This month I have read and commented on various students' blogs. While the students, grade level, and subject matter are all different there is one striking similarity between them: none of the students are using proper grammar in their posts. While this is understandable in lower grades the question remains, are they really learning how to properly write? Many elementary teachers say that blogging helps students to learn to write and be creative. How can this be if the students aren't writing properly? I have not seen any comments from anyone, even the teacher, correcting spelling, punctuation, or grammar. I feel that these issues should be addressed so students can learn from their mistakes in order to properly write in the future.
While younger students will inevitably make mistakes, older students should have better writing. Today I read a post by a 7th grader. In his most recent post, he shared a picture he drew of his favorite book's cover. He also wrote a few sentences about it. Unfortunately, he did not capitalize the beginning of each sentence. This is fairly basic grammar that a 7th grader should understand.
While I feel like this is a major issue with his post, I did not want to comment on it. It is not a guest's place to correct grammar, but should he go on not realizing? This is a issue for me. You want to be polite when visiting someone else's page, but you should still be truthful and helpful.
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