Wilde article.

This article was very interesting. The man thing that caught my attention was when they were talking about the little girl who had the word "Sister" but had spelled it so far off from the actually word that she could not find it in the dictionary. I had this trouble all the time as a kid. Some one would say "Look it up in a dictionary" and then I would get so frustrated and overwhelmed by the fact that I could not find the word in the dictionary. So in fact the dictionary method did not work at all for me! I remember being so frustrated when some one would say that to me because I knew that I wasn't going to ever learn how to spell the word because I couldn't find it!

Another thing that I found interesting was writing the word down spelled wrong even though you know its wrong because you just wanted to get it out on paper to remind you later of whatever you had written down. I do this so many times in notes for class. You are trying to move along quickly and fill out notes that when you come to word that you cant think of the spelling right away you just write done something close and move on so you can keep up. I also hate when some one asks me for my notes for a class they missed because my spelling is usually so horrible in them that I am ashamed to let them see it!

Another thing that I found interesting is that the author said that learning to spell correctly was not for the teacher who was grading it, or for the writer themselves, but for the reader. I never really thought of it that way, but it is true. I, as the person that wrote it can read it, even with wrong spelling and not skip a beat, and the teacher is reading it critically and slowly to find errors, but a reader is just trying to enjoy the story and should not be held up by your spelling errors. That is very interesting to me because i never looked at it that way before!

Erin