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Ralph Mason

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Literacy and numeracy teacher | copy editor | cynophile. Formerly: classroom teacher | web designer.

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The word sums in that video would not be endorsed by SWI practitioners.

07.12.2025 09:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just liked Trumpery because it's already a word β€” as you know! (Its definition is almost too good to be true.)

14.08.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's off(ici)al: February is to be renamed Trumpery.

13.08.2025 03:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

20.03.2025 00:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@lintonbesser.bsky.social

Great first episode of Media Watch, Linton! We particularly liked the mug at the end. All the best for the journey ahead. πŸ™‚

04.02.2025 11:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why did you tell us who is under there? Why not let us discover the answer for ourselves? 😜

25.01.2025 01:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like fun. But oof: "… can't use it's magic power …". Where was the proof reader?!

23.01.2025 02:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting sidetracked and lured by the Sirens of social media surely is your own authentic Odyssey?

17.01.2025 22:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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?!

17.01.2025 22:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

15.01.2025 12:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Tom Hanks did Mister Rogers much better than whoever this guy is.

04.01.2025 01:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But 2025 is an ordinal number, so ...

02.01.2025 06:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
A Course on How to Explain Better I was recently invited to develop content for a course on explanations for InnerDrive’s CPD Academy. There are some previews that are available to you now to give you a taste. The course cont…

3 videos on how to explain better.

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19.12.2024 21:52 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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. 😏)

19.12.2024 23:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's why we need to go back to teaching Latin!

18.12.2024 20:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

18.12.2024 20:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

18.12.2024 07:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0