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I last posted at the end of March to say that my book was being published in April. Well, there was a delay but it is finally out. It was available for the first time on 6th Nov. I have waited such a long time for this to be published and am so relieved that it is finally here. I just hope someone buys it now :) 

V excited as I have a book coming out in April, with Lynn Erler. Lynn is the researcher at Oxford Uni who started the whole 'Phonics Revolution' in primary languages, with the research she did, especially into beginning learners' reading skills in French.

I joined forces with Lynn years ago when I read her research and developed some classroom activities for teaching phonics. The first was the Phoneme-Grapheme Running Game (devised back in 2004), closely followed by my 'Little Pots of…

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A few people have been asking me if I'm still "down under" so I thought I'd post what's happening. We have been in Brisbane, Queensland, for 3 years (and 5 days) but are now moving back to the UK...on Wednesday.

I'm looking forward to catching up with many of you at the Languages SE conference or the PLS. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to the snow, though. It's 33 degrees here!

Thought I would start of fmy first blog post by copying a message I sent to the ELL forum earlier this week in response to a series of grammatically themed posts by John Bald. Here's what I wrote...





"Thanks for these postings, John. They've made really interesting reading. I think it is really important that we don't shy away from issues such as spelling and grammar at KS2 and your ideas show that it can be fun (I know of teachers who say they don't do any writing at KS2 coz… Continue