Edward Fry’s top 100 list of high frequency sight words. Teach students that one of the reasons that there is such a difficult spelling is because it is a sight word, often called an outlaw word. The word does not follow spelling rules. The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, provides the following definitions (with my own formatting, revision, and additions): Follow this lesson plan, and I guarantee that your students will make fewer there, their, and they’re errors. I suggest teaching word relationships in the context of meaning and usage, spelling rules, and writing application. Additionally, we fail to help students place the learning into their long term memories. My take is that students fail to master proper usage and spelling of tricky word relationships because our instruction lacks conceptual depth. So, how can we teach and help students remember the proper usage and spelling of the troublesome there, their, and they’re words? However, we have no excuses for failing to proofread something that will be published (or tweeted, Mr. Now, to be fair… most of us have misused a there, their, and they’re word at one time or another. If not, there blood, sweat and tears was a waist of time. “Looks to me like the Bernie people will fight. The reaction to President Trump’s mistake in his Jtweet was speedy and judgmental: Indeed, linguists tend to classify the misuse of there, their, and they’re as high stake grammatical errors. The Copyblogger site includes these three words in the article, “ Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb.” Students (and even presidents) have problems using the there, their, and they’re words appropriately and spelling them correctly. Anything worth teaching is worth teaching well.
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