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Ralph Mason
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Literacy and numeracy teacher | copy editor | cynophile. Formerly: classroom teacher | web designer.
The word sums in that video would not be endorsed by SWI practitioners.
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I just liked Trumpery because it's already a word — as you know! (Its definition is almost too good to be true.)
August 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It's off(ici)al: February is to be renamed Trumpery.
August 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It's also more understandable when compared with all the forms of "go": going, goes, gone etc. It's not the spelling that's unusual, but the *pronunciation*. We often blame spelling unfairly.
March 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Why did you tell us who is under there? Why not let us discover the answer for ourselves? 😜
January 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Looks like fun. But oof: "… can't use it's magic power …". Where was the proof reader?!
January 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Getting sidetracked and lured by the Sirens of social media surely is your own authentic Odyssey?
January 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm anticipating that Trump will announce it as the biggest event ever in history of the world. What more evidence do I need? If he says it, surely it's true?!
January 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Whether you watch it or not, just remember that it will officially have the biggest live and TV audience of any event it the history of the world.
January 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Tom Hanks did Mister Rogers much better than whoever this guy is.
January 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
But 2025 is an ordinal number, so ...
January 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I’d nominate Siegfried Engelmann. He pioneered Direct Instruction, which was proven in the massive Follow Through project to be vastly superior to other forms of pedagogy. (And then of course his work was largely ignored, because that wasn't the result people wanted. 😏)
December 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
That's why we need to go back to teaching Latin!
December 18, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Nice thread. My preference with such weird words is to sound them they way they look and then acknowledge the way they are actually pronounced. It's a useful mapping process. Many people will tell you they have learned to say "Wed-ness-day" internally when needing to spell that word.
December 18, 2024 at 8:46 PM
I think of reading comprehension as language comprehension with an extra step in between (decoding). If language comprehension is taught separately from reading, it seems plausible that this will help reading comprehension when/if written word recognition skills improve.
December 18, 2024 at 7:37 AM