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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I usually come to this forum for my older child, but I’m worried about my 8 year old’s “creative” spelling with all sorts of weird vowel combinations and missing letters. There’s no other way to put it: it’s just really bad.

It was this way in K, but we didn’t worry. Last year was online and this year there is maybe very slight marginal improvement but not much. Teacher is good and working on writing and spelling a lot—the whole class is behind basically—but should I get him tested?
There is dyslexia on my husband’s side but he doesnt have it.

Any other resources/practice  you’d recommend? [/quote]

My 9YO is NT and can’t spell.  Words like “money,” “house,” etc.  He still spells -tion as “shun” more than half the time.  He was in Catholic last year and aced every spelling test, so I don’t think he is behind standards but I would expect a third grader to be able to spell simple two syllable words.  He reads at about a sixth grade level, so the juxtaposition is jarring.

If you have an instinct that something is off, testing can’t hurt.   But they don’t teach phonics anymore, and so this is what happens to all kids.  [/quote]

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