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"Rosalie B." wrote in message ... My niece is considering sending her child to private school because they don't have spelling in the her son's class. The reason given is that some people in the class are not native English speakers. Does that reason make sense to anyone? It doesn't to me. It doesn't make sense. I don't think you'll convince the school that, though. Of all children who need to learn how to spell, it would be the non-native speakers, since they likely have little exposure to writing English at home. If they don't learn it at home and at school, where would they learn it? |
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Rosalie B. wrote:
My niece is considering sending her child to private school because they don't have spelling in the her son's class. The reason given is that some people in the class are not native English speakers. Does that reason make sense to anyone? It doesn't to me. I never learned to spell until I learned to type because up to then I didn't read the individual letters in the word (I was taught the whole word method rather than phonics). But with all the texting etc that goes on, spelling seems to be almost irrelevant. My sister (whose grandchild this is), is a newspaper editor and she is mentoring a freshman student at one of the Ivy League schools. She says he has several times he has misspelled a word (college) but in misspelling it, he has spelled another word correctly (collage), and of course a spell checker doesn't pick that up. She asked if spelling was just not taught anymore. My 2nd-grader is taught spelling as part of vocabulary lessons. That is, he doesn't just get a list of words to spell. Most weeks, he's assigned a few pages in a vocabulary workbook - each lesson focuses on 10 words. There's always a short reading comprehension piece that includes all the words; then there are activities like answering a few questions about the story; a crossword puzzle or word search; questions like "Which of these 4 words doesn't fit with the others?" At the end of the week, he gets a spelling test on those 10 words. If he turns in written work with a misspelled word, the teacher notes it - at this age, it doesn't matter from a grade standpoint, though. Clisby |
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