Bumps in the Road: “Textese”: A Literacy Teacher’s Nightmare or Benjamin Franklin’s Dream Come True?
Wanda B. Hedrick

The quandary of many teachers and parents about the increasing use of “textese” has not left this educator and mother of five untouched. On the contrary, she is in the thick of it. Here, she describes her own use of textese and her reflections on what, if anything, it means for standard spelling and students’ education.

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