Literacy News from Tengrrl.com
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
"Study: TMOT, Texting Can Help Reading Skills" (School Library Journal, 03/01/09)
The finding sounds 2G2BT, but British researchers say text messaging doesn’t harm literacy. In fact, those who regularly text have better reading skills, despite their frequent use of phonetic spellings, abbreviations, and omission of vowels.
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