Some more writing by pupil with spelling difficulty




Here is another piece of writing, this time by an S1 pupil. What do you think would be a good strategy for this pupil? 

My name is Mark. I live in a town called Hawick. I have a mum, dad, tow brothers. I have a pet dog calld Buddy, tropicol fish, Gold fish and a stick  insect. I was born in the BJH. I was born on the 3 Desember 1995 I thinck other people see me as funny.

My hair coler is blond. Myn eyes are green. I wode lock to chang my appearance

Continues …………………..

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2 Responses to “Some more writing by pupil with spelling difficulty”

  1.   hazel Johnson Says:
    October 24th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    Hello Philip

    I think this can child can spell but is rather careless – perhaps become too reliant on spellcheck

    Hazel

  2.   Steven Strother Says:
    October 24th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    The pupil could use MS spell check. There are not too many errors so he would not be confronted with a whole page of underlined text.

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