It is printed each time student work containing temporary phonetic spelling is published as a way of helping parents and community members understand the way young children learn. Young children learn to write much as they learned to talk. In the primary grades, writing is approached in much the same way.
Teachers accept children's approximations of spellings.
Just as parents are proud of a child's every attempt to say words, teachers praise young writers' efforts at writing. As words of high frequency appear in a child's writing, teachers model correct spelling, and children gradually incorporate conventional or standard spelling into their writing. A translation of the primary student's writing, made as the child reads his work aloud, is included when the writing is published. Click on a thumbnail to view the student's work.