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Jen O’Sullivan

@readwritejen.bsky.social

Lecturer in Literacy Education | Teacher Educator | PhD 🎓✏️📝 🇮🇪 Passionate about Early Reading Instruction | Reading Assessment | Reading Difficulties Books 📚 | Travel ✈️ | Food 🍝 Views = Mine

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Jen O’Sullivan@readwritejen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just shared a new post. I’ve brought together my original article on Reading Recovery, the Reading Recovery Europe response, and my rebuttal. An interesting example of how evidence is interpreted and debated in literacy. open.substack.com/pub/readwrit...

A Response, A Rebuttal, and an Ongoing Conversation About Reading Recovery

For the past number of years, I have been writing and speaking about early reading intervention in Ireland, often returning to the same underlying question: are we providing the right kind of support ...

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Mark Goodrich@markgoodrich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Second, @readwritejen.bsky.social goes for the weekly spelling test. Again, this is a feature of every primary school that I have ever taught in despite a lot of teachers, parents and children really wondering about its purpose. readwritejen.substack.com/p/the-friday...

The Friday Fiasco: Why the Weekly Spelling Test is a Pedagogical Dead End

Every Thursday evening, in homes up and down the country, a familiar routine plays out.

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Dr. Nadine Gaab@gaablab.bsky.social · last yr.

All #NIH grants have now terminated here at #Harvard, including ours, which examined shared/distinct underlying neural & cognitive mechanisms between typical/atypical #arithmetic and #reading skills. Results would have been invaluable for development of #screening, diagnostic, & intervention tools.

sadness from inside out is crying and saying it 's ok ... i 'm fine .

ALT: sadness from inside out is crying and saying it 's ok ... i 'm fine .

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Jen O’Sullivan@readwritejen.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks for sharing! @markgoodrich.bsky.social It’s a complicated process to describe but delighted you think I captured the essence of it!

Mark Goodrich@markgoodrich.bsky.social · last yr.

So #EduSky and #EduSkyPrimary, you really want read about orthographic mapping at the weekend, don’t you? This by @readwritejen.bsky.social is the best description I have read of how this works and why it is so important. open.substack.com/pub/readwrit...

Alex Quigley@alexjquigley.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨NEW🚨 'What is happening with writing?' "Schools are trying to support struggling writers with ‘build-your-own’ approaches & interventions. Writing lacks good diagnostic assessment as well as interventions to address problems that emerge through such assessment." alexquigley.co.uk/what-is-happ...

What is happening with writing?

Writing problems, and solutions, can too often go undetected in schools. Unlike reading, there are relatively few specific writing assessments to detect issues that schools can use, so it is hard to f...

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Jen O’Sullivan@readwritejen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great read ⬇️ Round robin/popcorn reading is very damaging to struggling readers. Also, the feedback given to children to support their reading is minimal. Could be doing so much more with our instructional time.

Alex Quigley@alexjquigley.bsky.social · 2y ago

‘Why should we read aloud in class?’ “The teacher reading aloud and expertly modelling fluency (pace, expression, volume etc.) is likely a better bet than selecting underpractised pupils to read.” alexquigley.co.uk/who-should-r...