05/21/2012:
"aye am a kyd that groo upp on inventid spilling and ay am now de CEO of a
multinational conglomerate. so peepl can groe up an bee sussessful as
binsness peepl. U got to C how dis ain't no bigg deel.
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05/11/2012:
"The point of this article is not to 'teach' wrong spelling it is to allow
PRESCHOOLERS to develop their own understand of written language. That way
when conventional spelling is taught they already have a foundation of
experience learning. Many US students and adults have spelling issues
because they DIDN'T learn this way. Memorizing what letters make a word is
not understanding. This method allows for young children to explore
language before they are taught what is correct. If you actually did some
research you would see that the majority of inventive spellers learn
conventional spelling faster, more efficiently and tend to become better
readers. When your baby says 'dada,' for the first time you don't jump
down their through saying, "it's not dada its daddy." You encourage them
to further explore this new form of communication and they quickly grasp
the majority of concepts on their own. It is not until after they can
already speak and communicate efficiently that you im!
post grammatical rules upon them. This learning process is no different
in writing. If you read the article correctly you would realize that there
are stages, meaning that inventive spelling changes. It transforms and
transforms until it becomes correct. There is zero evidence that support
this idea of bad habits from inventive spelling. One cannot form bad
habits if what they write is constantly changing. Do some research and be
open to new ideas. Evidence has shown that inventive spelling can be very
lucrative for the majority of children. Find an article by Charles Read or
Carol Chomsky, these people do not right 'crap,' they are renowned
linguists and are completely supportive of inventive spelling.
"
05/3/2012:
"I think those who criticize are missing the point. Invented spelling is
to be encouraged in first grade to get kids writing, but not supposed to
continue into upper elementary and high school. When children are first
learning to read and write it is appropriate as it allows children to
start writing and solidifies the vowel sounds that they are learning to
recognize in reading. As time goes by they will be encouraged to spell
correctly. No one is saying a child should use invented spelling forever.
Research comparing children who were allowed to use invented spelling in
first grade tended to write more and spell more correctly by the end of
first grade than children who were corrected for every word that was
incorrect. The point is to get them writing at the beginning and let them
practice phonics skills. As they move into second grade, then invented
spelling will be allowed less and less as they move over to checking
spelling with a dictionary, seeing that it looks right and practicing
correct words. It is a means to an end .....not the end product.
"
04/23/2012:
"As an educator, I am disgusted by this article. I teach high school
history and the majority of my students have atrocious spelling and
grammar skills. The fact that our education system is encouraging
"invented spelling" is insane; it's as though we are deliberately trying
to make our students dumb and illprepared to compete in the real world.
Whoever supports this should be ashamed, as it is setting up our youth for
future failure.
"
02/28/2012:
"This is horrible! Phonetics is the best way for a child to be able to
sound out any word no matter how long. My sons school uses Riggs Phonics
and he can sound out and read any word by using the rules. I hope when my
son attends 2nd grade at a new school they do not use this garbage. This
shows a child a short cut way and pushing kids to learn the phonetic
sounds of letter phonograms will help them. My nephew is 3 and can read
from using this program. No wonder the education in the US is terrible.
The Charter school he is in pushes these kids and uses the teaching
methods and tools we had as children and scored higher than Private
schools. My kids has always been able to communicate way beyond most
children maybe because we never baby talked and always corrected his word
usage. Memorizing what a word looks like is not learning the word and the
public schools and their sight word garbage is just to get kids by not
really learn.
"
11/15/2011:
"I feel this is a very good idea. Sure...let's go back to the basics, that
for the last 20 years have failed miserably. What is wrong with embracing
change and trying out new things? The only way this will fail is if the
parents aren't on board and supportive in the homelife. You can't expect a
teacher to be the soul instructor in a child's life. The problem with
these 20-something year olds or teenagers that still use "invented
spelling" lies primarily with their parents and their support of the
learning environment. My five year old comes home from school every day
beyond herself with excitement that she can "write". So it's not 100%
right...who cares. All I do is say "That's wonderful honey! Now let's
find the right spelling of the word and a good picture so you can spell it
correctly next time."
People who condemn change in the learning environment are simply condoning
the stagnation of American culture and diversity.
"
09/21/2010:
"Inventive spelling is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a while.
Teaching children to spell correctly while teaching them the sounds of
letters goes hand in hand. Teaching them to spell incorrectly stays with
many of them. That is why so many adults are unable to spell. They were
never taught! For heaven's sake, they are taught to hold a pencil
correctly. Look at some young adults trying to write. You can tell who
went to public school from those who attended private, parochial or
charter schools! If educators truly want to improve education, they can do
it by throwing out some of the ludicrous propaganda from the NEA and use
their common sense. All the money in the world will not improve education
until we return to the basics that were taught 40 or 50 years ago. Visit a
charter school some time and observe a school that uses Direct Instruction
and Core Knowledge in the classroom. It works!"
02/18/2010:
"I don't think this is a good way of teaching spellings to the kids who are
beginning to learn. I think Americans always finds an easy way to do
things and end up making the issue worst. I don't recommend this for kids
at all. I have a daughter who is four years old and spells and reads very
well. I didn't use any of this crap to teach her. It's your child's
future, take time and spend time with your child. They learn a lot when
you spend more time with them."
11/24/2009:
"The sad thing is that you see so many teenagers these days still using
their 'invented spelling'. I think adults assume that 'texting language'
is used only for convenience, but in reality, the average teenager would
not be able to pass an age-appropriate spelling test. This is going to
make things very difficult for them in the workplace.
It is true that a child's imagination is important, but accountability
must be given. You mention reinforcing correct pronunciations, but not the
reinforcement of correct spelling. The fact is that a child's brain is
most malleable when the child is young, and that malleability should be
used in such a way that they benefit from growing and learning. Please
don't sell your children short. You'll be surprised how much they can
learn, if given the chance.
-age 21"
02/24/2009:
"Thank you so much for this informative letter. Keep up the good work"
02/24/2009:
"Thanks for the article and the great information. I am a former
kindergarten teacher with a young grandchild. I really appreciate the up
to date educational information."
02/18/2009:
"I know a woman that is 29 years old. She is still using invented spelling.
I want to know if this is a learning problem, development problem, or just
not a problem. I have not found anything on the www about this problem
with adults. Please inform me of anything that has to do with adult
invented spelling. Thanks"
05/5/2008:
"It's funny how we have all switched to teaching using 'whole language' and 'balanced appraoches' and have forgotten the importance in teaching with heavy concentration on Phonics. But since it has been put down for so many years but the teachers of this country, when we remember how important it is, we have to call it something else, so as to not give credit to phonics, and use strategies that do not actually teach anything. I keep forgetting that this is the role of todays teacher - to not teach anything and expect learning to occur anyway!"
02/25/2008:
"Do not like inventive spelling - it's slang."
02/19/2008:
"Here's the issue -- Americans can't spell worth a damn even if their life depended on it. It is plain embarrasing how poor a grown-up American's spelling is. However, Americans do excel in creativity (I wish I was encouraged to be more creative when I was little, growing up in India). It's a balancing act, right? Letting kids do a little bit of 'kid writing' is probably o.k., as long as spelling is enforced soon thereafter. Unfortunately, I don't see spelling being enforced. Perhaps we are too worried about scarring our children's self-esteem by telling them they are spelling something wrong..............."
02/15/2008:
"I love this article! It is what I've been telling parents since I began teaching 20 years ago. The students really are comfortable with their 'kid writing' . It encourages them to be creative! They aren't afraid to try to spell a word correctly. I emphasize, as they grow older they will learn 'grown up' writing, but for now they are just kids! There is time to learn the rules later, when they can understand them and apply them."
02/14/2008:
"This approach to learning is perfectly reasonable and logical to me. My first grader had a Kindergarten teacher who fostered writiing throughout the year in their classroom, at a time when none of the children could spell everything they wanted to write about perfectly. Using invented spelling freed them up to concentrate on being creative and learning to love to learn. Her spelling continued to improve and though no one sat her down and told her whenever she mispelled a word in one of her creative writing sessions, she now spells great-- for us it was a natural progression. "
01/8/2008:
"Spelling is always a sore subject, because the ENglish language is so random, with many words not following logical spelling and/or pronunciation patters. A lot of people have spent a lot of time coming up with various systems to help the process, but it seems to boil down to two core issues.
1 - The brain learns what it perceives as relevant... a core problem with phonics programs - I have yet to see one that is not putting form over content, thereby creating an irritatingly boring reading experience.
2 - I have yet to meet a person that pulls out a phonics or spelling rule when making a spelling decision. But I have seen hundreds of people stop their writing commenting that something does 'not look right.'
I just enrolled my daughter in a cool online spelling program that seems to solve the problem for her... she simply uploads her spelling words and the program practices them with her.
They have an interesting blog entry on this subject at www.eSpindle.org, called 'Cna yuo raed tihs.'"
10/24/2007:
"Simply unbelievable. Has it ever doned on the author of this method that children may be greatly confused ?
Why would phonetic spelling be OK at one point and not OK later after the child has been writing in that manner for years ?
And you wonder why we, Americans don't know how to spell ?????"
04/26/2007:
"Why don't we just call this phonics. Why do we have to invent something new every 20 years.
>From a kindergartener from the year 1960."
