Niels Hoven 🐮 ✓
@NielsHoven · Seattle, WA · joined 04 Sep 2007
Founder and CEO of @MentavaInc. Building early literacy software for preschoolers. Help me bring back excellence in education. Father of 4.
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Teachers who defend guessing at words as a viable "reading strategy" have a fundamental misunderstanding about what reading is.
Reading requires decoding the letter sounds that make up words. EVERY word can be read with zero context.
Guessing at the word, looking at pictures, h
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> "bitches on here are always yapping about why don’t they just teach phonics and like. why don’t you become a teacher then."
great idea! challenge accepted https://t.co/Yef1ROY2I6
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I have teachers in my replies trying to justify "using pictures to guess at words" as a legitimate reading "strategy"
If you're teaching any "strategy" for reading other than "look at the letters and read them", you're an idiot
The only people who need "strategies" for reading
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@JoeAnon2015 @CBayswater @NielsHoven Here is the whole list of strats commonly taught since people seem to think that guessing is the only strategy. https://t.co/oiMBcg38Og
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@AndStuffness @animorphs_kin @CBayswater @NielsHoven Did it ever occur to you that this is not the ONLY strategy they teach?
If you saw them doing finger painting would you think they only do finger painting all day long?
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god save us
this "predicting words supports comprehension" person is a literacy coach https://t.co/oELlHg34ud
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@NielsHoven @renegademormon Im literally a literacy coach trained in both fountas and pinnell style guided reading and heavy phonics based orton Gillingham.
The entire goal of balanced literacy is to teach both decoding (aka phonics),and comprehension in a meaningful context and
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And of course the biggest question about Mentava: Is it working? Are kids learning to read? Are they having fun? https://t.co/Ulig9BhR4d
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It's been about a year now, so I figure it's about time for me to come back and update this thread with some more recent testimonials: https://t.co/0wJt83ryrv https://t.co/bLipNpMATt
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@NielsHoven Don't forget the bullying, harassment, and violence. Since that's what the people who make these policies actually want to happen to smart nerdy kids. You're being far too charitable in accepting their framing.
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Update: “Mentava’s Alphabet Sounds” is now available in hardcover at https://t.co/7CoWCE1oaN and is the top new children’s reading book on Amazon.
(We make and sell these books at cost, we make no profit on them.) https://t.co/2Im2v0NRG0
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Alphabet books teach reading wrong. They focus on letters when kids should be learning sounds.
There are 44 sounds in the English language! Kids need to learn all of them but alphabet books only teach 26.
So we made a better book and we're giving it away for free. https://t.co/
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We also have a free ebook designed to help younger (12-36 months) kids recognize sounds that other alphabet books ignore.
It also includes a quick test to check if your child is developmentally ready for our software.
You can get the book at https://t.co/BvR81sqYOn. https://t.
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The goal of modern education policy is not “helping every kid achieve their potential”, but rather “closing the gap” between high achievers and low achievers.
Unfortunately, this means that many high-achieving students are intentionally slowed down, and held back to allow their
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Face aux comptes de taille comparable
7 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé bien au-delà de son propre public, et ce public réagit.
Vues médianes11 993ce compte946médiane pour 10K–100K
Portée, %35.46%ce compte3.31%médiane pour 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.55%ce compte1.89%médiane pour 10K–100K
| Indicateur | Ce compte | Médiane pour 10K–100K | Rapport |
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| Vues médianes par post | 11 993 | 946 | 12.7× |
| Portée (vues ÷ abonnés) | 35.46% | 3.31% | 10.7× |
| Taux d'engagement | 2.55% | 1.89% | 1.35× |
Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →
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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.89%.
What the audience does
Likes74.5%3 190 in total
Reposts4.4%190 in total
Replies4.7%202 in total
Quotes1.5%63 in total
Bookmarks14.9%639 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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