luvsJack
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- Apr 3, 2007
At my kids school, they no longer give spelling tests. Their philosophy is that they need to sound out the words, and write the way it sounds, and THEN eventually they will figure out how to spell it correctly. What?!
I don't get it at all. I have a junior in hs and he cannot spell very well at all. My younger ones are better, but I also (I know, bad mom) took it upon myself to spend more time with them after I figured out that the school wasn't helping, on how to spell.
Do these school officials speak, read and write in English??? I mean, come on! There are way too many words in the English language that are not spelled phonetically correct or that to work.
Many years ago when my eldest was in K they started the "Writing to Read" to program. The kids would write little stories and stuff spelling phonetically. They then found out that although the kids could read, they couldn't spell! Changed the reading program at our school and amped up the spelling.