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Text messaging as a classroom tool seems as foreign to me as the next person. But according to a study conducted in 2008, the monthly volume of text message usage volume is over 75 billion. Teens are said to use text messaging communication more than they use voice or face to face communication by 54 %.  it just makes sense to try and  implement this tool into the classroom. Students are very aware of the different ways to utilize this particular tool and it allows for a particular interest. It only makes sens eto try and implement text messaging into the classroom.

According to the article, Text Messaging: Basically Addictive or Essentially Additive?

• Text composers must break words down into syllables, and understand  that words are a stream of compressed distinct language sounds.
• Composers of a text message must identify graphemes which represent phonemes, isolate the individual phonemes, deconstruct words into individual phonemes, and. construct a word from a string of single phonemes.
• Text message users must be familiar with the acceptable phoneme-grapheme mappings in written English, and must differentiate the sequence of the discrete language sounds or phonemes in a word.

Although text messaging may not seem like a practical outlet for literacy, teachers need to find different ways to engage their students in their assignments. This can have incredible benefits with the right parameters in place.