January 1, 2017
I’m saying goodbye to 2016 in appropriate fashion: spending time with my family, eating a lot, fighting a cold, and studying word things. Over the years […]
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January 3, 2017
OK, Phombies, let’s consider phonics from the perspective of professional development. Phonics requires participants to memorize arbitrary sets of made-up things, like these: ~phonograms, which may […]
January 6, 2017
The reaction to my claims about nonsense words being, you know, nonsense, has been ongoing and wide — including four continents, pro-phonics people and anti-phonics people […]
January 16, 2017
Every year, Doug Harper and I put our heads together to figure out what we’re going to study for and with the folks who show up […]