Year 3 - incorrect spellings in homework not corrected

[sidsgranny]

Ds is coming to the end of year 3. He's had weekly homework and looking back over his homework books for the year it's just hit me that although his teachers comments have generally been positive, she's not once corrected anything he's spelt incorrectly. I've been told by a friend with older Dc that spellings are not corrected now. Surely that can't be right?!

It depends on the focus of the task.
If the focus is spelling then I'd expect corrections but otherwise not so much.
Maybe just one or two for them to correct and practise.
That's what we do in our school anyway and I think that's fairly usual.

I would correct them myself. I would expect the teacher to do it though. My DDs teachers did because it is important. If you cannot spell you run the risk of looking an idiot later in life and, at worst, be rejected from jobs. I know this is a doom scenario, but I think expectations should be high and if your DS does not know the correct spelling, how will he improve? Spelling is not an isolated topic, it is cross curricular!

I do understand what you're saying and it true to a point.
The trouble is you can end up with a piece of work that's covered in nothing but corrections. That's considered to be quite demoralising for a child.
Also, do they have time for them to do anything with these corrections. There is no point in doing a load of corrections that a child then never has a chance to practice or change. You end up questioning who you are marking for.
Anything more than two or three spelling corrections in one piece of work is not a good use of anyone's time. In my opinion.

Ours don't correct homework. They just put a little dot next to them rather than a tick. In school work books they tend to write words spelt incorrectly more than once at the end of a piece of work so the children then copy it out 5 times. It seems to work

Correcting every mistake which children make does not help them to become better spellers.

It's ok to do so for gifted spellers who make few mistakes.

For those with poor visual memories who take a very long time to learn all the 4,217 words with some irregular letters in them (e.g. any, many... once, only, other...blue, shoe, flew, through, too) too much correcting early on can put them off trying to write more than a line or two. Which is disastrous, because children learn to spell mainly by doing lots of writing and reading.

This problem would not exist if English had a proper spelling system. But it doesn't: mum - some; home - roam; on - gone - one - bone... Some children are able to cope with these insanities with relative ease, but quite a few (the ones who expect the system to make sense and hate brute rote-learning) find it very difficult.

So teachers have to make sensitive decisions about how many errors they should or should not correct for different children.