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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Creativity is all well and good, but it should be combined with spelling. It’s a lot easier to spell “said” correctly if you haven’t got muscle memory of writing “sed” in the first place.

This is where they should be using technology. Have the child tell a story to their screen to exercise creativity. Then let the computer translate it to something spelled correctly that the student can copy to practice spelling.

[quote=Anonymous]^^but that being said, I agree that elementary school spends too much time on weird video clip "brain breaks" and ipad games in early elementary. i'm glad it's being rolled back in our kids school.  however, telling kids to be kind when reading eachother's work is not a bad thing.  we DO want to encourage reading and writing.  imagine if your kid wrote a paragraph and his friend said "this is stupid. i cant even tell what these words are supposed to spell anyways.".  Would that encourage a sensitive child to write better, or to not write/ write less/ use only words they are positive they can spell, therefore discouraging the use of larger more complex words and sentence structures?  some kids would take that sort of feedback as a challenge at age 7, sure.  But not most. [/quote][/quote]

A 7 year old who is spelling “said” as “sed” is not doing it at 17.  Relax.  [/quote]

As someone who gets emails from the general public, you're wrong. I see spelling like that all the time.[/quote]

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