Hi all! I am a curriculum write and ex PK-3 educator of 13 years. I truly believe the next step in the Science of Reading game is going to be teaching morphology to help with spelling skills. Has anyone been to any trainings, webinars, professional development about this that they enjoyed? It is a fascinating topic to me and makes me excited for our learners our there.
There's a phrase on tiktok that is "she wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche" People are asked randomly in the streets what this means and when they get stumped on the words, people go "omg reading literacy crisis" and circlejerk in the comments about how they understood it and how smart they are
I hate this because the words are intentionally verbose. Words of which people never speak (Hello, gauche??) of in regular speech. Besides what the hell does a "silhouette of clothes" even mean? Maybe I am "illiterate" but how does someone wear a silhouette of clothes? Silhouette is the outline of something. How does one wear the outline of clothes? Or is it saying that she wore regular clothes (like a t shirt and shorts) but the outline/silhouette was extraordinary/gauche? How does that make any sense? like her t shirt was regular but the edges/outline/silhouette of the t shirt were unconventional but tacky, like rainbow colored or something? 😂 Yet even that doesn't make any sense since it explicitly states she wore a silhouette of clothes, not that she wore clothes WITH a silhouette...
It feels like people don't understand the sentence because it fundamentally doesn't make any sense and the ridiculous verbosity of it exemplifies that issue. Or maybe given how I am trying to deduce the actual meaning of the passage that makes me more literate? Either way it feels pompous. It's like if I said gibberish but in esoteric words, which to me is exactly what it's doing.
Genuine question. My son struggles in class not because the material is too hard but because everything moves too fast for him to actually absorb it before they're already on the next thing. His teachers aren't doing anything wrong, it's just the class just can't wait for one kid. Is self-paced learning actually effective or is it a marketing term at this point?
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