Notices by Katherine Senzee (ksenzee@hachyderm.io)

Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day

@KidOrnery @eaton A few kids pick up reading naturally, just by being read to. Other kids don't need full-on phonics drilling: they get taught the basic idea that, say, F makes a ffff sound, and they figure out how to apply it. It's the kids who struggle with reading who really need the phonics drills, so it's painfully ironic that those are precisely the kids who get put into Reading Recovery–type programs.

@thomasfuchs @uliwitness yeah we all suck at that

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@thomasfuchs Bubble says good job adulting, she would not succeed at it

@thomasfuchs yep. It used to be you could counter with "most people don't get very sick from polio either, should we just let that rip" but they've quit caring even about polio.

@thomasfuchs glad you found a new place!

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@nova I found myself typing "r-e-a-d" a few weeks ago. Apparently I still have muscle memory from Google Reader after all these years. ?