Only *4 DAYS* until Pint of Science arrives in Egham! 🧠🍺

Come along and learn all about the amazing science going on at Royal Holloway Psychology.

Grab your £5 tickets here: bit.ly/43S0pKz #pint24

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Thrilled to announce our keynote speaker, Professor Helen Pote (Helen Pote )! Get ready for a great lineup of speakers featuring Dawn Watling, Dr Saloni Krishnan, Jessie Ricketts, Kathy Rastle, Dr. Kaili Rimfeld, and more. Stay tuned for updates!
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This is a great opportunity for teachers and other professionals working in schools to share thinking about new research. My lab will be sharing new insights from our analysis of the language used in 1200 books for children and young people. See you there!

In 1996, two academics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, launched a new programming language.

25 years later, this language is one of the most widely used in the world.

Here's the story of R:

#rstats

Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM on the publication of her Churchill Fellowship report into literacy policy and practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Read more here hubs.la/Q02whRwJ0 #ChurchillFellow #literacy #research

New measure in the ROAR suite just published today - nice work Liesbeth Gijbels Wanjing Anya Ma Amy Burkhardt ! We were all surprised and excited to see how well an online task could do in measuring phonological awareness doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

There’s been some great feedback on this ‘lecture’ on comprehension, so I’m retweeting it again for the people in the back.

If you are interested in vocabulary development, Kathy Rastle did the research!
Love that she has a blog in plain English in addition to her research article!! BOTH are in the show notes!!
theliteracyview.com

The One and Only, Dr. Kathy Rastle,
1200 books analyzed build the Vocabulary Castle! 🪄🏰📚
Judy Boksner Kathy Rastle
theliteracyview.com

‘Science of reading’ movement spells financial trouble for publisher Heinemann apmreports.org/story/2024/04/…

Brand New‼️

Finally Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension Get The Respect They Deserve🎉

Link to Listen:🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Link to Watch:📺 youtu.be/GvY1HTujkkw?si…

High Five Literacy #theliteracyview #realteachers #teacherfriends #notsponsoredbypublishers Kathy Rastle

Loved speaking with High Five Literacy and Judy Boksner on The Literacy View about what we've learned from our Economic and Social Research Council QJEP analysis of 1200 children's books (CYP-LEX). Thank you for having me!

Listen here for a chat with Heather & Jane about some of my favourite topics!

Nice reviews received for this short online English vocab test by Bobby Po-Heng Chen
The test is already available to use in Gorilla Experiment Builder with details in the preprint. Watch this space for the final paper.

Kieran let me turn my 40 minute ResearchED presentation into over an hour. I cover:

📕 why we think comprehension is a discrete skill that can be trained and transferred

🔥 comprehension question types can get in the bin

🔴🟡🟢 RAG rating sats is a waste of time

And more

It is nearly time for the portals to open for #EPSYork24 !

The portals for talk and poster submissions will open at 10am (UK time) on Monday April 22nd 2024 and will remain open for a minimum of 24 hours.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Excited to see our new QJEP Economic and Social Research Council research on children’s books featured in Tes! Thanks to Alex Quigley for summarising the work and discussing its classroom implications. 📚

'New research from Kathy Rastle & colleagues captures the nature of the special words children read, & why these are different to the language of other media.' Alex Quigley in Tes: tes.com/magazine/teach…

Excited to see our new QJEP Economic and Social Research Council research on children’s books featured in Tes! Thanks to Alex Quigley for summarising the work and discussing its classroom implications. 📚