This article is aimed at orthographical mistakes that are frequently made by pupils in the fifth grade. It also discusses the topic of orthography and the theory of mistake in general. The paper also presents developments in approaches to the concept of mistake, as well as approaches to mistakes in the classroom and to orthographical mistake. An empirical study was conducted that showed that pupils’ most frequent mistakes are of syntactical nature (punctuation). Other domains in which pupils make mistakes frequently include: distinguishing i and y in word roots, the orthography of prefixes, and distinguishing i and y in noun endings. The appendix presents classroom tasks that are designed to practice the discussed phenomena.
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