Nurturing a love of reading for all abilities has it's challenges - Dr Sarah Moseley will join SENDcast Sessions in May to share her expert advice with real world case studies 🙌

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How can you, as an educator, foster a love of reading in all your learners no matter their needs? 👩‍❤️‍👨

Dr Sarah Moseley joins us for this fascinating session - a must watch for all teachers! Just £10 - register here 👇

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What’s the difference between ‘affect’ and ‘effect’? 💭

In our free classroom poster, we’re helping beginner readers combat easily confusable words. Download this #teachingresource to help learners prevent the mix-up:

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If you’re looking for an inspirational, positive, creative, practical and thought-provoking end to the school year, you’ve found it

Why not come and join us for a coffee and chat this Thursday?

Exciting Bookpost! Thanks Pan Macmillan looking forward to devouring this graphic novel Richard Ruddick Sarah Merchant - Mathew Tobin One for the group perhaps? 🤔

When I watch this, it makes me think that this is both simple and yet revolutionary as an approach to the early development of oral composition. Talk for Writing.

Delivered an online staff meeting last week around building reading cultures in classrooms, with lots of practical ideas and tips (plus some research). The link is here if anyone wants to use it as a starting point. Hopefully, it's useful to people. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/rea…

It’s happening!

I've been reflecting a lot on appropriate expectations recently. I like these from Singapore for children aged 6-7, so by the end of our year 1 / start of year 2.

Pretty sure this will be in my top 10 #FavePicturebooks24 (we’re only in April)

“Two Together” by Brendan Wenzel is a truly joyous book about, perspectives, adventures and love. The art is simply stunning with clever use of materials adding to the story-telling #PicturebookPage

Laugh out loud hilarious as well as deeply moving- this is a very special text. 🥲Thanks Simon Smith for recc.
Somehow intimate, captures relationships authentically and sings off the page Simon James Green 👏👏

It is going to be a brilliant event. Having seen so many ITL ers virtually it will be great to meet them in person.

Thanks for sharing this one Ruth Swailes

I find this particularly interesting as I have a boy who struggles with 'be comfortable and happy with themselves'.

I feel as a society we have lost sight of just how important that bit and the last point is.

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Much of my work is with nonverbal autistic pupils so I am very excited by this piece of research.

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With thanks to The SEND AAC/Literacy Obsessive! Carla Nicholson. for the heads up.