Our society expects that any educated person can spell, yet literate adults commonly characterize themselves as poor spellers and make spelling mistakes. Many children have trouble spelling, but we do not know how many, or in relation to what standard, because state accountability assessments seldom...
If you’re not sure what this means, stay tuned for the next post in this series. Put simply, spelling isn’t one-to-one. We’re not using a single letter to spell each sound. If that were true,phones would be spelledfonz.When spelling this word, we consider phonology and spell eac...
How old was Louisa May Alcott when she died? How old is Susan in The Chronicles of Narnia? How old is Tess in Tess of the d'Urbervilles? How old are the Pevensies in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader? How old was Christopher Paolini when he wrote Eragon?
Sadly some people just don't recognize the value of ‘hand-made' goods these days so you can't always achieve the price you need. Many people still do, however (it's just finding the right venue to sell to them) and there are plenty of people sewing to sell, enjoying their work, a...
But some children hide their spelling difficulties by only using simple one-syllable words that they're sure they know how to spell. In that case, you'll notice that their sentence structure is quite repetitive. Each sentence may start with the same phrase, such as “I like to paint. I ...
The chances are that, like me, you managed to learn to read and spell without being explicitly taught about schwa. Schwa remains, however, an important part of the English code and all of us will have students who need to understand it in order to fully ‘crack’ that code and make max...
Finally, succinctly spell out the main conclusions. There are also some key things to avoid in an abstract. Lists (e.g. of gene names or species) make for hard reading and detract from the main message and large amounts of technical detail can be off-putting – there’s no need to ex...
You may find it interesting when you spell it backward. iTunes enables users to sync music from iTunes to iPod, iPhone and iPad, and Senuti has the capability to transfer songs from iOS devices to Mac. Highly support Mac OS X 10.4 and later version, Senuti is a commercial music app ...