Banter Booster #2: Useful tools and resources for speech pathologists

I have updated the Teaching by Science free SOR resources page. If you like free stuff check it out. It includes programs for phonics, morphology, vocabulary, and grammar, as well as assessments and decodables:

— Nate Joseph (@NateJoseph19)
Jan 18, 2023

Past-paper practice is exactly what exam-level students need.

Just remember the four R's:

📚 Reviewing
📚 Revising
📚 Retrieval
📚 Repetition

Read more here:

— Richard James Rogers (@richardjarogers)
Jan 26, 2023

🚨New paper: The effect of spacing versus massing on orthographic learning  Spacing boosts orthographic form learning relative to massing across three outcome measures @Huachen_Wang Lisi Beyersmann Erik Reichle @ReadOxford@annecastles

@MQCReading@PsyMQ

— Signy Wegener (@SignyWegener)
Jan 18, 2023

🎙️ New: “Evidence into Action” returns!

In the latest episode of our podcast, we focus on vocabulary and language development.  

Featuring @ally_wren, @ricketts_lara and @Marcusjones900

Listen now: eef.li/1H2HA1

— EEF (@EducEndowFoundn)
Jan 24, 2023

Three language games.

— Pie Corbett (@PieCorbett)
Jan 7, 2023

Talk for writing is a key part of our writing cycle ✍️ It helps embed writing skills and allows for creativity in the children’s innovative re-write. My class love becoming authors by changing the nouns, adjectives and adverbs in their own narratives #talkforwriting@PieCorbett

— Danielle Hartstone 🇦🇪 (@MissDHartstone)
Feb 2, 2023

75 ways to say NO.
Personal favourite: 57Sorry, I can’t. I have to walk my unicorn.

— Hugh Kearns (@ithinkwellHugh)
Jan 29, 2023

New publication using ELVS data shows consistently high responsive parental behaviours across infancy and toddlerhood are related to better child language outcomes in the early school years @paeadie@cristina_mckean

— Dr Penny Levickis (@penzyl)
Feb 2, 2023

Interesting blog on how classroom displays can distract.
Children were more distracted by the visual environment, spent more time off task, and demonstrated smaller learning gains when the walls were highly decorated than when the decorations were removed.
blog.innerdrive.co.uk/classroom-disp…

— Paul A. Kirschner (@P_A_Kirschner)
Feb 2, 2023

Our new OA article with Niels Buus and @ScottBarnesMQ now out in @FamilyProcess! The Open Dialogue approach advises therapists to repeat clients' prior talk to encourage elaboration. But repeats do much more than that!

— Ben Ong (@BenHLOng)
Jan 31, 2023

That thing where you learn one relatively small fact about a person you didn’t know very well and the entire nonsense backstory you’d told yourself about them is flipped on its head

— Lucy Wainwright (@Whoozley)
Jan 31, 2023

"Nothing really wonderful in your life, professionally or personally, will happen unless you subject yourself to an uncomfortable risk."
@profgalloway

— Content Philosopher ☕ (@Wizbit_io)
Jan 26, 2023

I’ll take a stab at this pointless language policing to suggest that there is no evidence of any kind that this has any discernible, measurable impact on anything, and can be ignored.

— Tom Bennett OBE (@tombennett71)
Feb 1, 2023