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  2. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    James Watt was a surveyor and instrument maker and is described as being "largely self-educated". [15] Watt, like some other autodidacts of the time, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Lunar Society. In the eighteenth century these societies often gave public lectures and were instrumental in teaching chemistry and other ...

  3. Lesson - Wikipedia

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    "The Difficult Lesson" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884) Falconry lesson. A lesson or class is a structured period of time where learning is intended to occur. [citation needed] It involves one or more students (also called pupils or learners in some circumstances) being taught by a teacher or instructor.

  4. Hyperlexia - Wikipedia

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    Literacy education in South Korea involves teaching students entire words, rather than starting with the relationship between phonemes and letters in Hangul, despite evidence that letter name knowledge is useful for learning to read words that have not been taught. The results suggest that hyperlexics are able to obtain the relations between ...

  5. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words around the age of one year. In early word learning, infants build their vocabulary slowly. By the age of 18 months, infants can typically produce about 50 words and begin to make word ...

  6. Shunned in computer age, cursive makes a comeback in California

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    Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by ...

  7. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  8. Active learning - Wikipedia

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    Breaking down the skills that need to be taught, one step at a time, is more beneficial than teaching a large amount of knowledge all at the same time. This concept was developed based on the Zone of Proximal Development theory by Lev Vygotsky (1978). In practice, students start a lesson with higher expectations and in a positive class environment.

  9. These are the best starting words to use to play Wordle ... - AOL

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    Gray letters aren't in the answer, yellow letters appear in the word but in the wrong spot, and green letters are in the word and in the right place. WHY WE LOVE WORDLE: It's the diversion we need now