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Literacy
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Playschool
"I don't think my mommy knew she had to buy me a book!" -
Dunce
The alphabet -
Tinker & Becki want to know everything!
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The drawing on a very expensive book episode
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The Congo
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Bliss the magazine and the dog
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Ghost stories and other things I wasn't supposed to write about
Ghosts in the girls toilets -
YAM YAM
Becki's yam yam alphabet. BCD dialect is not considered to be of high prestige. In fact Ed Conduit refers to it as a dialect associated with ‘rough manual work’ and also ‘poor education’ (2007:2). -
The Lord of the Rings
Welcome to the world of fantasy! -
Titanic the story that I never wanted published
School magazine- prestige
Would you like your story published?
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Swearing and voilence- How to grab a teenagers attention.
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What do you want to be when you're older?
The time I told my teacher I wanted to be a writer....and was shot down! -
English Literature
A- Level Lit -
Las Gaviotas- The beginning of a canarian guancha
Problemas con la 's'. Realising that the ability to speak a language does not always transfer directly into the ability to write in the said language. disparate acquisition. -
The start of Literacy from a different perspective
So, I'm pretty good at English BUT how the hell do I teach it?! Discovering the importance of phonemic awareness! -
Bilingual acquisition- what's the plan then?
My research into language acquisition. Is it possible to accelerate biligualism if the level of input is altered?
Can a 'receptive bilingual' become an 'ascendant bilingual' *? *According to Gass (2008:27) this is “someone whose ability to function in a second language develops due to increased use” or need to communicate in the said language. -
Excuse me, where are you from?
A very confused accent- except for in the company of Hannah! Reverting to a yam yam....
Codeswitching -
Learning Arabic
Starting to understand, for the first time, how difficult it can be to learn an alphabet with a non-alphabetic script and vice versa. Harmer (2007:325) states that “Writing communities frequently obey different punctuation /layout conventions which are usually non-transferable”. *p.s Leila and Majnun (Leila and the madman)
Arabic version of Romeo and Juliet- One of my favourite stories in English GCSE. -
Julia Donaldson
Literacy from the beginning again! -
The Future
Family Literacy.
assessment frustration-
“Writing for writing or writing for learning?” (Harmer 2007:330)
