Kweshun
I dated a dude for many years while in my twenties whose mom was a third grade teacher and she had MAJOR ISSUES with allowing creative spelling, and it was very much encouraged in the lower grades of her school district. She said it led to the kids pronouncing the words wrong and not identifying related words, and that they essentially had to learn things twice. I was surprised to find out that this method is still used. (On a side note, she also wasn't allowed to correct their pronunciation of words if it was a dialect issue, and for some reason every kid there said skreet instead of street and it drove her nuts.)
I can see both sides of it but only after a foundation of proper spelling is established because I would hate to see a child's written expression limited to her Spelling List, but, speaking for myself, we carried our own well-worn dictionaries every day up until probably fifth grade to help solve that problem.
Personally I don't see this doing anyone any favors.
What do you think?
And do you guys remember learning to read? I know people like Sam learned so freaking young (2.5) that there's no way he does but I remember sitting in kindergarten and going through a chart several times a day of letter combos (spelling chords?) and the sound they made. It was like a drill that the entire class participated in. We'd run the chart in order and then she would just randomly point at "CH" or "ST" and it was hard for our little brains to snap around like that but I loved it. To this day I don't really sound words out but read them as complete symbol. What do you guys do?
I can see both sides of it but only after a foundation of proper spelling is established because I would hate to see a child's written expression limited to her Spelling List, but, speaking for myself, we carried our own well-worn dictionaries every day up until probably fifth grade to help solve that problem.
Personally I don't see this doing anyone any favors.
What do you think?
And do you guys remember learning to read? I know people like Sam learned so freaking young (2.5) that there's no way he does but I remember sitting in kindergarten and going through a chart several times a day of letter combos (spelling chords?) and the sound they made. It was like a drill that the entire class participated in. We'd run the chart in order and then she would just randomly point at "CH" or "ST" and it was hard for our little brains to snap around like that but I loved it. To this day I don't really sound words out but read them as complete symbol. What do you guys do?