What funny stories can you tell us of when a student of yours slightly misspelled a word in some kind of writing assignment, causing their assignment to sound much more hilarious than it would have been if that word was spelled right?
To exorcise is a misspelling of exercise, but they are both spelled right. For example, did any child write on their writing assignment that they "exorcise together" with their pet and their mommy at the park? How did you react to that unintentionally correct misspelling? If your students' writing assignments are shared with other students, how did the other students react?
How do you get your students to cope with misspellings that are different words that are correctly spelled, but the meanings have changed? (Union vs. Onion, time vs. Thyme, manager vs. Manger, etc.?) After all, Microsoft Word or otherwise your favorite word processing software won't make a red squiggly line under THOSE words...
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