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I was shocked by the spelling, as much as the message. Surely, I thought, if it was a real message then the spelling would be correct. Spelling matters. In a text message from a friend teeing up a night out “c u at 8” is fine - but in an emergency warning text from a government agency, I expect the spelling to be standard. Spelling remains the most relentlessly tested of all the literacy skills, but it is the least taught. Sending a list of words home on Monday to be tested on Friday is not teaching. Looking, covering, writing and checking does not teach spelling.
And yet, this is a good summary of most of the current spelling programs in schools today. So, what should spelling teaching look like? Finding meaning That is not only very very hard, it’s pointless. More than sounds English is an alphabetic language; we use letters to write words. Where words come from. Word Sense.
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