The Spelling Debate

We live in a world where texting, tweeting and instant messenging or writing messages on a DS is a part of who you are as learners. Is spelling no longer important in 2013? If you think this way then you probably believe that spell check, invented spelling and other ways of communicating are more important than spelling a word exactly or the way the dictionary says .  OR…. If you think that spelling tests, the dictionary and correct spelling is as important to you today as it was 100 years ago then you believe that correct spelling is very important.

Please explain why you think this…back up your answer and “check for errors..ooops…did I say that?”

Here are two articles that may help you:

http://www.growingkids.co.uk/effect-text-messaging-spelling.html

or http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/12/spelling-is-it-important-to-do-it-properly.html

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23 Comments on The Spelling Debate

  1. souvik
    February 28, 2013 at 6:23 pm (11 years ago)

    Spelling is always important, this is because if you are writing a letter…Maybe. Then if you spell something wrong in the letter their might be misunderstanding so like if you write the word, write but you are trying to say “right”, so that can be a misunderstanding word. But if some people do not like spelling things there is the spell check!!!! So this piece of technology can help you out. The spell check is the main reason that humans have difficulties spelling when they write on paper with a pencil(since they are used to typing)so they do not care about the spelling when they are writing on paper so in the end I agree with Mr.Woods because it seems that spelling is not important as much as it was a century(100 years)ago. But I know that spelling is very important and I hope that the whole of Canada thinks so too!!

  2. yashvi
    February 28, 2013 at 8:21 pm (11 years ago)

    Is spelling imporant?
    To me yes it is, but in today `s world when you write on digital tegchnolgy if the word is spelled correct or incorrect doesn’t matter because with spell check in just a click the word is spelled right.”It’s just amazing”.But with all of this digital technolgy spell check ,it will make people lose the imporantance of spelling we are not that far with technolgy we still use paper and pencil also because one day you might have to write with a pencil cause your device stoped working suddenly.I say when people don’t use a pencil or paper spelling won’t be imporant.Spelling is important right now but I think it won’t be important in the future.Do you think spelling is important?
    -Yashvi

  3. viduni
    February 28, 2013 at 8:28 pm (11 years ago)

    Is spelling important? To me the answer to that is yes. If you only use spell check then you will never be able to actually spell. Another reason that I think spelling is important is that to be able to read you have to know how to spell without spell check. When you are trying to type something what if you miss spell it and you devise will think that it is a completely different word. If you were trying to spell to, you might type too by accident. Spelling also impacts on your writing as well. When you were typing, did spell check not recognize it and underlined it in red. To answer Mr.Woods’s queation I think spelling is important and grammar is intended.

  4. Kyla
    March 1, 2013 at 10:56 am (11 years ago)

    Spelling is important, because if you were writing a letter and you didn’t know how to spell stuff than how would you write it. Everyone needs to learn how to spell stuff. If you don’t know how to spell than the person you are sending the letter to, they won’t know what you are trying say to them. Spelling has always been important to lots of people. Thats why I think spelling is important.

  5. bavita
    March 1, 2013 at 11:00 am (11 years ago)

    writing is still important because if you are writing a message to someone and you it wrong they might not understand what your trying to say. e.g someone broke their bone and you were the mother and you had no phone you had to write a letter and you wrote something wrong they won’t understand what youe trying to say so they contiue on what they were doing then the person who wrote the letter went to the mothers house because she didn’t come and she was cry because the girl who broke the leg can’t be fixed and the mother said what happend and she everything to the the mopther and said you need to spell it doesn’t matter if the spelling “thing” is way pasted in the past you need to learn.

  6. anannya123
    March 1, 2013 at 11:10 am (11 years ago)

    spelling is important beacause we should know all the easy spelling when we get older. So we get a a better future. but the spellcheck is also great if we spell something wrong it will be underlined in red and we know it is wrong spelling. so we should know how to spell but the spell check fine as well -anannya

  7. tasmiah
    March 1, 2013 at 11:18 am (11 years ago)

    Spelling is important because it is a part of education.You need it to write letters and read.Reading and writing are a big part of life you will need it to get a job or get into a good collage.Writing is like art it is an amazing piece of technology

  8. superstephen
    March 2, 2013 at 8:12 am (11 years ago)

    Is spelling imporotent well I think yes because you know those scientist that build thing for the future they have to read every day to get it right and make such it dosen’t go wild and crazy! I think spelling is importent because when you try to play games on the computer and you and you go to instuctions and you don’t know how to read anymore you don’t know what to do so that is the reason why spelling is importent

  9. Aleem
    March 2, 2013 at 7:34 pm (11 years ago)

    I think spelling is important because when you are at school you have to write and if you can’t you will get a bad report card. But in the 21 centery you get to type things and then spell check and then you won’t learn and that’s the reason some people can’t read. Then when you get a job you might get fired because your boss might think you don’t have an education.

  10. batman26618
    March 3, 2013 at 10:53 am (11 years ago)

    Spelling is important because we need to learn how to read and write. So we need to teach people how spell because spelling is one of the main thing of life. If you want a good job you need learn to spell. So thats why I think spelling is important.

  11. kindreebrady
    March 3, 2013 at 4:16 pm (11 years ago)

    I think that correct spelling is important because if all the authors in the world spelled words wrong we may not enjoy their masterpieces.
    The importance of correct spelling depends on the situation. If you are texting a friend and spelled a couple of words wrong but they still understood… you’re good. If you are working on an assignment for school and you make a few spelling errors this would be the perfect time to ask for spelling help. Imagine twenty years from now…grownups who don’t know help to spell …AKWARD.

  12. Om
    March 3, 2013 at 4:39 pm (11 years ago)

    Spelling IS important because 100 years ago they didn’t have technology so if they wanted to talk to someone far away from them they would have to write them a letter and if they make a mistake then they will have to fix it because there was no spell correct 100 years ago and also there was no technology and if you didn’t know how to write then if you were a police men or women and you needed to give a person a speeding ticket then you couldn’t because you don’t know how to write and also you can’t just type it up on your electronic device and then print it out and then go pick it up at your house. today spelling is a little bit less important then it was before.

  13. Sonia
    March 3, 2013 at 5:23 pm (11 years ago)

    spellingis important to 2013 and other years because if we didn’t hane spelling it would be hard to write letters, tweet,text and write books. Some people think thjat spelling is imprtant and some don’t. I think spelling is important because if we did’nt how would we write books, letters,text messages, tweet. my point is that spelling important because if we did’nt have spelling we could not do all of thease things

  14. abmississauga
    March 3, 2013 at 10:02 pm (11 years ago)

    In my opinion spelling is important in 2013. I think this because spelling is a main part of education. We are getting more and more dependent on technology, we are losing writing abilities. If your device is broken you might need to write with paper and pencil. Most people rely on spell check if they are typing something but spell check can change the word you typed to other synonyms of that word. For these reasons I believe spelling is important in

  15. abmississauga
    March 3, 2013 at 10:03 pm (11 years ago)

    In my opinion spelling is important in 2013. I think this because spelling is a main part of education. We are getting more and more dependent on technology, we are losing writing abilities. If your device is broken you might need to write with paper and pencil. Most people rely on spell check if they are typing something but spell check can change the word you typed to other synonyms of that word. For these reasons I believe spelling is important in 2013

  16. Anika Azore
    March 3, 2013 at 10:13 pm (11 years ago)

    Is spelling important? In my opinion spelling is very important because you can’t always depend on technology. If someone is asking you how to spell a or write a word you would not know how to do it. Texting, phones,and tvs etc. may not always be around. If you spend to much time on these devices, you can get addicted to it and your eye sight will get worst. Take it from me thats why I have to wear glasses. The amount of time we spend watching tv and texting is way to much – we are also wasting energy. If you dont’t know how to spell how would you master reading? This is why spelling is much better then the devices we use today. By Anika:)

  17. kaileyfrost
    March 3, 2013 at 11:31 pm (11 years ago)

    Yes I think that spelling is important but it depends on where you are using spelling.If its while you are texting someone and spell check is on then I don’t think it is as important,where as if you are writing a book review to Mr.Woods then I think that you should be a little bit more worried about your spelling.But in the end yeah I don’t think spelling is that important than how important it used to be since technolgy has come into play.

  18. chrismyrox
    March 4, 2013 at 7:46 am (11 years ago)

    To me, spelling is important in 2013. Yes, there are programs that you make a spelling mistake and you can just click spell check and the wrong spelling will become right. But writing and spelling words was what the kids in pioneer times did. They never typed and had spell check. They had dictionaries and the teacher to tell them how to spell the word right. So we should still try and spell words properly and not wait for spell check to do it for us. Spell check prevents people from spelling words on the paper right, because people don’t get to practice and train there brain. They just type in the spelling they think is right and they wait for spell check to check the word. So I think that spelling is important in 2013.

  19. Amrita
    March 4, 2013 at 6:25 pm (11 years ago)

    Is spelling important? Yes, spelling is important in the year of 2013 and it was important in the past years and it surely should be important in the coming years. Technology is getting more and more popular in our days, people use “short form” instead of writing the whole word. It is fine to do short form in certain situations. If you are texting your friends you will probably use such words as “brb,ttyl” that is fine if both of you will understand what each of you are saying. If you are talking to your boss you wouldnt use such words like that since they probably wouldnt understand. What I am trying to say is that you can use short form in some particular situations and sometimes you should use words with grammar. Companies like Blackberry have made some sort of automatic word estimator. The automatic word estimator is when you start typing a word on BBM or anyother blackberry message app it will try and guess the word your about to type. If you havent completed the word you were about to type on your blackberry and you press the space bar it will automatically chooses a word. Spelling is still important in the year or 2013. – Amrita 😛

  20. myahussain
    March 4, 2013 at 7:03 pm (11 years ago)

    What I think if spelling is important? Of course spelling is important even if spell check or guessing check is there spelling is important you have to know how to spell do you think the person who invented the spell check didn’t know how to spell?! Of course not to make spell check you have to know how to spell. Ok spell check was invented to learn from your mistakes not to be a lazy bag and just sit there and say oh who cares spell check will correct it it might correct it now but what about when your older and get tests and don’t know how to spell you cannot say spell check will help me cause no he or it will totally not the only hinges that is there for you now is your own brain. Nothing can help you except you and your head . Spelling is important without spelling you won’t have alot back 1000000 years ago there was no spell check they relied on themselves look how important spelling is .If they used spelling. Centuries and years ago till now it is .very important we have used it for that long until now it must mean alot. In the end yes spelling is important.

  21. hafsa
    March 4, 2013 at 7:04 pm (11 years ago)

    I think that spelling is important in 2013 because it is also the main part of education if you have to write letter or a message and specially reading if you can’t read you would not know some intresting things facts and more about the world and reading and writing are the main part of your life too you can get better job or universty etc.so if we dont know spellings so we can read ,write and understands anything.

  22. farahhabibi
    March 6, 2013 at 10:00 am (11 years ago)

    I think spelling is important because in the future you would need to know alot of spelling to get a good job or a high mark in collage or any other part of education. When I grow up I would never let go of spelling because you need it to succed in everything. You would need it to write a letter,post on the internet or anything. Farah.h 🙂

  23. jenniferfan
    March 6, 2013 at 4:04 pm (11 years ago)

    Spelling is important because if you were writting to a person who did’nt know how to read incorrect spelling, like LOL,BFF,they would have no idea what that means. Also, if you were to write a paragraph for a test, and you used incorrect spelling, you would get a bad mark.
    So spelling is important.

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