Spelling bee

paper is trying to address the sensitive issue of police brutality and how the public reacts to police officers. There were several occasions of repetition throughout the paper which distracts the reader and deviates from the essence of the point. Spelling mistakes were found which states that Johnson hadn’t paid attention to spell check. While the sources surely strengthen the argument it does take the attention away from the paper and it would take the readers need to read, away from the…

poignant prose you have to pull at the heart of a reader with your choice of words. Knowing the origin or etymology of a word tells you which selections go well together, and the word’s etymology is only clear through its spelling! I will have to sit down with my children to practice spelling and make it a family effort so we all can benefit from mommy’s endeavor into the literary…

completing the lesson she encourages them by saying “If I should that to your mom would she be happy?” She engages the students with her tone of voice sometimes even singing in the classroom. Most the time I have been there the class has been working on spelling and phonics. It seems the students are excited about literacy. Every time they are in a literacy lesson the students seem actively engaged and…

his peers spelling acquisition. The words spelled correctly, feature points, and the total feature score will be explained along with the rationalization for grouping the students recorded in this classroom composite inventory. Also, a description of the features that each group will begin working on and the activities that will be used to reinforce each student’s orthographic knowledge will be addressed. The data collected is in the form of handwritten responses to the Elementary Spelling…

Grammar Check, online dictionaries, audio books and Paper Rater. I personally know the struggle of having difficulty reading and writing. I know having these resources have truly helped me in both reading and writing. Before I always had issues with my spelling and it would really effect my grades, when we were able to use computers and the resources that had been opened up, I started to do better. I remember other classmates laughing whenever I would mess up a word because I could not read the…

After reading over the article about developmental spelling, I found myself in shock that there is still a sense of spelling in this world. I cannot express enough how many people have begun to rely on “internet” terms as their new sense of spelling. I actually had a co-worker fill out an accident report at work a few weeks ago and wrote “U” and “Lol” on the paper. Completely mind blown, I looked at her and asked how are we supposed to teach children, when we are un-teaching ourselves to fit the…

There are many ways people define the term “laziness”. For example, as we discussed in class, we touched on how the older generations describe the younger generations as lazy due to the advances in technology that make what was once a difficult task an easy one to complete and out of jealousy. Laziness is viewed by many people as a negative characteristic to have, but after reading and analyzing Christopher Morley’s essay, we see how he views “laziness” and how he uses syntax and satire to…

Mrs. McGrath tells us to clean up and sort our belongings. She reminds us to read over the weekend and not forget our homework. I gather up all my schoolwork and put them in my neatly sorted desk. I reach in for my homework folder and make sure my assignments are in there.Mrs.McGrath sends us to our lockers to put our homework in our homework. We eventually line up to go to Mrs. Key’s socials studies class. She's very mean to us except to four students .She gives them cool nicknames out of the…

1. Level of Spelling Development Strategies: Consonant Bland and Consonant Digraph Activity Folders, Word Wall Daniella’s letters indicate that she is at the within-word pattern spelling stage of development. Daniella is starting to experiment with consonant digraphs and consonant blends. Daniella is decoding words by analogy. She used the letter “f” to spelling the word elephant (elefant). To help Daniella with consonant blends and digraphs, she is going to use activity folders. In the…

This may seem to alleviate key learning difficulties of dyslexia, yet, spellcheckers may help in as little as 40% of misspellings; the worse someone’s spelling is, the more problematic it is to use a spell checker (MacArthur et al., 1996). Furthermore, whilst handwriting might seem like a trivial issue amongst others, there is a growing field of research supporting the notion that handwriting is a vital…