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Owed to a Spell Chequer
Sometimes our critics characterize us as old fogies mired in the past and unable to change with the times. For example, they say, the advent of spell checking means that kids don’t need to learn good spelling any more. We offer the following for your delectation.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my Pea See
It planely marques four my revue
Miss steaks aye ken knot sea.
There’s more, but you get the idea. There are a number of additional reasons why it is important to teach kids to be good spellers, and some of them are listed in this article from our archives (the article includes a test that allows you to determine what grade level kids are spelling at). If your child tests out below par, then you should start working on his or her spelling. More information on how to go about this can be found in the Spelling section of our archives.
Spelling is important, especially at the high school level and post-secondary schools, in some school districts. It makes the greatest impact in grading papers because spelling grade is part of the overall marks, along with good grammar structure.
On a side note, and sort of off-topic I came across something that one never sees on the school board or ministry of education sites, outlining the best methods to instruct students with learning disabilities. Plus it is rare to see it on literacy agency sites, but in this case, the Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick hats off to creating a resource manual for best practices in adult literacy and learning disabilities. Far more useful, than the resources and literature being peddled at the public education sites, and a real pity that the public education sites, do not provide best practices for learning disabilities based on the science and research.
http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/alld/alld.pdf