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Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪
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Co-Founder and Programme Designer at Thinking Reading. Intervention is only successful if students catch up completely. Instructivist. DI fan. Alfie.

Web: www.thinkingreading.com
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A short intro:

📕 I’m a mission-focussed secondary school reading specialist.
📗 I have post-grad qualifications in special education.
📘 I’ve designed a powerful intervention based on DI & PT.
📙 Advocating for explicit SOR instruction.

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This is Alice, a trainer at Thinking Reading 📚
September 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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We can also be found on LinkedIn - if you're over do come and say hello! We'd love to connect with the reading and education community over there too. #UKEd #EduBlogUK
September 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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One of our Directors of Training shares why she works at Thinking Reading 📚
September 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Sunday & + 3 links to this collection of links to #freeaccess #edu content👇🏻
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Today about #result #reports (fake or real) in a world of #competition & what result might be for #students & #schools?
Thanks to authors❣️

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September 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Sunday & 1 link added to this searchable & translatable collection of links to free access #edu content
saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com

Thanks to the author, @bennewmark.bsky.social❣️

Do spread- this website is meant to be used…

Have a restful day!
September 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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❓Why are both our organisation, and our teaching programme, called ‘Thinking Reading?’ Glad you asked!
September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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'women have been known to have interesting interior lives even over the age of 35' who knew? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... enjoyed this @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
Taylor Swift: engaged, mummy-tracked and doomed to tradwifedom? You really haven’t been listening | Gaby Hinsliff
Critics say marriage will kill her creativity. Not likely for an artist who’s made billions from songs about redefining women’s limits, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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August 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I Might Be Wrong, But... This “Edtech Revolution” Might Just Be the Next Big Fail (and got me fuming) theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/08/26/i...
I Might Be Wrong, But... This “Edtech Revolution” Might Just Be the Next Big Fail (and got me fuming)
Unpack the AI-powered gaming education hype surrounding ExoDexa and its claims to revolutionize learning through fun.
theeconomyofmeaning.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🔥 One of the largest suppliers of oil products in the south of Russia, the Novoshakhtinsk Refinery, continues to be closed for the 5th day in a row.

Reuters writes that oil prices are rising after Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy facilities.

A nice video from yesterday! 🤩
August 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
August 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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💙💛 Ukraine Flag Day celebrated in Europe

🇪🇺 30-meter Ukrainian flag was unfurled opposite the European Parliament.

🇵🇱 In Poland, activists painted the asphalt near the Russian embassy blue and yellow.

🇱🇻 In Latvia, the building of MFA was illuminated with blue and yellow flowers.
August 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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August 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Being more efficient relies on the quality and scope of our data.

Read more in our blog ‘Can We Do More With Less?’ wp.me/p4hKgx-z9 (4 min read).

#EduBlog #UKEd #EduSky
July 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Excellent article on the problems caused by labelling versus teaching kids what they need to know.

From @paulkirschner.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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July 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🥳 The ‘holy grail’ of reading inventions that was birthed in NZ & exported to the world has finally been dumped. Now the way is clear for children to receive scientifically-based instruction & stop being instructional casualties. H/T @kathyrastle.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
AJLD EMINENT RESEARCHER AWARD WINNER 2024 Professor James Chapman: The rise and demise of reading recovery in New Zealand
Reading Recovery (RR) was introduced throughout New Zealand during the 1980s, for children struggling the most with learning to read after 1 year of formal schooling. In May 2024, the Minister of E...
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July 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Nice to see this work getting noticed. Lots of teachers and students quietly doing amazing stuff around the country.
We are delighted our literacy programme is featured on ITV Meridian. Congratulations to all the pupils for the progress they have made with their reading & to their teachers who have worked tirelessly to support them.

Watch here: www.itv.com/watch/news/s...

#UKEd @itvnews.bsky.social
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July 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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1. More great news from one of our partner schools. The proof is in the pudding, & here is the pudding 😁 A partner school in north Kent has now almost eliminated the problem of poor reading in their students.
July 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM