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@HannahPosted I’d say there are better things a kid of that age could be doing to gain the fine motor control needed for HW vs getting into bad habits that whoever is teaching him spelling later will have to undo

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@HannahPosted But for it to have actual value, an adult does need to be there making sure he’s saying the sound as he writes, not adding the schwa/uhhh sound to his /t/ ie forming good habits for reading and spelling down the line

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@HannahPosted There is no difference but the L needs adult input and the R can be done independently. Yes they can be fun (my 6yo daughter loves reading instruction time) but the point is that this kind of stuff can take away from time spent in freely chosen play

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@HannahPosted Adult-directed ‘play based activities’ are an entirely different animal from a child’s independent free play. Too much time is spent in ed settings for young kids on the former at the expense of the latter.

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@theranger1872 @MrsRoyKeaneo Agreed there is literally nothing here you can’t get in the UK. Also some of those baked goods look seriously underdone.

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@winterduck04 Harper Collins also reduces these all the time on their TikTok shop

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@realgirl_fieri In England and it’s the same, pouring rain and grey skies. Rebranding to summer-ween is the way forward. Light the candles, cosy blankets, baking, gothic books/movies.

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@HannahPosted Wedding invitations in England still use this term a lot. It’s just a polite way of saying you will be required to go home at midnight/1am as the venue requires it

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@redtvtrack9 Taylor I am begging

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@AMAZlNGNATURE She looks like she’s gonna scream don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby

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@tinycharlotte72 Sally Rooney I am begging

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@TheScribblerCMB She looks like she was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get her

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@BekahSunday @JaneAustenLIVES No! It’s Caroline Bingley trying to impress Mr Darcy ie. none of this quote is said with any sincerity. Yet people always use it like Jane Austen is saying something profound about reading.

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@thisisvertrying In a relationship w/ tolerate it muse and he sends you a song w lyrics about how all they want to do is hold you…well. Taylor is an incurable romantic/self-professed Marianne Dashwood, someone saying they pine for her would def have an effect shall we say.

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@PorterValli @sewistwrites For sure, I’m in the UK and home educate my 6yo with explicit reading instruction but in an absolute minority. The belief that children will just ‘read when they’re ready’ is so pervasive across so many different types of home educator not just unschoolers.

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@lilslibray @poppyfence @RollingArt23 @yrinsanelove No it’s not. It’s an s spelling but it’s pronounced /z/ bc /n/ is an voiced consonant (feel a rumble in throat when saying /n/). Same with pigs bc /g/ is a voiced consonsant. But eg in cats /t/ is unvoiced so the s makes the /s/ sound here

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@rurisketchychan @RollingArt23 @yrinsanelove No because s and se are spellings for /z/. English does not have 1:1 phoneme:grapheme correspondence. Sounds have multiple spellings and vice versa.

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@RollingArt23 @yrinsanelove That doesn’t make any sense bc English does not have a 1:1 phoneme:grapheme correspondence - s and z are both spellings for the /z/ sound used throughout the language.

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@agathachristie @WmMorrowBooks @bookclubgirl For the love of god can we have these covers in the UK. The US Miss Marple ones too, PLEASE.