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Great work LADYCEEMARIE! I value Reading speciliasts-took those courses too

--but some reading teachers I have met need to go back to school and counting lessons. That's not nice, but its

's not nice to make a living off schoolchildren who end up paying, and paying, and paying. It is strange how Teachers' Unions are welcomed and other real unions are barely tol;erated by their employers! Teachers are employed by kids who don'tvote, and others do it for them! Shalom and congrats on the artery pass!

posted by salem8 on March 3, 2007 at 8:54 AM | link to this | reply

YP-

I did count the "fors" and came up with 10.  When I slowed down and reread it, I got 7 or less than the first count.  On the third time, I was back to ten.  When I read for "fars" I got seven.  When I taught American History in the 70s and the 90s, I used to correct spelling and the kids would say, "Hey, this is History class, not English class."  I told them to get used to it.  They needed to apply English skills in every class if they were to communicate effectively. By the 90s, we finally coordinated and did some cross-curricular teaching.  It went over big.  In between time(the 80s), I taught junior high reading and was counting syllables and numbers of words to calculate reading levels. So I'm trained to count words, graduate level - - makes you wonder what else they give degrees in?? 

I agree, it is important to use correct spelling and grammar usage in the real world.  My sister-in-law tried to write brochures, but the number of errors led to the end of her business.  My other SIL was also a teacher, so picky us would read through her work my mother would proudly display and we'd just point to mistakes, and they were subtle but even with a spell check, some of them would have popped out. We got a reputation for being fussy!

How did I do?

ladyceemarie

posted by LadyCeeMarie on March 1, 2007 at 8:54 PM | link to this | reply

Darling, it's not EITHER-OR. It is always both. That's Wholistic education

In US history, it is not only "US" but "us" and "them" even though "them" changes every time. From Indians, to Quakers, to Anglicans, to Catholics, to Jews, to Africans, to Negroes, to Blacks, to immigrants from China (1882), from Japan (1907), from all of Asia (1924) to communists, to terrorists... Spelling is important because it helps teach language and writing at the same time. Phonemes and Graphemes. But they need to complement each other; as in allopathy and homeopathy, or western medicine and traditional.

Spelling will matter a greta deal if I consistently spelled your name Cahole, cahole, or insisted on lower case. So conventions (and spelling is a convention that changes slowly over time) do matter in some important aspects of life. It would also matter if I said I was visiting DAKAR versus DACCA. I better stop ...but you are right. We use this kind of example with teachers, student- teachers and students. Also placing letters in certain ways will allow one to miss how many times one sees that word, small words or larger ones. Quickly now, how many for appears below.

"He said he would wait for me for an hour. Far from it, he waited

for only 59 minutes and left for his date. Why wait, you ask. For

friendship. Or for friendship's sake. I read that book for a college

class, "Of abbreviations for foreigners from far away countries." I

preferred novels like "Far from the Madding Crowd." A farmer named

Boldwood is a sad character in it, but Gabriel Oak is far closer to a

hero. Bathsheba is quite a Victorian hussy. For us, she is a role model

especially for the females. She stands for independence, even in

farming English villages and it is far-fetched to say she's a hussy."

READ THIS FAST AND SAY HOW MANY "FOR" APPEARS. THEN READ IT AGAIN LESS FAST. SEE THE CHANGE? TRY IT ONCE MORE AND IF YOU ARE IN A CLASSROOM, THE STUDENTS ARE AMZED HOW MANY NEW "FOR" WORDS APPEARS. tHEN ASK IF ANY ONE REMEMBERS IF THE WORD "FAR" APPEARS MORE TOMES THAN THE WORD "FOR". enjoy....spread the joy. Much love, Neil.

Thanks you gave me another idea for a post. Shalom and Namasthe!

posted by salem8 on March 1, 2007 at 3:03 PM | link to this | reply

YP

I have a new one for you today!

i c dnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you cn sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

How did you do?

Ladyceemarie

posted by LadyCeeMarie on March 1, 2007 at 1:06 PM | link to this | reply

YP-

Here is a real Q&A from a science test:

Q:  How are the main parts of the body categorized? (e.g., abdomen)

A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity.  The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels, A, E, I, O, and U.

(I have more samples)

LadyCeeMarie

posted by LadyCeeMarie on February 28, 2007 at 2:54 PM | link to this | reply

Neil

Brillant job

posted by Kat02 on February 27, 2007 at 12:25 PM | link to this | reply

YPunday,

the trouble with us is that we assume the spelling is correct and that the grammar is also correct. It takes someone else to point out our mistakes.

posted by richinstore on February 27, 2007 at 7:03 AM | link to this | reply

Ypunday

I also lament the drastic decline in spelling and grammar that we see nowadays. My grammar-school English teacher would turn in her grave.

posted by mneme on February 27, 2007 at 4:01 AM | link to this | reply

HOw did you mangage to write so tough poem .

posted by afzal50 on February 27, 2007 at 12:19 AM | link to this | reply