Jen’s Substack
Jen O’SullivanWhere evidence-based meets chalk-dusted reality in literacy education.
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What Ireland Gets Right About Reading
In literacy, we spend a lot of time talking about problems.
We debate reading difficulties. We argue about instructional approaches. We scrutinise policies, programmes and interventions. We worry about achievement gaps and declining standa...
The most powerful vocabulary teaching tool in your classroom is probably already on your shelf
I was recently talking to a teacher about vocabulary instruction when she asked me: ‘How do I actually know which words are worth teaching explicitly?’
It sounds deceptively simple but once you begin planning read-alouds, selecting texts,...
When ‘Evidence-Based’ Starts Meaning Everything… and Nothing
Spend enough time in literacy education and you begin to notice that almost everybody claims research is on their side. Publishers do it. Literacy programmes do it. Professional development providers do it. Schools do it. Increasingly, the...
A Response, A Rebuttal, and an Ongoing Conversation About Reading Recovery
For the past number of years, I have been writing and speaking about early reading intervention in Ireland, often returning to the same underlying question: are we providing the right kind of support for the children who struggle most to le...
The Friday Fiasco: Why the Weekly Spelling Test is a Pedagogical Dead End
Every Thursday evening, in homes up and down the country, a familiar routine plays out. A child sits at the kitchen table staring at a list of ten words, attempting to memorise them just long enough to survive the Friday morning spelling te...
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Lecturer in literacy education based in Ireland \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea. When I’m not buried in literacy research, I love travelling and visiting the odd lighthouse.
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