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Narelle Daffurn
@narelledaff.bsky.social
PhD in Multiliteracies, multimodality and identity negotiation. I only follow recommended discussants/posters. Hey @bsky.app I have an inflated number of followers, as that number includes people I’ve blocked.
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Trump systematically hunting down everything that makes America great and destroying it
News: Journalists at Voice of America were just informed that they’ve been put on administrative leave. Two people there told me this went to all fulltime employees.

“From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.”
March 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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There are still tickets available for the More Than Just A Dog get together and chat on 5th March at Waterstones in Aberdeen. Get your book signed. I'll do my best to be entertaining 😉
February 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot
It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Notice the nice DOWNWARD SOR trend in NAEP reading?
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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📢 Publication alert!

💡 Check out "We Don’t Talk About Race In The Classroom”: Chinese DLBE Teachers’ Raciolinguistic Ideologies, Critical Consciousness Evasion, and Language And Literacy Instructional Practices” by @nuoxu.bsky.social & Verónica E. Valdez at journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr...
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Online Talk: “Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness” by Nicola Daly
The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group at UC Santa Barbara
22 January 2025
4 PM PST
Website: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/resear...
January 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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This is exactly what scientists predicted would happen.
January 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Since May 2024, The Reading Teacher has had a new Editorial Board. We think it's time for some introductions.

#teaching #reading #journal
January 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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It's finally out! Read about our new small group intervention, "Complex text and fluency: Evaluating the read like us protocol with third and fourth grade students" 50 free prints link below. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UWWAN...
Complex text and fluency: Evaluating the read like us protocol with third and fourth grade students
This matched-sample study investigates the use of a wide range of texts of varying–and often challenging–complexity to promote fluency for students experiencing below grade level achievement. We de...
www.tandfonline.com
December 14, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Its 7.30am and I am weeping over Tim Minchin’s ‘White Wine in the Sun’ so it must be Christmas Eve. Never been more grateful to be Australian (& I’ve always been grateful) than in 2024. youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q
White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin
YouTube video by Tim Minchin
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December 23, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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I visited a school recently which had SLANT posters up. I asked about it. The teacher was casual. ‘It’s just behaviours to help learning’. Behaviours to help students say engaged, says one school website. Another school says that using SLANT helps students to ensure they are focused on learning.1/
December 5, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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What is your favourite day of the year? Maybe it is a day that you spend with family and friends? wordtorque.com/our-favorite... #engagewthepage
December 1, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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When you fight a war against women, you also fight it against children. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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over three years we worked closely with a group of English language high school teachers who were committed to anti-deficit practices for combatting language stigma and discrimination. this article documents their efforts and describes what became possible: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 15, 2024 at 10:58 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
What counts as ‘evidence’ in literacy education?
November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
The Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) has wonderful journals. The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (AJLL) is now published by Springer Education. www.alea.edu.au/journals/
Journals
www.alea.edu.au
November 25, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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My Balancing Act co-writer Dominic Wyse has joined us here on Blue Sky; give him a follow here @domwyse.bsky.social. He’s a fount of knowledge and a thoroughly decent chap too!
November 22, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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“Clay's literacy processing theory is complex & multifaceted, & she cautioned that "if literacy teaching only brings a simple theory to a set of complex activities, then the learner has to bridge the gaps created by the simplification" (2015, p. 105)...https://tinyurl.com/shene89r
November 24, 2024 at 10:21 PM