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Absurdities of English Spelling

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Absurdities of English Spelling The following is an article by The English Spelling Society on poems showing the absurdities of English spelling. The classic spelling poem is Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité, published by SSS in Journal 17. I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble, but not

“Is there really a ‘science of reading’ that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read?”

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“Is there really a ‘science of reading’ that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read?” The Washington Post, Valerie Strauss, January 26, 2021 “One of the longest-running education debates — commonly referred to as a war — has been over how to teach reading. It started in the 1800s, when Horace Mann, often