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It is logical.  \nIt is learnable .  \nIt is critical to both reading and writing processes .  \nBut the most important thing about the spelling system of English is that it makes sense .  \nIn whatever capacity they work with students, educators whose responsibility it is to facilitate the acquisition of literacy and language —classroom teachers, speech and language specialists, special education teachers, administrators —may benefit from an awareness of this reconceptualization of spelling and its implications for learning.  \nAt some time in our lives most of us have probably found ourselves muttering something like, \"Why don't we just spell words the way they sound?\" In a variety of ways, students —adults as well as children —ask us this question as well. At first glance, it does seem to make sense to establish a more consistent symbol-sound relationship. For example, instead of the spellings in the left-hand column, we could have those on the right:  \n\n| define | dufin |\n| --- | --- |\n| definition | defunIshun |\n\ncourage  \nkeruj  \n\n| courageous | kuraijus |\n| --- | --- |\n| compete | kumpeet |\n| competition | komputIshun |\n| punish | punnIsh |\n| punitive | pewnutIv |\n\nThe spelling-meaning connection  \nIn an interesting historical twist of fate, however, the English spelling system has developed in such a way that words that are related in meaning are often related in spelling as well, despite changes in sound —the spelling-meaning connection , I call it. Thus define/definition share the common spelling defin-and compete/competition share the common spelling compet- , despite differences in the pronunciation of those common letters . If we opted for letter-sound simplicity, we would lose the visual similarity among such words.  \nThe fact that words similar in meaning tend to be spelled similarly is also an advantage when we encounter unfamiliar words in print, which in turn can support our vocabulary development. In fact, for most students beginning in the late intermediate grades, spelling and vocabulary can become two sides of the same instructional coin. Students can begin to explore this relationship when teachers help them understand why crumb is spelled with a b at the end (it is related to crumble , in which the b is pronounced) and why sign is spelled with a g (it is related to signal , in which the g is pronounced). Why isn't the short \"e\" sound in pleasant just spelled with an e? Because it is related to pleasing. For students who write compisition for composition and prohabition for prohibition, point out the related words compose and prohibit , talk about how they are related in meaning to composition and prohibition , and note that, because of this, their pronunciation can be a clue to remembering how to spell composition and prohibition .  \nOnce students are aware of and understand how the spelling-meaning connection works in known words, we can reinforce spelling while expanding vocabulary in the following way: The student who spells mental as mentle may be shown the unfamiliar word mentality. Because the stress shifts to the second syllable in mentality (menTALity), the sound and its spelling now become clear. Importantly, however, the student has also learned a new word —mentality —because he's learned that words related in spelling are often related in meaning. 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