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Pressing the Reset Button on Spelling
It’s a pyjama day today. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, “It’s always a pyjama day for Lyn!”. Well, in spirit, yes, yes it is,
30 Years: Looking forward, looking back
A re-enactment of Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ 30 years ago I lived to tell the tale. July 4th is always a special day for me. Apart
Speech to Print Solutions: Receive
Today’s word is ‘receive’. It comes up almost every time I ask a room of people about difficult words. It’s almost always taught alone as
When high quality teaching is ‘necessary’, S2P won’t help
Here’s one of my favourites: necessary. My approach was once to come up with a cute memory trick like the ones you see on YouTube,
Speech to Print Solutions: ‘was’
Today’s Speech to Print and other dubious practices solution centres around the word ‘was’. Since my first article on the S2P movement, there have been
Speech to Print Solutions: said and there (and Robert Frost)
Today’s popular words are ‘said’ and ‘their’. Guaranteed to come up whenever you ask a room of teachers about tricky words. Use the irregular words