Metacognition and Practice Testing

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This episode looks at the research to discover how students’ beliefs, how they monitor their learning, and how their sense of control can impact on the learning process. ReferenceRivers, M. L. (2021). Metacognition about practice testing: A review of learners’ … Continued

Spaced Practice

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Carpenter (2025) argues that “successful learning is not the total time spent learning, but the way in which that studying and teaching time is used.” One strategy for improving learning is ‘spaced practice’ in which multiple learning sessions are spread … Continued

Create a Literacy Trail

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A StoryWalk trail is essentially a trail along which pages of a book are posted onto signs. It is a way to engage readers and encourage physical activity. The idea is that you walk along the trail stopping to read … Continued

Teaching Nouns

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A noun is a ‘naming word’. If refers to things that you can see, touch, hear, taste, smell, think about or experience. If it is something you can perceive using your senses (book, noise, odour, sourness), it is a concrete … Continued

Multisensory Teaching

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This episode discusses multisensory learning and multisensory integration and then looks at the research around using multisensory strategies to promote learning and how these strategies can be applied to helping students learn to read and spell.