Developmental Spelling In Children

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 internet world and make life easier! Thankfully, spelling comes naturally to children due to not only their development, but their surroundings. “The beliefs that correct spelling gives writing credibility, and that developments in technology have not …show more content…
It is important to remember that even though spelling may be looked at as a “developmental milestone”, every child develops their skills differently. Spelling has always been one of my favorite tasks to cover with students in the classroom. It is so interesting to see how they first piece together the sound, to letters, to awareness of orthographic patterns, to syllables, to meaning knowledge, and then finally to correct spelling. As a teacher, it is always so exciting to see a child throw letters together and jump for joy when they are expressing the meaning of the word for you! Or when they spell out “KAT” but really mean cat! Everyone who is a teacher would be SO excited because even though the word is not technically spelt correctly, the student is matching the meaning to a word and used most of the correct letters to match the sound! And in their defense, the C and K are sometimes hard to …show more content…
(Kirsty Young) Based on the developmental stages of spelling, six three year olds were chosen to participate in a research study. Three of the students showed to be in the within- word stage (one just entering this stage), one in the syllable juncture stage, one later syllable juncture stage, and one who had mastered all, but the derivational stage. (Kirsty Young) When research is done on young children, it is always so interesting to see where they stand differently from one another and the similarities that they tend to have. Until I read this article, I had no idea that there were developmental stages of spelling. What I find to be even more interesting is that the children have no idea what they are being researched for, therefore it is a much unbiased research. It’s neat that even though the children are so different from one another, they still follow the same stages of spelling