[senco-forum] reading asoft

whatsoever in research. It is, however, a striking example of people

I hate to generalise, but I should imagine that most sencos, support staff
and others who work with children with literacy difficulties do not
usually find it hard to read misspellings.

Most of the children I taught had problems with spelling, especially when
first brought to my notice, ranging from phonetically correct to downright
bizarre.  It was usually possible to decode the latter from context, or by
asking the child to read the piece of writing to me (quietly and not in
front of anyone else).  Sometimes the child could not remember what a word
was meant to be, but that could happen with the occasional misspelling in
written work from a child without problems, too!

Regards

Jean

 The passage you quote is an internet meme; it has absolutely no basis
> whatsoever in research.  It is, however, a striking example of people
> believing something because they 'feel' it is right, rather than it
> actually being so!
>
> I can read most of those 'scrambled word' passages with very little
> difficulty, but I am a very highly skilled, experienced reader with a
> penchant for doing anagrams.
>
> http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
>
> I'm not sure what your point is about 'conventional' v 'phonetic'
> spelling.   'Phonetic' spelling just takes us a bit longer to work out
> because the sounds in the word are spelled in an unfamiliar/unexpected
> way.  If we had been reading pre-spelling standardisation text we would be
> prepared for the variation in spelling and decode rather faster (without
> the momentary "oh, that's spelled wrong but it 'says' xxxx," hiccupp in
> processing the word).
>
> (NB The meme you passed on does not contain any phonetic spelling)
>
> Maggie
>
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