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I was wondering what Linus's Son uses that helped him learn reading quickly. He mentioned it in a WAN show but I don't remember what it was. I have a little sister beginning to read and a program like this would help allot.

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I don't know. But English lesson for you. When you are using a word that ends in a S, and are trying to make is possessive, don't use 's, just add an apostrophe. So instead of, "Linus's" you should of said, Linus'    

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I don't know. But English lesson for you. When you are using a word that ends in a S, and are trying to make is possessive, don't use 's, just add an apostrophe. So instead of, "Linus's" you should of said, Linus'    

 

This problem has been plaguing the internet since its inception. The fact that many people over the age of 12 cannot write properly is troubling. 

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This entire thread will have everyone correcting each other. >.>

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Try this. Works very well from age 4 and up.

 

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The New England Primer.

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I know it doesn't answer your question but this was the standard of English in the US for over 120 years, it teaches both how to read and speak properly in full thought.

Still beats the pants off anything we have in public school today.

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I think Linus is speaking about YT channel which does the teaching part. Some careful browsing over Lynda sponsor spots on last few WAN shows could be the answer.

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This problem has been plaguing the internet since its inception. The fact that many people over the age of 12 cannot write properly is troubling. 

 

At 12 years I wouldn't expect someone to write "properly". 

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I was able to write properly at the age of 12.

 

There is nothing wrong with encouraging a toddler who shows interest in subjects. Nothing wrong with that at all, it helped me immensely at school.

 

Forcing a toddler to learn things earlier than is perceived to be the "norm", I do have an issue with, though. This is speaking from my personal experience of having a cousin who was privately, home educated on top of going to an ordinary state school, forced to do extra-curricular activities such as ballet, constantly had her praises and expectations sung by her parents at any family gathering. It lead to her having huge issues with anorexia and depression/anxiety as she grew up once she failed a couple of exams and the parents forced her to retake, etc.

 

As long as you're sensible about it, it's all good and it is fantastic that the child has an interest in developing his own skills - it almost seems like a rarity in this day and age and I am pleased to hear Linus say that he controls how much tech time his boy gets - it'd be very easy with his job and the amount of tech they get asked to review to just let the child be a zombie in front of flashing lights and displays instead of dedicating quality time to him.

 

Long winded "thumbs up" to Linus, essentially. 

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/user/checkgate?&ab_channel=ABCkidTV

I think this might be the channel. I swear it had abc in its name.

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I don't know. But English lesson for you. When you are using a word that ends in a S, and are trying to make is possessive, don't use 's, just add an apostrophe. So instead of, "Linus's" you should of said, Linus'    

 

I don't know about you, but I would naturally pronounce it with an extra S when saying it aloud "Linus-es son", not, "Linus son" and so the rule I was taught was that if a personal name ends in S, if you would typically pronounce it with an extra S, it's 's 

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I don't know. But English lesson for you. When you are using a word that ends in a S, and are trying to make is possessive, don't use 's, just add an apostrophe. So instead of, "Linus's" you should of said, Linus'    

Funny thing is that both are accepted uses of possessive form in words ending with "s". So both Linus's and Linus' is correct.

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