MaizieD
GrannySomerset
Don’t they teach “c the noun and s the verb” anymore? So easy to remember!
TBH, I think that the teaching of spelling has been so bad over the past few decades that even teachers don't know the difference.
You've got me thinking, Maizie.
As a parent & grandparent, I see little difference in my children and grandchildren's learning 10 spellings, 30 years apart. But learning ten spellings out of context doesn't address the problems raised here. I wasn't a secondary English teacher, but I assume these things are learned through reading - here are the words in context.
Certainly in my final school before retirement, all teachers played a part with encouraging reading, not least with the DEAR (drop everything and read) initiative.