I’m excited to be giving a webinar for Tooled Up Education on the power of reading for children’s outcomes!
I’ll be speaking to parents about why reading is so impactful and, importantly, how we can help children get the most out of their reading experience.
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CYP-LEX goes online!
Now available as an interactive online tool
The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX) I developed is now available as an interactive website: https://cyp-lex.rastlelab.com/. This online platform allows you to explore the database by querying specific words or extracting words with particular characteristics. Simply enter the words you’d like to look up – or upload an...
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Upcoming talks
EPS, Research & Practice at RHUL, SSSR, researchED
The conference season has started! Here’s what I’ll be doing this summer:
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New paper!
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience
Read our new paper on behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration of novel words into semantic memory - published in LCN open access!
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The Children and Young People's Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX)
What words do children encounter when they read for pleasure?
Our paper introducing CYP-LEX, a large-scale lexical database of books popular with children and young people in the UK, is finally out! It’s open access and free to download. Kathy and I also wrote a short and accessible blog post summarsing the main insights from this work. We are now...
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