Comments on: Let the real school work begin http://www.beagooddad.com/1325/let-the-real-school-work-begin/ Feel free to fix my typos in your head as you are reading Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:05:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rachel http://www.beagooddad.com/1325/let-the-real-school-work-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-30647 Rachel Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:23:21 +0000 http://www.beagooddad.com/?p=1325#comment-30647 I like Pookie's elaboration. I hate giving spelling tests to kids, probably because I'm a big fan of invented spelling. I always try to make weird sentences to make the tests fun. I like Pookie’s elaboration. I hate giving spelling tests to kids, probably because I’m a big fan of invented spelling. I always try to make weird sentences to make the tests fun.

]]> By: DustyShelf http://www.beagooddad.com/1325/let-the-real-school-work-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-30645 DustyShelf Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:00:03 +0000 http://www.beagooddad.com/?p=1325#comment-30645 <I>I always thought that I was a good speller back then just because I was such a good reader but maybe the connection between the two isn’t exact.</I> When I lived in Japan, I noticed there were characters I could read, but which I could not reproduce when it came time to write them--I generally could only remember a prominent feature or two. From that, I inferred that the memory for reading and writing must be different. In the case of the former, all you have to do is rely on your innate pattern-matching circuitry, whereas with writing, you have to have actually stored the steps to inscribe the character somewhere. I always thought that I was a good speller back then just because I was such a good reader but maybe the connection between the two isn’t exact.

When I lived in Japan, I noticed there were characters I could read, but which I could not reproduce when it came time to write them–I generally could only remember a prominent feature or two. From that, I inferred that the memory for reading and writing must be different. In the case of the former, all you have to do is rely on your innate pattern-matching circuitry, whereas with writing, you have to have actually stored the steps to inscribe the character somewhere.

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