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Promoting and Managing Effective Group Work

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Belfast Education & Library Board (BELB, 2009)   Research has shown that an important factor in improving pupils’ learning, motivation and behaviour at school is the opportunity for them to work successfully in groups. Given that we retain 90% of what we say and do, it would therefore seem only fitting that the promotion of…

Effective Teaching of Inference Skills in the Primary Years

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Donna Thomson, Think2Read, 2006 ‘Reading pictures can be as easy or difficult as reading printed text.’ Gomez-Reino, 1996 My research into how to teach young children explicit inference skills began in 2001 when I observed that there was a discrepancy in my school between many of our fluent reader’s ability to read and their overall…