Mark Goodrich
@markgoodrich.bsky.social
Was a lawyer, now a primary teacher. Interested in politics, chess, citizenship and education especially reading and maths. Has lived in 🇯🇵🇰🇷and now in 🇱🇦. https://open.substack.com/pub/markgoodrich
OK - smashed it with over a month to go. What do I challenge myself to next year #BookSky ? @thestorygraph.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
OK - smashed it with over a month to go. What do I challenge myself to next year #BookSky ? @thestorygraph.com
For this, I have to go with the amazing Orphans of the Tide by @struan-murray.bsky.social. Just a brilliant and fantastically constructed book. #KidLitUK
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
For this, I have to go with the amazing Orphans of the Tide by @struan-murray.bsky.social. Just a brilliant and fantastically constructed book. #KidLitUK
Hi #EduRunners, 7k today and i don’t know how I am going to cope back in the UK when I can’t finish with a coffee and a Lao-style banh mi!
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hi #EduRunners, 7k today and i don’t know how I am going to cope back in the UK when I can’t finish with a coffee and a Lao-style banh mi!
Late to it and lots of interesting choices already but nobody has mentioned Stewart Foster’s All the Things that could go Wrong. Great unlikely friendship story. Also worth the classic The Whsipering Mountain by Joan Aiken has a friendship at its heart as well as much more besides. #KidLitUK
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Late to it and lots of interesting choices already but nobody has mentioned Stewart Foster’s All the Things that could go Wrong. Great unlikely friendship story. Also worth the classic The Whsipering Mountain by Joan Aiken has a friendship at its heart as well as much more besides. #KidLitUK
Moving Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the British Embassy this morning.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Moving Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the British Embassy this morning.
Included screen shots for more detail!
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Included screen shots for more detail!
Looking at the @theguardian.com live test and reminded that there is a good reason that the baseball study is the most famous example of background knowledge aiding comprehension.
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Looking at the @theguardian.com live test and reminded that there is a good reason that the baseball study is the most famous example of background knowledge aiding comprehension.
#Edurunners
Classic 5K around the artificial lake in #Vientiane.
Actually a bit cooler than in has been but I still end up looking like a beetroot and the iced coffee is very much needed!
Classic 5K around the artificial lake in #Vientiane.
Actually a bit cooler than in has been but I still end up looking like a beetroot and the iced coffee is very much needed!
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
#Edurunners
Classic 5K around the artificial lake in #Vientiane.
Actually a bit cooler than in has been but I still end up looking like a beetroot and the iced coffee is very much needed!
Classic 5K around the artificial lake in #Vientiane.
Actually a bit cooler than in has been but I still end up looking like a beetroot and the iced coffee is very much needed!
It’s been my theme of the week. Did you see the @teachertapp.bsky.social questions on it? This result surprised a few!
November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It’s been my theme of the week. Did you see the @teachertapp.bsky.social questions on it? This result surprised a few!
Dunking on people is not my style but I will make a slight exception here...Garvey is on here and his bio is a pathetic attempt to get people to come back to X because he got no traction here. Would love to know his theory of how Musk comes to not be in charge of *the platform he owns*.
November 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Dunking on people is not my style but I will make a slight exception here...Garvey is on here and his bio is a pathetic attempt to get people to come back to X because he got no traction here. Would love to know his theory of how Musk comes to not be in charge of *the platform he owns*.
A shame that his reported behaviour casts a bit of a shadow over all his work but The Graveyard Book is a brilliantly rich text (and not that scary!). #KidsBookFriday #KidLitUK
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A shame that his reported behaviour casts a bit of a shadow over all his work but The Graveyard Book is a brilliantly rich text (and not that scary!). #KidsBookFriday #KidLitUK
A fun little activity relevant to levelled readers. Take a look these two pictures and tell me which level you think they both are. #EduSkyPrimary
Rainforest- ??
Vikings - ??
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Vikings - ??
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A fun little activity relevant to levelled readers. Take a look these two pictures and tell me which level you think they both are. #EduSkyPrimary
Rainforest- ??
Vikings - ??
Rainforest- ??
Vikings - ??
Going to be 40 million in the next few days….might be a good time to ask your friends to join.
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Going to be 40 million in the next few days….might be a good time to ask your friends to join.
Now that made by think of Cogheart by @peterbunzl.bsky.social! Also, just a wonderful novel incorporating adventure and deeper questions. It seems I need steampunk to get me out of reading slumps…
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Now that made by think of Cogheart by @peterbunzl.bsky.social! Also, just a wonderful novel incorporating adventure and deeper questions. It seems I need steampunk to get me out of reading slumps…
Loads of great choices already! Would have said Podkin if it hadn’t already gone but am instead going to pick Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy. Classic scenario coupled with wonderful world building and there are great sequels to it as well.
October 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Loads of great choices already! Would have said Podkin if it hadn’t already gone but am instead going to pick Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy. Classic scenario coupled with wonderful world building and there are great sequels to it as well.
Well, it was a long drive but worth it for this!
October 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Well, it was a long drive but worth it for this!
Also, very excited to have just received these @daisychristo.bsky.social back catalogue classics. You can thank / blame @adamboxereducation.bsky.social for regularly saying on his podcast that every teacher should have read Seven Myths About Education!
October 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Also, very excited to have just received these @daisychristo.bsky.social back catalogue classics. You can thank / blame @adamboxereducation.bsky.social for regularly saying on his podcast that every teacher should have read Seven Myths About Education!
This was one of the “unhinged” literary opinions I endorsed earlier and, quite by chance, this book arrived today. It’s short but packed with absolute zingers. #KidLit
October 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This was one of the “unhinged” literary opinions I endorsed earlier and, quite by chance, this book arrived today. It’s short but packed with absolute zingers. #KidLit
One book which I have found that a lot of dyslexic and struggling readers have enjoyed is Race to the Frozen North by Catherine Johnson. (Reading age 8 but targeted at readers a couple of years older).
October 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
One book which I have found that a lot of dyslexic and struggling readers have enjoyed is Race to the Frozen North by Catherine Johnson. (Reading age 8 but targeted at readers a couple of years older).
This is part of a interesting thread from @suchmo83.bsky.social at the other place on why a further phonics check at Year 3 would not be a good idea. I agree with him on that although schools should have their own ways of monitoring and helping children whose phonics knowledge is still weak.
September 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is part of a interesting thread from @suchmo83.bsky.social at the other place on why a further phonics check at Year 3 would not be a good idea. I agree with him on that although schools should have their own ways of monitoring and helping children whose phonics knowledge is still weak.
One my daughter loved with some strong messages and themes.
September 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
One my daughter loved with some strong messages and themes.
It’s easy to see why there were 3 Marks in my class at school and none in any class now!
September 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It’s easy to see why there were 3 Marks in my class at school and none in any class now!