Sergeant Bucky Yarns

Lawyer, crafter, fangirl. She/her.

[fairyinthetrees]

going with the flow in a face down in a river kinda way

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[princessofbooks]

If anyone wants further reading about why we use the three cueing method and the reasons it doesnt work this is a really good article

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

[cutecipher]

Things you can milk

the bit

the creature

almond

[toesuckler]

baa...?

[yossyislandd]

congratulatiosn! it is a the creature.

[oneheadtoanother]

[cosmonautroger]

[irgendwas-dazwischen]

let's embrace play in the face of finite existence with mama

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[call-me-moby-dick]

[animentality]

[opossum-mypossum]

[feralratbitesu]

breakfast from when before i eated it

[feralratbitesu]

okay. here is my breakfast from before time began

[bestiolin]

maarten inghels

[animate-mush]

@sherbertilluminated there's a line somewhere in Ursula Vernon's Digger that goes something like "it is difficult to be metaphysical around the truly geologically minded"

[mariacallous]

[peteneems]

[oneheadtoanother]

[olicrosse]

[cephalopodvictorious]

fixed it

[star-thief]

[mysharona1987]

[kosmogrl]

[segamascott]