@Spell2Read

Helping kids build knowledge and understanding for spelling and reading. #Orthography #Phonology #Morphology #Etymology #StructuredWordInquiry #Dyslexia

 Escondido, CA
Joined November 2016
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To say you can predict the future is to say there will be no new ideas.
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Doug Lemov
@Doug_Lemov1 Feb 2023
Written text is almost always ambiguous & readers have to resolve that ambiguity quickly in a process called "disambiguation.' What they rely on most of all to do that is background knowledge. Which is why it's so central to reading comprehension. teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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Roxanne W@RoxWalker1410 Nov 2022
G2 Learning share and the students leading the way with teaching parents how to feel the phonemes, tap-spell & box the base. #wordinquiry #uwclearn #uwcsea #uwcsea_east #uwcliteracy @wordtorque
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Replying to @buckingham_j @Spell2Read
This is just a regurgitation of the age-old, unsupported CW that morphology comes later. It's been debunked. Word sums and matrices allow us to discern and pinpoint the GPCs in a word. Phonics can't do that, and ends up just calling the words it can't explain "exceptions." 1/
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Replying to @buckingham_j @Spell2Read
There's no evidence that children have to learn "GPCs" outside of a morphological context. None. Zero. Just false.
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Doug Lemov
@Doug_Lemov27 Jul 2022
Great post by @AndrewWatsonTTB on learning objectives & pre-lesson retrieval practice. I like him was skeptical of the former. learningandthebrain.com/blog…
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Replying to @SoundSyllable
Why are some words spelled with <wr> or <kn> instead of <r> or <n>? Why are <here> and <hear> spelled differently? Why does the <s> in <sure> spell [ʃ]? That's etymology, not just phonology. Graphemes have etymologies too, as do all words, not just Greek & Latin words.
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English orthography is challenging. Would you prefer a teacher who says, "English is irregular. There are 250 ways to spell 44 sounds and many exceptions." Or "English makes sense. It has about 90 graphemes; choice is driven by meaning, history, and structure." ? Yeah, me too.
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1/ Feeling Fry-ed? Proponents of the Fry List claim that children who memorize all 1,000 words will master 90% of all the words they’ll need to read. But you know what will help children master 100% of words? Understanding the system.
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Stephanie Ruston@Spell2Read24 Jun 2022
Replying to @Spell2Read @NateJoseph19 @maxcoltheart @HartofLearning @reading_league @borneo_pete @jeffrey_bowers
“Every time we study a word in its family, we learn more about the system.” - Gina Cooke shamelessspelling.com/time-t…
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A Bit Of Zen@abitofzen4 Jun 2022
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say" - Italo Calvino
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Tsh Oxenreider
@tsh27 May 2022
One of the more poignant passages in classic literature.
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Knowledge Theorie@TOKphysics19 May 2022
The Enlightenment was a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations instead of reliance on authority. @DavidDeutschOxf
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Claude Monet
@artistmonet3 May 2022
The Cabin at Saint-Adresse, 1867 #monet #claudemonet
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Brett Hall
@ToKTeacher27 Jan 2022
The idea that "not everyone is creative" or "not everyone can be creative" etc is a deep misconception that comes straight from the bucket theory of mind. In reality, the only way anyone learns anything is through creativity. Every person is necessarily creative.
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Stephanie Ruston@Spell2Read10 Apr 2022
Replying to @ReadWellAlaska @DrMPaff @jeffrey_bowers @SaraJPeden @TheAaveMaria @DavidAyer @borneo_pete @debbiehepp @DyslexiaDeb1 @larkbarker @AliciaFromTiny @literacypodcast @PhonicsMom @buckingham_j @drheidibc @KJWinEducation @SWLiteracy @salimrpedro @lifelonglit @PamelaSnow2 @Isaology
What we know about how reading happens in the brain should not be taken to mean that we should teach phonology apart from - or ahead of - morphology. xitter.cf/StanDehaene/status/113…
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social@StanDehaene24 May 2019
For reading acquisition, I always emphasize the systematic teaching of morphology in addition to phonology. French readers must understand the differences between "il aime", "ils aiment", "vraiment", "vrai" vs "vraie", etc. Spelling is often logical! cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.…
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This is a beautifully rich, cross-linguistic explanation of homophones, homographs, and heterographic words in English and in Indic languages. Do not miss it. I love that the Hindi word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow.'
Aishwarya@teachingtenets8 Apr 2022
there or their? hole or whole? lose or loose? Homophones can be confusing & lead to errors, frustration, & most of all to the conclusion that Eng spelling is crazy. It's not! Here's my Q&A Guide in which I explore Homophony & Heterogrophy in Eng & Kannada teachingtenets.wordpress.com…
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Jeffrey Bowers@jeffrey_bowers25 Mar 2022
Replying to @TheAaveMaria @Spell2Read @DrMPaff @DavidAyer @borneo_pete @SaraJPeden @debbiehepp @DyslexiaDeb1 @larkbarker @AliciaFromTiny @literacypodcast @PhonicsMom @buckingham_j @ReadWellAlaska @drheidibc @KJWinEducation @SWLiteracy @salimrpedro @lifelonglit @PamelaSnow2 @Isaology
Is it really too much to ask that people don't misrepresent us and that senior researchers do not retweet these misrepresentations? From: Bowers and Bowers (2017). Beyond Phonics The Case for Teaching Children the Logic of the English Spelling System. Educational Psychologist
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Kevin W.
@Brink_Thinker20 Mar 2022
Twitter needs more of this.. xitter.cf/buitengebieden_/status…
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“There is no such thing as a fixed reading level…We draw on background knowledge for everything we read.” Natalie Wexler #CVLiteracy
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