become a better speller

If I’m going to be a teacher I really have to improve. My greatest fear is sending the kids home spelling something the wrong way. A lot of the time it’s my own doubt. I’ll ask someone how to spell a word and realize that I was going to spell it correctly.

I think I have made a little progress on this. Typing a lot helps because there are some words I don’t know how to spell, and then I check them or the computer shows that it is misspelled. (Like it just did for misspelled, lol!) Also, I would like to broaden my vocabulary. I have been doing this a little by subscribing to get the dictionary e-mails where I get a word a day and the definition.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and yhou can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.

This is one of my goals, so I can write without worrying that I have made a mistake – I even got my other half to write this!! :)