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

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.

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

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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

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

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

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

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

By Sarah Ledger, Lisa Parkinson and Anne Wassell from Lexonik

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

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