Vocab.
Last week we did our reading on vocabulary and how important it was. While reflecting on this topic, I realized that as I child I had a lot of problems with vocabulary. My problem was that I was a very visual person. When people spoke to me I would visualize the words I was hearing to make sense of them. However, this led to problems with the different forms of words. If something was said to me orally then I wasn’t always able to figure out how to spell it. In my mind there was a disconnect between the oral and print forms. For example, I have a friend named Cedise. I know this is an uncommon name, but nevertheless it is a name. So when someone was telling me about the Cedise Sky High, I wondered if this highway was named after my friend. A few years later I saw a sign that read Sea to Sky highway. All of a sudden it clicked, for years I had been writing the Cedise Sky Highway because most people pronounce it the same as Sea to Sky highway. (most people pronounce it sea-dis-ky). As a result I realized that it would be very useful to not only speak new words but to also show how they are spelt!