LOL! Of Coivze!

What evil virus? I'm glad you have been freed!

p.s.- you have also uncovered my coded point that the study is a little sketchy in that I suspect they carefully chose the nonsense letters in between the correct first and last. If you just randomly throw in letters it's easy to not understand the word, no matter how smart you are!


However, couldn't outsmart you!

Context helps, too, I think. If you get on the right path with it, you have a much easier time with it. But anything surprising or unexpected would mess you up, I think.

ugh - the evil Antivirus XP 2008 virus. Be warned, everyone. It is truly evil. I'm not sure how we got it, because we have 3 users, and one of them is 4 years old... But this virus pretends to be things that are totally legitimate and then eats away at all sorts of processes. i'm not techy enough to know what the deal is, but don't click on any popups you aren't 100% sure are related to your antivirus software. It starts out telling you that viruses have been found, and you should run the program to delete them. Don't press any buttons on this, even "close" or "no thanks" or "remind me later" - all tricks. You must close using the x in the upper right corner or alt-F4. That's the reason for my new avatar - i spend over 220 minutes on the phone, on hold or getting help to get rid of this virus.

I'm not sure if I'm still proofing DS9's review of Ender's Game or the spelling thread at the moment... !

LOL!

I'm sorry.. ........

But your post is too funny! LOL! Glad you can have a sense of humor about it! Thanks for the warning.

Oh Dottie, we crossposted. props: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry for the non-spelling related rant! (but, you did ask neato!)
Back to topic (sort of ) - my DS4 can read very well, but has absolutely no interest in learning how to spell. I don't care about this really, but i guess i'm curious if people teach their kids spelling at the same time as reading, or do you handle it all separately?

Well DD8 just picked it up from reading. I haven't thought about it for DD6. It wouldn't be my favorite thing to do with them, though. Maybe I should consider it for DD6, but I'm kind of waiting to see if it's necessary.

My DS5 learned to read without any phonics at age 4. He started with sight words and now whenever he comes across a new word he asks me what it is and then never stumbles again. IMO, he is not a good speller. I really don't have a lot to compare him to though. He did get a SS of 123 on the WJ-III (94%) at age 5 years 1 month. I am very curious to see how he does in spelling when he actually gets to attend school.

I have never been a good speller but I am a super fast reader and read a lot as a child. I LOVE me some spell check.

I have enjoyed reading all the mixed up words/sentences in this thread. I guess I now know that I misspell on this board, I better make sure at least the first and last letter are correct and no one will mind.