Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪
@diannemurphy.bsky.social
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
Web: www.thinkingreading.com
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There’s been a big surge of new followers on here!
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.
Alfie 🐩
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.
Alfie 🐩
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This is Alice, a trainer at Thinking Reading 📚
September 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is Alice, a trainer at Thinking Reading 📚
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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
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
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One of our Directors of Training shares why she works at Thinking Reading 📚
September 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
One of our Directors of Training shares why she works at Thinking Reading 📚
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September 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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❣️
Do spread- site is meant to be used…
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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❣️
Do spread- site is meant to be used…
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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
❓Why are both our organisation, and our teaching programme, called ‘Thinking Reading?’ Glad you asked!
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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
'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
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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
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...
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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! 🤩
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
🔥 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! 🤩
Reuters writes that oil prices are rising after Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy facilities.
A nice video from yesterday! 🤩
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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
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.
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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.
🇪🇺 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
💙💛 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.
🇪🇺 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.
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A showy snowy #snowyegret #egrets #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #canon
August 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A showy snowy #snowyegret #egrets #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #canon
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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
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
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
Read more in our blog ‘Can We Do More With Less?’ wp.me/p4hKgx-z9 (4 min read).
#EduBlog #UKEd #EduSky
Excellent article on the problems caused by labelling versus teaching kids what they need to know.
From @paulkirschner.bsky.social
From @paulkirschner.bsky.social
What's in a name? “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.
Changing the label doesn't solve the problem. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/07/27/l...
Changing the label doesn't solve the problem. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/07/27/l...
Language - kirschner-ED
If neurodiversity is a strength or a unique cognitive profile, why do we intervene? If it’s “not something broken that needs to be fixed”, why are we spending so much time and money to fix it?
www.kirschnered.nl
July 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Excellent article on the problems caused by labelling versus teaching kids what they need to know.
From @paulkirschner.bsky.social
From @paulkirschner.bsky.social
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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🥳 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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reposted by Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪
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
Watch here: www.itv.com/watch/news/s...
#UKEd @itvnews.bsky.social
www.itv.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Nice to see this work getting noticed. Lots of teachers and students quietly doing amazing stuff around the country.
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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
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.