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From: ganetauk
Date: Sun Apr 6, 2003 12:48am
Subject: Re: bad spellers and backward days
SPELLING STRATEGY
Good spellers almost invariably
Look Up & to Left - make remembered picture (Vr)
Check their feeling to make sure that the picture is "right" (K)
People who spell badly will use ineffective strategies such as trying
to sound out the word phonetically &/or try and make a picture of how
the word should look like from its sound. (Unfortunately, the English
language is a very "un-fonetic" language!). These strategies will not
work well for consistent correct spelling.
I'd suggest you try cotech chat one thursday...such subjects come up
and we discuss them in a way thats easy to understand, using
metaphors etc. Just a thought, don't take my word for it...ask others
what cotech is like...
:o) Regards TerryrreT
--- In a previous message na na wrote:
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> Im slightly confused......Ive started reading frogs into princes
and come to the part where its discussing cerebral organization.
according to the text it seems to imply that bad spellers tend to use
their auditory sense rather than spelling visually with a kinesthetic
check. I am an appauling speller and have to constantly spell check
anything i write.I totally agree that whenever i spell i do tend to
do it auditorily. In fact i cant visualize letters or numbers at all
(hence ive had the same pin number for 4 years and still forget it!)
>
> However what i dont understand about this is that i would think of
myself as a really visual person.I have no problem remembering faces
pictures or even manipulating 3D images in my head, also when i play
the piano i never need the music once ive learnt it since i memorize
the patterns visually, so why do i have such a problem with letters
and numbers?
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> I know that the book then warns against introspection.....but hey
the book also warns that it lies.......
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> A second question to anyone that might be able to help, sometimes i
wake up and cant remember which side is my left or right! For example
I'll pick up cuttlery the wrong way round and not notice, i'll smoke
with my left hand insted of my right, in dancing i'll turn better to
the left, when i'm naturally a right turner, my mind gets totally
fooled into thinking that my right side is my left! ( And before you
ask, it isnt drug related!) This normally lasts untill someone points
it out to me in the day or i go to write and i feel like somethings
wrong!
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> Does anyone else get this? Im really just intrigued as to why this
happens and wondered if any of the mind experts here can explain.
Perhaps i'm just confirming the fact that im as mad as a hatter to
everyone on this site!
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> na na (Poppy)
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> p.s i couldnt be bothered to spell check this, so i hope it makes
sense.
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