Spelling in Context
📋 What it is
Proofreading catches misspellings a spell-checker misses — especially real words used wrongly.
🗣️ Coach says
A spell-checker will not flag “I ate a peace of cake” — “peace” is a real word, just the wrong one. As proofreader you read for MEANING. BOLT trusts the spell-checker too much — catch the real-word slips.
🧠 Memory hook
Read for meaning, not just red squiggles. Right spelling, wrong word still = an error.
😂 Giggle
Why did "their," "there," and "they're" go to counseling?
They kept getting confused about who belonged where!
😲 Whoa!
Spell-checkers were one of the first "AI helpers" — and they still cannot tell "their" from "there".
🖍️ Grade BOLT-3000's spelling-in-context.
You're the teacher — mark BOLT-3000's work, then reveal how you did. (Grading a robot: all the skill, none of the sting.)
BOLT wrote: “The knight road his horse.”
✗ Needs a fix — “road” should be “rode” (past tense of ride): “The knight RODE his horse.”
A spell-checker misses "road" — a real word used incorrectly; read for meaning.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Find a real-word spelling slip in a sentence you write on purpose, then fix it.