:Spelling Corrections
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Approach:  One to one Level: Year 8
Focus:  Identifying and correcting spelling errors.
Resources: Computer programme on laptop computer.
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Questions/instructions:
This activity is done on the computer.
[uses same text as previous task, Spelling]
You will see a piece of writing that has a number of spelling mistakes.Your task is to try to correct all of the spelling mistakes you can find.
I want you to do this on your own, including working out how to use the computer.
You can start now.
Click the Spelling Corrections button.
Apart from general encouragement to “try things out”, do not give the student any help with operating the computer word processor.

% responses
2002 '98
y8

canot › cannot, can not, can’t
79 (71)
bruther › brother
93 (93)
desided › decided
62 (60)
close › clothes
69 (62)
through › threw
42 (42)
favourit › favourite
65 (69)
dissappeared › disappeared
38 (44)
usualy › usually
44 (44)
keept › kept
62 (67)
corse › course
54 (44)
latter › later
62 (61)
evrything › everything
77 (72)
Changed words already spelt correctly: 
none
83 (87)
1
14 (9)
2–4
3 (4)
Total score:
23–26
25 (26)
19–22
23 (23)
15–18
20 (19)
11–14
14 (12)
7–10
10 (12)
0–6
8 (8)

Commentary:
The results for this task are almost identical overall to those for the previous task, Spelling. Again, there was no difference between the 1998 and 2002 results. Making the corrections on a computer, which included a limited spelling checker, proved neither superior nor inferior to making the corrections on paper.
 
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