Responding to a message by Dan, to Charles on ...
DT>CB>Okay, color me dumb, but how can the kids edit their spelling when 
DT>CB>they're not taught how to spell?
DT>
DT>It's the teachable moment.  A child can be taught to use the dictionary. 
I forget sometimes that you use an approach to whole language that 
is inconsistent with my image of the process.  The concept of 
inventive spelling that *I'm* working with does not include spelling 
instruction - yet you *do* teach some spelling.  I know that you 
don't use a spelling book, but at the Kindergarten level that is 
probably appropriate.
Chuck Beams
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cbeams@future.dreamscape.com
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