#reading instruction

[iliiuan]

Texas legislature has banned 3-cueing as of 2023. I have never been happier about something this state did.

[lavender-linens]

All of this!

As an education major, I'd say that this sample shows that the child writing it was in the semi-phonetic/phonetic stage of spelling development, which is totally a thing! Because yes, the kid is accurately breaking the word into sounds and going through their inventory of sounds to accurately represent what they are hearing. And this is fabulous, because it means that during preschool, this child had a firm grasp on letter-sound correspondences and breaking a word apart into sounds. Do you know how hard that is? Dyslexics struggle with this skill into adulthood.

But yes, eventually we end up teaching the rules of orthography to children and we all write in the boring and normal manner. According to my literacy classes, the English language orthography is really difficult for children to learn to read and write in (Spanish and Finnish are some of the easiest languages, Danish and French are harder, but English is the worst). This is because English has what is known as a "deep orthography" while Spanish and Finnish have "shallow orthographies".

And the result of this is is that we start teaching kids to read in English-speaking countries as early as possible, because reading is a daunting task in English. And the children still struggle to catch up (though by 4th grade, my professor claims that the disadvantage has been minimized). Kids in English-Welsh bilingual neighborhoods have the opportunity to go to English or Welsh schools. And guess which one the kids learn to read faster in? Welsh, the silly little language that it is. Because the orthography is not stupidly deep like English's.

I could keep going, so I will stop while I am ahead.

Awesome Childhood Spelling

Uhh…where it says “looked” read “lopped”. lol This is based on the original tweet you see up there by Twitter user @Sal_Perez4 (see the original tweet here).

[acepumpkinpatrick]

Y'all!!! Emergency!!!

Your Esims are also helping Palestinians in Jenin!!

Instructions & Discount codes

Truly Esim

Thank you @anneemay for the notice

[lazylittledragon]

oke it's 5pm and i've been day drinking but come closer. listen to me

i get asked for character writing advice quite a lot and i really don't feel qualified to give any but i have 1 (one) hack for relationship dynamics that hasn't failed me yet and it's the Ikea Test

if you're figuring out how to characterise a relationship (platonic or romantic) and you're struggling: just imagine them having to put together an ikea flatpack and write how it would go

[ffcrazy15]

There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.

One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Sheed's A Map of Life

Portions of Pieper's book on leisure

Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life

Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)

Therese's Story of a Soul

and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.

(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)

Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!

[andsewingishalfthebattle]

Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.

Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU

[pandadrake]

Shots fired by the Spider-man sequels.

Was ruminating on how Miles and Miguel are technically both 'Spider-man 2' in their respective universes. Got me thinking about the other Spider-successors in the cast, and also what if they all got matching T-shirts or something.

[sugar-petals]

besides his obvious intelligence and badassery yoongi has what i call soft beauty and it’s not just the immaculately cat-like face (which i love) it’s also his presence and demeanour being just unobtrusively introverted. almost inexplicably he is so comforting to look at/listen to like even his most aggressive raps don’t make you feel uneasy because not only does this guy have the most attractive pillow-like baritone and the most relaxed body language ever but - despite him being a lil tease - he also gives you the feeling of being on your side. on any given day he would drive away all of your haters using nothing but a pair of chopsticks and then he’ll just blink and shrug because that goes without saying and then he’ll languidly clean up your whole living space and cook thai food

[breelynnsblog]

“After Removing Your Clothes, You Do…?”

[thefastestclockintheuniverse]

Caliborn being normal about Lil Cal.

[jacquesthepigeon]

Help I was testing out the new desk fan I bought that has LED lights that give car headlights a run for their money but now they won’t turn off 🥲

[krysmcscience]

The Lamb is malicious in a funny way and the Goat is funny in a malicious way. No, I will not elaborate.

Anyway, everyone give thanks to the Lamb for interrupting what was sure to be a very boring and patronizing PSA from their grouchy cat hubby. Truly, they are doing God's work. Granted, the Lamb canonically is God now, so, uh. Mostly they're just doing their own work.

Speaking of their grouchy cat hubby, yes this is absolutely still Narilamb, Narinder is 100% into his goofy-ass spouse always no matter what and we all know it, he just wasn't expecting his brand new adopted kid to share the same single goofy-ass brain cell as the Lamb. :)

[ylize]

Wanted to put my own spin on the spamtenna yaoi baby. Her name is Ellie (legal name is "App Elle Tenna") and she is full of microtransactions and ads. She has been kept a secret from Spamton by Tenna and her favourite toys are Pipis.

Bonus:

[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

[crabsnpersimmons]

sorry i've been away! work picked up all of a sudden

i'll be back once i completely overhaul someone else's paperwork (:

then take a nap

and treat myself to something yummy