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habits. When children encounter new information about standard spelling,
they readily modify their hypotheses and have no difficulty adopting
standard spelling. Ultimately, the expert speller is able to use
information from visual memory, as well as knowledge of phonetic,
contextual, and meaning relationships to determine the correct spelling
of a word. But the process takes time. Important foundations of learning
to spell are set with the use of invented spelling.
Will reply to the rest of the message in another posting.
                        Ruth
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