I get the need to blow off steam when grading a stack of essays. But, can we not make fun of students’ spelling errors and other infelicities in their writing? This is especially frustrating when students may have heard a word but not really seen it spelled.
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There is research that discusses why this happens because of bilingualism, multilingualism, and various kinds of language acquisition issues. 2. several kinds of neurodiversity not to mention learning disabilities means that students cannot actually see these spelling errors.
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and 3. why are we blaming students when for a very long spate of time I saw what happened to students' spelling in the California K-12 system when they all had the bright idea of doing away w/ phonics and taught people how to read and spell w/ the look-see method. Why are we
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