[AJD] Being really tacky today

Sat Jan 14 15:21:34 PST 2006

I'm not sure just where this is going and I know it is about spelling, not
reading.  I would add this:  my middle son, who is 47 yrs. old, learned to
read by word recognition.  There was no phonetics or "sounding out" of the
words.  It was/is really a handicap for him, he still has difficulty reading
words that he doesn't 'recognise', and he is a college grraduate too.  I
think phonetics in both spelling and reading is important.  Granted, some
words don't work phonetically but I think that's easier to work with than
word recognition. The moral of the story is: I think both are important. I
might add that I'm no teacher, my degree is in agronomy so I'm just an old
farm boy.  My 2 cents worth.  John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Spiegelberg" <louis at kellnet.com>
To: "'Antique John Deere mailing list'"
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: [AJD] Being really tacky today

> Dean,
>
> My son is in 1st grade.  They tell him to sound out words when he spells
> them.  I see this as being a problem in the future.  As we all know, words
> in the English language aren't always spelled like they sound.  I asked
the
> teacher why don't they just make the kids memorize the why words are
> spelled.  She said that discourages the kids.  That's funny, it worked for
a
> couple hundred years before this new way of spelling.  Are we going to go
> back to the way of spelling, before Webster wrote the dictionary?
>
> I have a comments page for my website.  A high school teacher once
contacted
> me through that method.  The grammar and spelling was so poor, it took me
> about 15 minutes to try to figure out what he was trying to say.  I am in
no
> way trying to say my grammar is perfect.  I know it isn't.  But it is a
sad
> state when the teacher teaching our kids can't even use proper grammar.
How
> are our kids suppose to learn it then?
>
> Lou
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> Dean VP
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:04 PM
> To: AT JD
> Subject: [AJD] Being really tacky today
>
>
> I'll apologize for being tacky up front on this one. But here goes! I know
> that I misspell words here on ATIS occasionally (maybe often) but
sometimes
> it is due to my poor typing skills.  And I don't worry about it a whole
lot
> due to a bit of feeling that an occasionally misspelled word isn't going
to
> offend too many list members. But I just read an eBay listing for a JD 40
T
> that really struck me as being indicative of what we are graduating from
> high school these days. The person originating the listing admits to
> attending college at the present time. I counted at least 10 obvious
> spelling errors in the listing. He is from Ohio, it appears, but is
> attending college in NY supposedly.
>
> I guess maybe I noticed this more due to an experience we had with our
> oldest daughter when she was in junior high school. She just had a heck of
a
> time with spelling and after much extra work she ended up in the high
school
> honors program and did off-campus accelerated school work. But it took
some
> extra focus to get her there. She attended college at the University of
> Washington and graduated with honors with a degree in Education with a
> business minor (Dad caused that minor :-)). She has taught school for over
> 18 years and now is a High School English teacher, has also picked up a
> Masters degree and has enough credits that would qualify her for a
Doctorate
> degree but hasn't pursued it. But it just shows that spelling issues don't
> have to be a lifetime handicap.
>
> BTW, my daughter, to this day, blames Max Raferty who was the head guy in
> the California State School system at the time my daughter was in
Elementary
> school. She had a year or two of elementary instruction where the only
thing
> that was taught was the phonetic way of spelling. She says it handicapped
> her for life!  :-)
>
> But anyway, this particular eBay listing just struck me as being a bit
over
> the edge. I'm sure it was triggered by the fact the seller mentions he is
in
> college but... what really set me off was he spelled it as "colledge".
:-)
>
> See eBay auction #  7581656930
>
> Ok, how many spelling errors did I make in this message?  :-) I know, I
have
> it coming. Do it to me! And yes, I know my sentences are too long!  :-)
>
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
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