Ep.97-Adolescent Literacy Solutions with Tricia Millar Part 2

Podcast Episode · The Literacy View · 2024-10-25 · 1h 4m

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Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪 @diannemurphy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Updated my starter pack on the Effective Teaching of Reading - researchers, practitioners and advocates 👇🏼 go.bsky.app/Usy7iDv

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is the best way I can think to introduce That Reading Thing (TRT) to #thisisAP. What happens in the very 1st session? TRT is meticulously structured so students feel safe as they make measurable gains.

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@pruenglish.bsky.social Was literally (in the proper English teacher sense) just wondering if there was a PRU English account to follow and up you popped!

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘Eye Rhyme Calamity at the Annual World Limerick Contest’.

Eye Rhyme Calamity at the
Annual World Limerick Contest

There was a young poet from Slough,
Who hadn’t prepared quite enough.
He started to read
Then wished himself dead,
Having failed to think his rhymes through.

His brain must be made out of dough,
So slapdash, careless, unthorough!
Mumbling into his beard,
He made them unheard
And ended each line with a cough.

Brian Bilston

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James McTaggart @jamesedpsych.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Wow, a treasure trove of research and resources on speech, language and communication here! languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com

Screenshot showing a range of research papers on language and communication

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A very short 🧵about creating a culture of spelling that is both rigorous and inclusive. Let's dream a little... 🟢What if, in every upper primary, middle and high school classroom, spelling became a conversation that anyone could initiate? 1/3

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

High school literacy plan: 🟣 A quick 1-1 & SOR supported intervention like That Reading Thing for those who need it. 🟢Every teacher confident in a quick spelling approach that won't take up more than a couple of minutes of class time. That Spelling Thing available from Amazon in your country.

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The Literacy View @theliteracyview.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Always a fan of “somewhere in between.” 👍👍 Why?🧐 Because people who do the work know that the answers can be nuanced. FRIDAY!! The Literacy View!! 🎧🎙️👀 thatspellingthing.com/plural-cance... #theliteracyview #edusky #WLS25 @trttricia.bsky.social

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Spelling Series – Plural cancelling e

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The Literacy View @theliteracyview.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

***Next Up*** Getting Real with Tricia Millar She does the work! 💪 Roll up your sleeves and join us for some real talk 🎙️ . . . . . . #theliteracyview #realteachers #lettingloose #WLS25 #edchat #literacy #teachers #education #edusky

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Mika has branched out, though still stuck in initial code. Fat cat sat in a bag. (She's not fat!)

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Ann Sullivan - Phonics for SEN @phonicsforsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Three weeks to go to @DiscoverInclusion’s Access to Academic Learning Conference. A super opportunity for some CPD for teachers and TAs working with children with complex needs. Access all the videos throughout October and watch the presentations at your leisure.

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

New post: relieving the anxiety felt by struggling readers. Some hide their anxiety and suffer quietly while others express it in disruptive or self-harming behaviour. There are young people who panic at the sight of text in every secondary school. Read more... thatreadingthing.com/teens-anxiet...

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Intro 3 This is Mika the tiny cat who shows up occasionally. She's her own being - brings us gifts of leaves & moss rather than wildlife. Does a mean 'fat cat sat on mat' (Hollywood 'fat'; she only weighs 2.5kg) & is branching out into centerpiece modelling but suffers from resting grump face.

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Elizabeth Draper @draperel @draperel.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

This is useful for new Bluesky folk ⬇️

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Ann Sullivan - Phonics for SEN @phonicsforsen.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

I've just finished recording my presentation for Discover Inclusion's up-coming conference on Access to Academic Learning. I hope you'll join me as I talk about literacy opportunities for all - and I do mean ALL! More information about the conference can be found here: discoverinclusion.co.uk

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

I figure this is a good first Bluesky post. Our chapter on JSTOR. It's the story of the roots, whys & wherefores of That Reading Thing told with help from Stef Boyle (a youth worker) & Laney Muir (a support assistant). www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

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10 Teaching-free literacy: working with teenagers and young adults working with teenagers and young adults from Teaching Literacies in Diverse Contexts on JSTOR

Tricia Millar, Stefanie Boyle, Laney Muir, Teaching-free literacy:, Teaching Literacies in Diverse Contexts, pp. 153-168

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