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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 · 30/01/2025

So true. They are often the only people who really understand what's going on in your life and your head. Great advice.

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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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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As a Canadian child watching American tv, the School House Rock "Elbow Room" song about manifest destiny used to give me the chills. Nothing has changed, it seems.

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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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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

If they're men who follow only women, I block. It might not be perfect but I'm never felt guilty for doing it.

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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

'Hard fun' is a superb design mantra. ❤️ I had a similar comment before a training. A woman said her colleague warned her it wasn't one of those 'training days where you do nothing' - a great compliment but how sad that schools are paying for 'do-nothing' CPD. Staff and students deserve better.

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

That is completely possible! I'm now picturing Ted wandering around in Upper Canada (which hasn't existed since 1841).

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

Didn't even notice till you pointed it out. :-)

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

I wonder if the other D is difficulty moving - still on the St John Ambulance site re fractures - and assume Pain and Tenderness the same. Well I think we've found the solution. Thank you so much.

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

Hooray! Finally. And what does PILSDUCT stand for?

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

This mnemonic has stuck in my head since a first aid course in the 70s. Sadly I have no idea what it's supposed to help me remember. Anyone? Poor Little Susie Dropped Dead In Upper Canada

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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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hoffcoffi

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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 · 11/12/2024

Fun and also why I frequently consult dictionaries. 😀

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I've been banging that drum for over 20 years now. Some are better than others but they all progress too slowly for vast majority of students doing That Reading Thing. Teens have so much latent knowledge that needs to be unlocked.

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

No, I haven't. Where can I access that? I've met so many adults over the years who suffered terribly because they were dyslexic and it still happens today though in a more subtle, less physical way. thatreadingthing.com/inclusion-de...

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Inclusion – deep, wide and welcoming – That Reading Thing

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Tricia Millar 'That Reading Thing' @trttricia.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I think the switch will be worth the hard work.

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

And here I thought we were doing ok without drugs. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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

This week feels so different. Here's hoping.

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

Thanks for doing that, Dianne. Quite the gang!

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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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