Why Is Encouraging Young Students to Use Experimental Spelling a Positive

question 12

Multiple Choice

Why is encouraging young students to use experimental spelling a positive practice for beginning writers?

• A) Observations of experimental spellings can tell teachers a good deal about the student's knowledge of sound-spelling relationships.
• B) Attempting to sound out words offers the student important opportunities to experiment with sound-spelling relationships.
• C) Coupling experimentation with systematic instruction in the visual patterns of our language will help students learn to spell correctly.
• D) All of the above

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