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7. The right to learn how to proofread
Today's teachers who build editing into the writing process are doing far more to develop students capable of dealing with spelling in real-life settings than were the traditionalists who marked every invented spelling but never really taught children how to proofread. (This, of course, is the fallacy that papers not corrected by the teacher are the moral equivalent of broken windows in the school.) Proofreading to a 100% accuracy level is extremely difficult, as the presence of typos and other mistakes in even the best-edited published books exemplifies. To be a good proofreader of your own writing, you need to do a good job of both finding your invented spellings and figuring out the correct spelling. What could be a more important role for the teacher than helping students to get better at both of these?
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