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Vocabulary Detectives

Vocabulary Detectives

By Lexonik Vocabulary Detectives

Vocabulary Detectives is a show investigating vocabulary and how words mean what they do. Each episode will scrutinise different vocabulary and their morphology, educating us all about the words we use in a fun and informal way.
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The Power of The Prefix

Vocabulary DetectivesJul 06, 2021

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Adventures over the Atlantic: Bringing Lexonik to the U.S.

Adventures over the Atlantic: Bringing Lexonik to the U.S.

This week the Vocabulary Detectives are solving the mystery of American education. Sarah Ledger is joined by a fresh off the plane Lisa Parkinson, to talk about Lisa’s experience in the sunshine state of Florida, providing Lexonik training to American educators. 

They discuss the differences with American English, the structure of the U.S. education system and how Lexonik’s universal principles of teaching can cross oceans to improve literacy!

Presented by Sarah Ledger CEO and Lisa Parkinson, Director at Lexonik.

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Jan 19, 202320:42
Special Episode: Intervention choices

Special Episode: Intervention choices

Before committing to any new school initiative, it’s important to demonstrate due diligence and research your prospective purchase. This is of course especially important for school leaders when we consider the current financial constraints on UK schools

Sarah and Lisa discuss how to evaluate the impact of interventions, factors to consider in delivering those interventions and how to use data on progress to ensure that your school is getting the most bang for your buck!

Presented by Sarah Ledger CEO and Lisa Parkinson, Director at Lexonik.


www.lexonik.co.uk

Nov 23, 202223:11
Special Episode - The National Literacy Trust Independent Evaluation of Lexonik Advance - the results are in!
Nov 10, 202231:05
Special Episode - Assessed, Identified. Now What?

Special Episode - Assessed, Identified. Now What?

The Vocabulary Detectives are back with a brand-new episode all about how educators can best use their assessment data. 

“Assessed, Identified, Now What?” investigates what to consider when assessing learners, what to look for in your assessments and how all of this leads to putting your student data to good use.

Presenters: Sarah Ledger and Lisa Parkinson from Lexonik

Oct 17, 202234:21
Special Episode - Reading Fluency

Special Episode - Reading Fluency

In this episode the Vocabulary Detectives explore reading fluency and give their thoughts on how and whether it can be taught.

They cover the building blocks of reading fluency and how essential skills such as automaticity and syllabification are needed to achieve fluency.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

www.lexonik.co.uk

Sep 22, 202230:22
Investigating the word stem ‘pend’
Jun 17, 202219:14
Contranyms

Contranyms

In this episode the Vocabulary Detectives explore contranyms and why there is always a bra in the library!


Presented by:  Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

www.lexonik.co.uk

May 09, 202224:04
Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

In this episode Lisa and Sarah explore how to teach and learn vocabulary, giving a focused classroom method any teacher could use in any classroom.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger and Lisa Parkinson from Lexonik

lexonik.co.uk

Mar 29, 202224:41
Pandemic vocabulary

Pandemic vocabulary

Covid and the pandemic has changed all of our lives forever, including our vocabulary. Join Sarah, Lisa and Anne in an exploration of the vocabulary of the pandemic.


Presented by: Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

Jan 28, 202220:58
Confusing Vocabulary

Confusing Vocabulary

Language isn’t easy! Join Lisa and Anne as they explore annoyingly tricky words and confusing affixes. See how they manage in this episode without Sarah.


Presented by: Lisa Parkinson & Anne Wassell from Lexonik

Nov 14, 202123:28
Weather Vocabulary

Weather Vocabulary

From JK Rowling to Shakespeare, us Brits love talking about the weather. The detectives explore the words of weather, adding some of their favourites along the way.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

Oct 11, 202128:15
Using morphology to get you unstuck

Using morphology to get you unstuck

The detectives Anne and Lisa take us back through morphemic analysis and explore how to get unstuck with tricky words. The stem spect and dict are investigated.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik.

Oct 01, 202129:50
Special Episode - Reading at Home

Special Episode - Reading at Home

Anne and Sarah chat about their experiences as mothers of reading at home and give top tips for making reading and vocabulary developments with our children as easy as possible.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

www.lexonik.co.uk

Sep 13, 202137:09
Special Episode - an interview with Philip Morley

Special Episode - an interview with Philip Morley

In this special episode our resident Vocabulary Detective Sarah chats with Philip Morley, classic master craftsman, contributing author at Fine Wood Workings Magazine and teacher at Austin School of Furniture, along with Katy Parkinson, Founder Director of Lexonik, about his experience of Dyslexia growing up and the impact on his personal and professional life in adulthood.

Presented by Sarah Ledger from Lexonik

Aug 27, 202136:29
Vocabulary in the workplace

Vocabulary in the workplace

The Vocabulary Detectives explore the importance of continuing vocabulary exploration into adult life and how it literally could be a matter of life or death.

By Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

Jul 30, 202124:58
The Language of Science

The Language of Science

Lisa explores with her fellow detectives the vocabulary of science and technology, with 90% having roots in Greek or Latin.


by Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

Jul 30, 202145:14
The Power of The Prefix

The Power of The Prefix

Anne begins this episode exploring the power of the prefix, focusing words with multiple prefixes and the analysis of antidisestablishmentarianism?

By Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

Jul 06, 202128:01
The vocabulary of maths

The vocabulary of maths

The vocabulary detectives discuss why explicit vocabulary instruction is essential in any subject area.

By Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

Jul 06, 202125:11
Investigating cognates and the word stem ‘man’

Investigating cognates and the word stem ‘man’

Lisa investigates the importance of cognates when developing vocabulary via the word stem ‘man’.  Anne unpicks the difference between words, syllables and affixes whilst Sarah remembers her GCSE French!

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik


May 14, 202121:15
Special Episode - Adult literacy and prison education with David Breakspear

Special Episode - Adult literacy and prison education with David Breakspear

David Breakspear, prison reform campaigner, speaks with Sarah and Phil about his reading and literacy journey, prison education and why we’re still in an adult literacy crisis.  He’s also put through his morphemic analysis paces.

Presented by: Sarah Ledger 

Guests:  David Breakspear and Phil Luke

May 11, 202136:47
Investigating the word stem ’duc’

Investigating the word stem ’duc’

Anne takes the detectives on an exploration of the word stem ‘duc’ in this episode, leading to a very competitive word web challenge.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

May 04, 202121:43
Investigating the prefix ‘com’

Investigating the prefix ‘com’

This week's guest detective, Anne Wassell explores the prefix com, with our resident detectives, plus gives handy tips on how to easily improve vocabulary at home. There’s a cheeky game of Mallet’s Mallet in there too.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

May 04, 202126:05
Investigating the word stem ‘press’

Investigating the word stem ‘press’

The word stem ‘press’ is investigated in this episode of Vocabulary Detectives as well as a quick fire review of ‘trac’ and ‘greg’ from the previous episodes.  Lisa and Sarah also explore how to make vocabulary instruction and learning habitual as well as a good game of odd one out to finish.

Presented by:  Sarah Ledger and Lisa Parkinson from Lexonik

Apr 28, 202123:57
Investigating the word stem ‘trac’ and how to use context clues when reading

Investigating the word stem ‘trac’ and how to use context clues when reading

In this episode the resident Vocabulary Detectives Sarah and Lisa investigate the word stem ‘trac’ as well as exploring how context clues can help with reading and vocabulary developments.

Presented by: Sarah Ledger and Lisa Parkinson from Lexonik

Apr 26, 202123:07
Investigating morphology and the word stem ‘greg’

Investigating morphology and the word stem ‘greg’

What is morphology?  Why is it important and how does knowing what the word stem ‘greg’ means open up a world of vocabulary? In this episode Sarah and Lisa investigate these questions and more, concluding in a tricky game of nonsense words.

Presented by: Sarah Ledger and Lisa Parkinson from Lexonik


Apr 25, 202118:31