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!

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