Spellchecker

Spellcheckers are meant to be used along side with electronics and forming words to express content. In today's time, you can find spellcheckers on your word processing systems, Internet browsers, even products such as tablets and cellular phones have some variation of a spellchecker. Being an Apple product owner, I love having the opportunity to choice from a variety of words to help correct my errors. Unfortunately, the corrections may not fit what I am trying to relay. "In ordinary use, a spellchecker is called upon to check whole passages of text, in which the misspellings will occur in context" (Mitton, 2008).

The acronym which was given with this week's reading (CHECK) was a very efficient piece to add in the classroom setting. This could be charted and of course taught to scholars over and over as to how this could benefit their reading and writing. I would see this best in an elementary school setting where phonics and phonological awareness are stressed or in an ESOL setting to help ensure proper spelling. My personal stance on spellcheckers is simple: They are always going to be around in all elements of technology. In my current classroom, my students are barely writing 6 sentences and putting them on the computer to publish a piece of writing is a long way away. I would definitely incorporate this CHECK strategy in my classroom. It helps students cover all the possibilities of how to spell the word before they reach out their hand for my help.

Reference

Mitton, R. (2008). Ordering the suggestions of a spellchecker without using context. National Language Engineering, 15, 173-192.