Quick Spelling Wisdom Question

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  • October 15, 2015 at 1:51 pm
    lettucepatchkids
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    First time using SW here… in book 2 with my 11 year old DD. What do you do if she adds in a word to the dictation? (like adding the word the)

    or if she misses punctuation?  (like omitting a comma)

    October 15, 2015 at 6:32 pm
    HollyS
    Participant

    I haven’t had them add words, but I often remind them to check their punctuation if I notice a comma missing.  I usually wait until they are finished to see if they’ll correct it themselves.

    October 16, 2015 at 1:02 pm
    lettucepatchkids
    Participant

    So what I did was ask her to look at passage in the book and see if she notices any errors … She saw the added word right away and just erased it.  Is that right… Or should I make her redo the passage?

     

    fwiw the passage was : “You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.”

    She wrote “You may deceive all OF the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time”

     

    I am leaning towards no big deal…. I just don’t want to encourage bad attention habit you know?

    October 16, 2015 at 1:46 pm
    HollyS
    Participant

    Sometimes I have my DC compare the passages.  When they find a mistake, they can fix it.  For mispelled words, it’s best to cover up the mispelling with a post-it tab or white-out, but that isn’t the case with an added word or forgotten comma.

    October 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm
    lettucepatchkids
    Participant

    great… I’ll just continue on with self checking if she misses punctuation. We haven’t had a missed spelling word… yet… I have the posts it ready 😉

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