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[quote=Anonymous]I have been dealing with this recently with my 9 year old son. The breakthrough for us was when he changed schools in January. He was at a school which gave 20 spelling words a week, words which were very similar so their there they're hospital hospitable etc It caused a lot of confusion because getting them spelled correctly was almost entirely about context. He is now at a school where the spelling words are mixed and he has 2 weeks to learn them Thermos yearbook thirsty etc - no confusion in terms of similarities between the words. And we work on them EVERY day. He writes them out each morning. By the end of the 2nd week he knows them enough to breeze stress free through the quiz. And during those two weeks these words appear in his work, spelled correctly. [/quote]
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