I’m so sorry to hear this. Dawn was inspiring, generous & contributed immensely to the profession. My deepest condolences 🙏🏽

Surely, it is more effective to train teachers in proven methods that produce capable readers than training them to use adaptive teaching techniques. One produces independence for children, the other dependence.

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Yes exactly. Absolute P8 for disadvantage is exactly what I mean.

I’m curious what work is being done to study schools where the socio-economic attainment gap is smallest. How can we replicate their success? Is this being looked at?

I take it not veggie, then?

Now I want all the details: where is this?! 😍

Not much variety, is there?

Yes, at times! I also use it for recap, which, depending on group can be varying time.

But a choral response is just a format for a question. So lots of factors might affect its deployment.

In this blog I focus on its use for phase 1 questioning - sustaining attention.

Appreciate the words of encouragement! I try to share concrete ideas as much as possible with the thinking underpinning them, in the hope teachers who are interested can apply immediately & intelligently to their settings.

Not just time, but also extent & complexity of recall depending on cues given.

Yes - it’s not an inconsistency; it’s a sliding scale. ‘I say you say’ is direct repetition but choral response (‘on 3, 123’) could be recall of older content or recently spoken content but still requires slightly more work than the former.

Thanks Mark! Yes - this always surprises teachers. But I swear by these strategies!