Considerations for Science of Reading conversations: Can I change your mind about changing minds?
We already know quite a lot about what works best in reading (and writing) instruction. We have had access to this body of knowledge for...
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Emina McLean
- Aug 14, 2020
- 1 min
Where do you stand?
Last night Professor Pamela Snow and I ran a Bendigo Early Language and Literacy Community of Practice conversation via Zoom. We...
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Emina McLean
- Jul 27, 2020
- 7 min
The importance of distrust and scepticism in education
This year I have read and re-read Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw’s book, ‘A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World’. She is an...
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Emina McLean
- Jul 23, 2020
- 6 min
Spelling instruction: What’s the evidence?
Every teacher teaches spelling, but like with word-level reading instruction, what is taught and how it is taught are highly variable...
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Emina McLean
- Jun 23, 2020
- 7 min
Teaching word-level reading
Two significant papers were published in the last fortnight. They were: Buckingham, J. (2020). Systematic phonics instruction belongs in...
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Emina McLean
- Jun 15, 2020
- 8 min
Curriculum, learning progression, scope and sequence and lesson plan
The Australian Curriculum: English It aims to ensure that students “learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on...
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Emina McLean
- Jun 11, 2020
- 8 min
How to teach: It is bigger than The Reading Wars
What are The Reading Wars? A quick Google will tell you that most major newspapers have written about The Reading Wars here in Australia...
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Emina McLean
- Jun 2, 2020
- 9 min
Is professional learning effective?
I had the privilege of speaking on this topic at researchED Melbourne last year. This blogpost is an updated expansion. Schools are as...
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Emina McLean
- May 21, 2020
- 8 min
The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children: Literacy in higher education and beyond
I spent the first twenty years of my life fervently Christian, then five to ten years as a furious atheist, and now five to ten years...
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Emina McLean
- May 15, 2020
- 13 min
Adolescent literacy in Australia: Part 2
As evidenced in my previous blogpost, adolescent literacy skills leave a lot to be desired in Australia. Our Year 9 students perform...
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Emina McLean
- May 4, 2020
- 4 min
Adolescent literacy in Australia: Part 1
This is a two-part series about adolescent literacy. Appropriately, when we talk about literacy, we tend to focus on the early years in...
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Emina McLean
- May 1, 2020
- 4 min
Reading assessment in Victorian schools
When familiar with the Simple View of Reading and the cognitive science regarding effective teaching and learning, teachers and school...
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Emina McLean
- Mar 20, 2020
- 12 min
How to teach vocabulary for reading comprehension
A little about vocabulary Vocabulary tiers Vocabulary can be divided into three tiers. They are: Tier 1 - common in oral language, likely...
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Emina McLean
- Mar 11, 2020
- 5 min
Should I teach oral language as part of LC in The Simple View?
Yes but…. Don’t throw away your oral language curriculum just yet. What Timothy Shanahan is saying (according to my interpretation) is...
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Emina McLean
- Mar 10, 2020
- 6 min
Linguistic Comprehension: Not a Simple View of Language
Over the weekend, Timothy Shanahan threw a cat among the pigeons again: https://shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/why-following-the-simple-view...
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