[etni] Re: Disregarding spelling errors!

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Sylvia Wasserman wrote:

> Can anyone help solve a problem with what disregarding spelling errors 
> for
> students really means?

Do you need a definition of a distinction between spelling vs grammar 
errors - or advice on what to do about it? If the former is the case, 
then...

> a)  if a student writes try and not tried,  is this spelling or 
> grammar? b) Is write and not wrote a spelling mistake or grammar?  
>
IMHO, both are grammar, not spelling: the pupils has correctly 
determined the word but has given the wrong form (inflection etc) - and 
this wrong form hasn't been misspelt.

If instead of WROTE he'd spell WORTE (a classic dyslexic-type error) - 
then it's spelling, irrespecitve of whether the grammatically correct 
word is WRITE or WROTE. If he has "ignore spelling errors" accommodation 
you'd still have to take points for incorrect grammar - but ignore the 
misspelt word. The same would hold true if the form WROTE were correct 
but the spelling WORTE weren't - you'd have to ignore the spelling and 
credit the correct grammar.

Best -

Lev

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