PHONETIC SPELLING

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 2

PHONETIC SPELLING

CHILDREN’S COMPOSITIONS. At the Stratford primary school the younger children are asked to write compositions, which sometimes involves the) use of words the spelling of which they have not yet been taught. The object is to develop in the children the ability to write clown their thoughts, and accurate spelling is not insisted on. The result is that some extremely quaint spelling is produced; but at the same time the ability to embody ideas in words is ,steadilyi developed, and the Headmaster, Mr L. J. Furrie, reports that when the work of the young pupils is followed’ closely it is highly interesting to note the progress made. Below are given two such compositions, by two members of one household each of whom has chosen the same domestic event as the subject to bo recorded. No. I reads as follows:—Alf made an old hen out of a stocking and we haf fif chikins left three are lame and too are orlite. there run is made out of an old boes with and old pecs of wia on top of it. wen ho wos makinit too ran in to it. wen thay went to bod she put a pees of paper Over them so they could not specc

No II (reads: Won of oulittlo chics just did wen it came out and sum uthirs did not wen thao just came out and wee haf onlee got fif little chics lef nouw and slice put them in a box and put a pees of wlr notin on the box and in the mornin she put them in the sun and thao wos hapee as hapee could bee.