Costs
Permitting or encouraging children to spell inventively has some costs.
- According to some research, children may learn to spell correctly faster if they are taught to do so in a direct and systematic way.
- Encouraging inventive spelling may delay children's conventional spelling development.
- Early excitement about writing may give way to later frustration when students feel a lack of confidence about their misspellings.
- Some students like to spell things correctly and may resist attempts to get them to spell inventively.
- Practicing bad spelling habits ingrains them and makes them difficult to overcome, while spelling correctly from the beginning eliminates this problem.
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