Re: Spelling lesson. RANT

Posted by greenbeanman on November 18, 2004 at 21:34:28 from (4.244.189.243):

In Reply to: Re: Spelling lesson. RANT posted by Nathan in MN on November 18, 2004 at 14:20:22:

You are certainly correct about handwriting going out the window in favor of typed text and spell check.

I'm sure spell check would miss out on these examples--"Pare a pair of pears for me please."
"Two men thought it too far to walk to town."

I see many newspaper articles that quite obviously have been checked with spell check rather than with a competent editor.

I work in a library and really think the key to education is sparking in interest in reading at an early age, i.e. giving children the desire to read which means that they passively learn vocabulary, spelling, grammar, etc.

Show me a child with good grades and you can almost bet that his or her parents gave them plenty of opportunity to read books when small.

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