Ficola Nurphy

🇺🇦❤️ I’d rather be in Berlin 🇩🇪

[Sean Morrisey @smorrisey]

Here is what I have found that works with improving 5th graders spelling. Taking the "best bets" in research and putting it into practice.
- Teach students how to break words into syllables
- Teach students spelling patterns for certain sounds like /s/ can be spelled with an s, ss, se, ce, sc etc.
- Spelling dictation (retrieval practice)
- Using word sums and morphology matrices because the focus is on meaningful parts of words
- Providing enough practice spelling the words in different contexts
- Spelling is woven into vocabulary instruction. It isn't a standalone curriculum. Students don't EVER complain about working on spelling because it is embedded within learning the meanings of difficult words. Motivation matters!

These are spelling results from my classroom this year.
On the left is from a standardized spelling assessment (Test of Written Spelling - 5th Edition). These words were not explicitly taught. These are percentile scores, so the 68th percentile means that the student did better than 68 out of 100 students of the same age. The average percentile for the class went from the 52nd to the 75th percentile.

On the right are scores from fall to spring on words taught in the Word Mapping Project curriculum. Sample words include procrastination, correspond, emphasis, foreign, and rambunctious. The scores are percentage of words correctly spelled. The average percentage of words correctly spelled went from 28% to 74%.

I'm so proud of my students. I often hear that students are lazy with regard to spelling. I beg to differ. Students need to be taught well.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

Most people make reasonable, logical choices for 40 years and still end up with a life they don't love.

At some point, making an unreasonable choice is the only reasonable thing to do.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Whoever said ‘out of sight, out of mind’ never had a spider disappear inside their tent.

[Ficola Nurphy @Poppets16]

@FixingEducation 16 or 18 no younger. They are too easily influenced when younger. They need time to develop their minds first

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[Teach Johnny Pav @jppav_teacher]

AI is completely ruining the joy of teaching English in a secondary school (or whatever joy there was to be had). It's a serious issue and administrators can't just sit on this one. #edutwitter #aussieED

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Can someone explain to me like I’m 10 years old what the point of buying a house is if, even after you pay off the mortgage, you still have to pay property taxes?

[Ficola Nurphy @Poppets16]

@VARVeteranref @dr41fan And you are an a**hole

[Ficola Nurphy @Poppets16]

@AMAZlNGNATURE I could have lived happily without ever knowing this…

[Ficola Nurphy @Poppets16]

@1JLVSTW Samsies lol

[Sci Nature News @SciNatureNews]

🚨: The world health organisation warns that the Ebola virus outbreak spreading uncontrollably and wildly

[cow @cowincrisis]

i like when the people driving past the field wave at me :)

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Funny how a 4 day work week gets treated like some impossible fantasy, yet long holiday weekends never seem to break the economy. It’s almost like every weekend should just…be a long weekend?

[Ficola Nurphy @Poppets16]

@Mollyploofkins Wait. Why did he need help?

[Ficola Nurphy @Poppets16]

@ThatEricAlper @scissorsisters 🥰❤️

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“Delta Dental calls itself a nonprofit — while its CEO took $48 MILLION in four years.”

Her pay ballooned from $4.5 million to $15 million a year.

Provider reimbursements were cut. Patients paid MORE.

‘Nonprofit’ for the tax break. For-profit at the top.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

A huge heat dome is sitting over France, with temperatures that might hit 40°C. It’s still spring. It’s still May. What was once considered “extreme” is increasingly becoming normal across Europe. Heatwaves are earlier, longer, & pushing ecosystems and health beyond limits.

[Ficola Nurphy @Poppets16]

@leachfortexas @EricIdle 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤬

[Grant Stoll @grantonsoil]

How is it even possible that they’re about to spray glyphosate across Lake Tahoe’s national forests and it’s not front page news