Spelling lessons for updating
PA Wellington Spelling lessons in primary schools will be updated. The system of “level testing” under the alphabetical spelling list book, which has been in New Zealand schools for 22 years, will be phased out and a new spell-write programme will take its place. Words such as computer, television, skateboard, nuclear, laser, barbecue, jeans, and supermarket will become part of spelling homework. Out-of-date words, no longer common in a child’s vocabulary, such as mistress, oatmeal, starch, acre, embroidery, and telegraph, have been deleted.
The Council for Educational Research has been developing the new style for four years, and its first copies of the book are being published this week. The senior research officer, Mr Cedric Croft, has said that most of the 700 new words introduced to the school textbook were related to communication and technology. “Spell-write takes into account written language of New Zealand children in schools today,” he said. The new approach to spelling in schools would be to view it as a part of writing rather than a subject on its own.
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Press, 11 February 1983, Page 7
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