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My Three Wishes for Schools in 2025

My Three Wishes for Schools in 2025By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 15/01/2025

Scope exists for disciplined innovation in schools. If schools were encouraged to extend conventional approaches to the teaching of early reading, and if this was done in a systematic, rigorous and methodical way, many children would benefit.

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My Three Wishes for Schools in 2025

Finding fluency: 'Place not Pace' in early reading

Finding fluency: 'Place not Pace' in early readingBy: Dr Marion Long Published on: 19/02/2024

A child builds a sense of mastery through repetition, reviewing and building familiarity with new words in their context (their place). This important sense of context, together with sensitivity to rhythm support the development of fluent reading.

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Finding fluency: 'Place not Pace' in early reading

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“It’s only an hour that they have with your over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.”

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