Ax or Ask

After watching the video on this subject I was very impressed with the approach this teacher took because in all of my years going to school I had never heard of a teacher giving a lesson on how to speak correctly. Children learn how to speak from an early age but if they learn the incorrect way to speak then that will be the way they will begin writing. I think that children use the English language as a primary source in order for them to begin writing and if children are not taught the proper way to speak then they will begin writing incorrectly. In my experience as a substitute teacher I have read many passages and stories that children have written and most of the times that I have read these stories they have been written the way the students speak. It is true that on many occasions teachers do not take the time to teach children the proper way of speaking but if one teacher does not take the initiative then nobody will. I think that children should even be corrected by their parents at home because parents are the first teachers that they will have. In conclusion, I think that if we as future teachers take the time to correct our children on the way they speak then we will see significant results on writing and speaking skills.