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McKenzieTutor Ltd T/A Sound Foundations Reading, Spelling, Maths & Science.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@JuneSim63 @Natures_Voice @Nottswildlife @ruth_watch @WildlifeTrusts Rude and lazy.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@anneglennie No problem. If you take Apples & Pears spelling and Dancing Bears reading together, they are a complete and well-established programme, although most use it for catch-up and intervention, rather than as their mainstream teaching resource. https://t.co/5ZS0nt0b0Y

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

Lovely feedback from a London parent:
"We've been using Apples & Pears for my home-educated 6-year-old daughters and they have made amazing progress with writing and spelling. Here are pictures of the improvement over 6 months (not including holidays!)"
Thank you
Żaklina, Enfield

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

It all works - do it.

You'll be early to work and very late home. You'll hardly sleep, missing your own family to prepare all those clips and print the resources. Your reward will be the relief of surviving another awful day. You'll become ill but won't let on. You'll succeed.

[Mr G @DeputyGrocott]

Tip of the hour: if you have a tricky class, make sure simple organisational things are in place in class. For example, get websites ready as tabs,get video clips at the point of pressing play. Have books on tables rather than handing them out.Simple things but make a difference.

[Ed Martinson @readingEd24]

Students need a teacher who gives direct instruction, not a video or computer lesson. The video cannot give immediate feedback or adapt a lesson to a students needs.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

And water weighs a tonne per cubic meter, so costs a fortune to transport. Then plastic bottles, plasticisers...

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

Drinking loads of water is the health version of learning styles isn't it? In that there's basically no evidence if does any good really but everyone believes it and then gets a bit grumpy if challenged?

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@Beerlightweight @BorisJohnson And they caused it.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

I tell everyone how inexpensive, “open and go” & incredibly effective the books are. I haven’t found anything I like better. I don’t have time or energy for extensive rules or manipulatives, and my children don’t have the attention span for them.
All that is to say I’m a big fan!

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

A lovely commendation today from a parent in WV, USA:

We used your spelling program with my eldest and it was a game changer. I jumped at the chance to try out the reading program when my next one was old enough. We loved it, so we’re going to start with his younger brother.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@MissDHill1 The treatment of supply teachers (often just blanked by staff) and a lack support for them in tackling atrocious behaviour just lays bare the pretence of the school leaders who preach about core values and respect, then turn a blind eye.
Yet supply teachers now keep schools open.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@JoAnneGross1 In the 90s we mostly taught children diagnosed with dyslexia, or the children of parents fighting for that diagnosis. Over time, we taught more and more children who, for whatever reason, simply hadn't been taught to read properly. The same approach worked for them all.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

Hope everyone has had a lovely Father's Day!

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@RobinRB17 @ScottPughsley I think I'd have employed you right there.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@ScottPughsley I'd like to say I gave a deep and meaningful answer, or at least said something clever, but I can't really remember. It kind of threw me that I'd put in a huge effort, and travelled 200 miles twice, yet it might all come down to playing hedgehog or hippo with some haughty kids.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@ScottPughsley Not really a task, but I was once put before a very serious student council and asked by their chairperson, "If you could be any animal, what animal would you be, and why?"

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@bjohnsonauthor Y eahme too, but 45 unfinished projects later...

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@Strickomaster Awarding full marks to all who attempted it penalises those who would have scored highest. Some on the borderline will lose a grade because of this, others will gain. Awarding a full 9 marks will seriously skew the scores of those who did very badly on other questions.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@Beerlightweight @CatLHolt The tooth fairy couldn't find my son's tooth, but kindly left £2 anyway, which my son found in the morning, next to his tooth.

[Mckenzie @MckenzieSoundF1]

@StarlightMcKenz @bennewmark @SimonKnight100 @AspieDeLaZouch @TheReadingApe @NDempseyDTA @MaggieHoerger Well put.