Spelling Trauma: An Anecdote of Frustration
Reblogged from Reading in the Borderlands:
This summer, students in READ 6313 Literacy Development and Language Study were asked to contribute a post to this blog.
By M.R. Graham
Young writers go through a period during which they want to use words they do not know how to spell. They cope by inventing a spelling, just like very small children invent or mispronounce words. The standard teacher response to these attempts seems to be not praise for an expanding vocabulary, but criticism for nonstandard spelling.
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