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With the development of the education, more and more parents hold the opinion that schools no longer focus on word spelling. As a basic writing skill, I want to say no school have taught in has ever overlooked spelling or considered it unimportant. However, opinions vary from person to person regarding how to teach it, or how much priority it should be given over general linguistic education and writing ability. The problem seems to be how to encourage children so that they can express themselves freely and have confidence in writing instead of preventing them from progress with the complexities of spelling.
If a teacher is only interested in word spelling, a bright child will be most likely to "play safe". He will attempt to write down the only words that he knows clearly and avoids adventurous new ones. That’s why teachers often encourage the early use of dictionaries and attach great importance to content rather than technical ability.
I was once shocked when I read the remarks on the bottom of a piece of writing concerning an impressive personal experience, "This work is surprisingly awful! There are too many spelling errors." It may have been a sharp criticism of the child’s writing abilities, but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had ignored the content of essay, which involved child’s deep feelings. The teacher was of course right to pay much attention to the spelling errors, but if he had concentrated on the child’s ideas, an expression of his disappointment would have given the child more motivation to be better.

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