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Literacy – The Ability to Read ‘and’ Write

  This week’s blog post is about ‘Literacy’. Helping students and other educators build their literacy capacity through a greater understanding of our language’s Orthography (the conventions of a language’s writing system) is my passion.   It’s important to show students that our writing system helps us to: – convey ideas to others through writingContinue reading Literacy – The Ability to Read ‘and’ Write

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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ – Getting Forensic to Detect the Spelling of Scientific Words

  One of my students loves the Netflix show, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’.  As luck would have it, I do too!  I’ve watched every episode.  This particular student came to me feeling quite despondent after a Science exam at school last week.  The student thought they’d done really well in the main part of the exam, butContinue reading ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ – Getting Forensic to Detect the Spelling of Scientific Words