English spelling reform

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…

The Story Behind my Learning I am a senior in high school which means I have learned, for 13 years of my life, how to read, write, look for details in a writing, close read, and how to fix my own writing. That seems like a lot, but I know that I still do not know everything about reading and writing. I can’t specifically remember the first time I started to read, however I do remember maybe in first or second grade, copying words over and over again trying to learn how to spell them. Then, I…

Hunter Gay. G-A-Y. As in homosexual. Nope, no ‘e’ on the end. Yeah, I know it is a weird name. Oh, ha, ‘gay hunter’! That’s such an original joke! These are all phrases that I have grown accustomed to saying ever since I was old enough to understand why my name was such a unique one. I’ve had enough people comment on my name that it’s become a bigger part of who I am than it would be to most people. I didn’t let my name only be something that people called me, but rather something that shaped…

How many times have you been told that technology- texting, email, or social media- has done nothing but ruin Standard English? For me, I couldn’t count on both hands how many times I have been told that texting and social media have ruined spelling, grammar, and multiple others. Also, I have heard that technology could be helping literacy. This topic is controversial for many people, they are on either side of the spectrum. I have made it my goal to find evidence that gave some truth to the…

The following list are six take aways that I have gotten from ENG 315 about writing instruction. The six topics are shared writing, inventive spelling, genre with purpose, mini lessons, revising, build writing into daily schedule, and integrating writing and reading together. Throughout class discussions, chapter readings, article readings, assignments, and writing placement, I was able to understand the following aspects of writing more concretely. Revising: Revising was a topic we…

The Bee is centered around the story of an 11-year-old African American girl, Akeelah. Despite being cunning, she attends a school that appears to be have a history of low academic achievement. She is encouraged by her principle to participate in a spelling bee, and later qualifies for the nationals. This movie is a portrayal of Akeelah’s voyage to a national title, with the help of her coach Dr. Larabee, and later on, the help of her family and community (Fishburne & Atchison, 2006). This paper…

never got in trouble, and I never went into the principal’s office. I did my homework most of the time. I made good grades, and I even made it to the spelling bee two consecutive years. The first year I was in the third grade. I remember that year vividly. During the semifinals I completely obliterated my opponents. It wasn’t even close. The spelling bee that day lasted maybe only 20 minutes. I flew through those words like Donald Trump’s toupee flies off his head in the wind. “Hahahaha! You…

LIN 3010 Word Formation Processes - Compounding o Obamacare: 2013 noun: term for the Affordable Care Act that does not have the same meaning as when the terms are broken. o Humblebrag: 2011 verb: when the two words are combined, the term’s meaning changes to an expression of false humility, especially be celebrities on Twitter. o Lumbersexual: 2014 noun: when the morphemes are stick together, the term means a fashionable rugged man who adopts the stereotypical dress and facial hair of a…