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Jacqueline Wilson: ‘Spelling is not something that seems to be taught at schools’

May 7, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

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The best-selling author, who receives hundreds of fan letters each week, told The Independent that children from Eastern Europe, Spain and Portugal all had better spelling and grammar than British children.

“They’re writing in English, and apologising for their English, yet these letters will be more grammatical and spelt more properly than [those from] our own children. It’s quite extraordinary.” Around 90 per cent of children who write to her cannot even spell Jacqueline correctly, she said, adding that standards had slipped in the two decades that children had regularly written to her.

via Jacqueline Wilson: ‘Spelling is not something that seems to be taught at schools’ – Education News – Education – The Independent.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Education Tagged With: author, children, education, independent, Jacqueline Wilson, letters, schools, spelling

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