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@WritingRocks_17 · United Kingdom · joined 26 Feb 2017
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@WritingRocks_17 Absolutely brilliant. I’m not a linguist but this was both warm and refreshing. Thank you so much
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13/ Every child in your class has been building a grammar since before they could walk. Our job is to help them notice it, name it, and use it with more intention in their writing.
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12/ Starting from deficit ("they don't even know what a noun is") gets children and grammar off on the wrong foot.
Starting from expertise sets things up better: "you use nouns all the time; let's look at how you choose them."
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11/ This isn't anti-terminology. Shared terms help us talk together. But the terms should name something children already do, not stand in for something they supposedly lack.
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10/ What does help? Myhill and colleagues found grammar taught in context, as choices writers make in their own texts, made a real difference. The use mattered most, not the terminology on its own.
https://t.co/yKw55kTuCf
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9/ Mixing these up matters. Chn get treated as if they are idiots when they are anything but...
Labelling words gets mistaken for grammatical knowledge.
Andrews’ review finds little writing benefit from grammar taught as structural linguistics
https://t.co/FaxtuCfC0V
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8/ So what does "doesn't know what a noun is" really mean? That a child can't name or spot one on a worksheet. That's a gap in their ‘structural linguistics’ knowledge, not in grammatical knowledge (using it).
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6/ Berko's "wug test" (1958): show a child a made-up creature called a wug, then two of them. "Two wugs!" They treat an unknown word as a noun and inflect it correctly the first time they hear it.
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7/ By school age, children have a huge working grammar. They make plurals and past tenses, form questions and negatives, and use subordinate clauses. None of it depends on knowing the terms.
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5/ Then comes the over applying: goed, runned, mouses, sheeps.
Nobody taught them those. Children are over-applying rules they worked out for themselves.
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4/ By around two, children use sentence structure to work out new words. In Naigles's experiments, toddlers heard a made-up verb in different contexts and looked at different scenes depending on the grammar. That takes a working sense of how verbs behave.
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3/ To be fair, researchers debate whether a toddler's single words are "nouns" and "verbs" in the adult sense. "Ball" might mean "give me the ball” or “Look Daddy, a ball!”.
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2/ My daughter Isla-Scout is 15 months old. Her first words include: dog, hat, banana, Grandad, Tigger, go, this, no, again, hi, bye, oh dear. Things, people, an action, pointing, negation, recurrence, social routines. She's already sorting the world into words.
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1/ "Some children don't even know what a noun or a verb is!"
You'll hear this. It’s usually followed by a call for “going back to basics” and more grammar drills. However, it’s all a big muddle. 🧵…
See Dyson: https://t.co/gXlZxN5KT3
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Everything Children Learn From Watching You Write: A Framework For Nursery And Reception Teachers
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From How To Make An Earthquake by Ruth Krauss https://t.co/Qf5UvEHBNQ
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Why Johnny won’t write:
😔 Lack of confidence
😔 Lack of independence and autonomy
😔 Lack of purpose and authentic audiences
😔 Unhealthy forms of motivation
😔 Lack of personal writing time
😔 Lack of satisfaction
😔 Feeling alienated or alone
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Free writing CPD materials - covering all aspects of writing teaching
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Against accounts of the same size
17 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views718this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.74%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.66%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 718 | 924 | 0.78× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.74% | 3.62% | 1.31× |
| Engagement rate | 1.66% | 1.52% | 1.09× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes63.5%190 in total
Reposts14.0%42 in total
Replies8.4%25 in total
Quotes2.3%7 in total
Bookmarks11.7%35 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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