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A (Non-Virtual!) Picnic

Following the lifting of Covid restrictions, members of the LARA Lab and Baby Lab had the chance to (finally!) catch up with each other in real life rather than through a dreaded zoom or teams meeting. Earlier this month, the

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Congratulations Grace

Last week, lab member Grace won a prize for her poster and presentation on educational apps! The poster was presented at the Doctoral School, to a wide audience of staff and students at Royal Holloway from lots of different departments.

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Orthographic facilitation systematic review published

One of the main focuses of Dr Jessie Ricketts and the LARA lab is orthographic facilitation, which is the idea that seeing the spelling of the word (orthography) helps to facilitate learning of the orthography, phonology and semantics of that

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LARA paper published!

Jessie and colleagues recently published a paper that investigated whether newly learnt words were retained over time. The paper also discusses graded measures of vocabulary, which provide insight into the incremental nature of learning! Check out the poster for a quick summary. The paper

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Reflections on the last year from the LARA lab

The last year has been a very strange and challenging time for all. The pandemic has impacted and will continue to impact everyone in a myriad of ways. The current changes in restrictions have given Dr Jessie Ricketts and the LARA

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Landmark LARA paper published: reading in adolescence

One of the key focuses of the LARA lab is looking at reading and language development in adolescence. What changes (or not). How much teenagers read (or not). Whether they are motivated (or not). Earlier this year, Jessie and colleagues

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Vocabulary across transition from primary to secondary school

Today, Oxford University Press and the Centre for Education and Youth published an important new report on vocabulary across transition from primary to secondary school. To mark the report’s publication, Jessie was involved in a webinar launch. The report summarises

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Happy Christmas 2019 and all the best for 2020!

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Congratulations!

It has been a really exciting year this year with Grace Pocock and Jess Dyson starting their PhDs and Nicola Dawson becoming Dr Nicola Dawson and heading off to Oxford for a postdoc with Kate Nation. UGRAs Daisy Miller, Lucy

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Happy World Book Day! Some thoughts on morphology from Nicky Dawson

In celebration of World Book Day, Nicky Dawson has put together some thoughts on morphology…  Read the following sentence and try to fill in the gap: ‘This is a wug. Now there is another one. There are two of them.

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To read or not to read: Finding out about home literacy practices

As we celebrate world book day, we thought we would tell you about the LARA lab contributions to Royal Holloway Science Festival 2019 The LARA lab will have a stall at the Science Festival, where members of the lab will be

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Collaboration between research and teaching is essential for promoting reading comprehension

Dr. Jessie Ricketts and Megan Dixon (teacher, PhD student and director of literacy at the Aspirer Educational Trust) co-wrote an article for the Times Educational Supplement, which was published in November 2018. The article was called Going to Bat for

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Time for a festive break

To find out more about what we’ve been up to this year, check out our LARA newsletter December 2018

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Closing the vocabulary gap: Alex Quigley

Recently, Jessie reviewed Alex Quigley’s new book for the Times Educational Supplement. The book synthesises research on vocabulary and reading and integrates it with practical knowledge of schools and teaching. It highlights barriers to supporting these foundational processes in schools

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Introducing the Nuffield-funded Reading and Vocabulary (RAV) project

Recently, we launched our new Nuffield-funded Reading and Vocabulary (RAV) project in London with teachers and other representatives from key stakeholder groups. Thanks to all for attending! The RAV project is led by Dr Laura Shapiro (Aston University), Professor Adrian

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Dr Jessie Ricketts talks to Tes Podagogy: Vocabulary and reading at school

Dr Jessie Ricketts, the Director of the LARA lab, recently spoke to Jon Severs at the Times Educational Supplement about her work. You can listen to the podcast here In their conversation, Jessie and Jon talked widely about supporting vocabulary and

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Pirate Plots in R

On Tuesday the 20th February we had an interesting lab meeting on how to create pirate plots in R, led by our wonderful PhD student Nicky. Pirate plots are a type of plot that show raw data, descriptive statistics, and

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2018 has been exciting so far…

It has been a very exciting start to the year for the LARA lab, with a range of interesting visitors. In January we had a visit from former lab member Rosie McGuire. Rosie has obtained a competitive ESRC 1+3 studentship to

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Last lab meeting of the term

Yesterday was the final LARA lab meeting of this term. We were lucky to have a guest speaker in. Dr Danielle Colenbrander, who is a postdoc at the University of Bristol, gave a talk titled ‘A randomised controlled trial of morphological

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New Blog Post!

Follow this link to Jessie’s new blog post about spelling and reading on the GL Assessment website: https://www.gl-assessment.co.uk/news-items/2017/the-relationship-between-word-reading-and-word-spelling-in-english/

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  • A (Non-Virtual!) Picnic
  • Congratulations Grace
  • Orthographic facilitation systematic review published
  • LARA paper published!
  • Reflections on the last year from the LARA lab

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Kathy_RastleKathy Rastle@Kathy_Rastle·
15 Aug

New 18 month post, Leverhulme Trust grant @RHULPsychology looking at psychological influences on spelling and spelling change, combining (historical) corpus analyses with laboratory experiments, closing Sept 16. https://t.co/ELXYdmmfuw

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GaabLabDr. Nadine Gaab@GaabLab·
12 Aug

The Push for Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in Schools | Time https://t.co/dvXnM6F3VB

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  • Vocabulary and Reading in Secondary School
  • Developmental Studies Centre, Royal Holloway
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