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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP some dyslexia tutors are trained to teach spelling.  Try reading these articles to help you with what to look for in a tutor, workbook or program.

How Spelling Supports Reading: And Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think (Louisa Moats) https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Moats.pdf

How Words Cast Their Spell:  Spelling Is an Integral Part of Learning the Language, Not a Matter of Memorization (R. Malatesha Joshi, Rebecca Treiman, Suzanne Carreker, and Louisa Moats)
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/joshi.pdf

A New Model for Teaching High-Frequency Words (Linda Farrell, Michael Hunter, Tina Osenga)
https://www.readingrockets.org/article/new-model-teaching-high-frequency-words

List of Spelling Rules (Suzanne Career): 
https://www.pattan.net/getmedia/43bd2c5f-3155-4ead-8774-20c78aeca474/05.Reliable_Spelling_Patterns[/quote]

My first thought was also dyslexia. My son, now a senior in HS, is dyslexic. He was a horrendous speller in 2nd grade. His teacher didn't care. "Some kids just take longer." DCUM suggested to me that he had dyslexia, which I thought was nuts because he was a good reader (since he knew all the sight words). However, after I started reading about signs of dyslexia, I had him tested and he did indeed have moderate dyslexia.

Our elem school used "Words Their Way", which was a true disaster for our son.

He saw a tutor trained in one of the Orton-Gillingham methods. She was fabulous. It wasn't a quick fix, but he learned strategies on spelling that he still uses today. Her system was The Barton Program.

I think All About Spelling is also O-G. I would stick with it, but you must start in level 1.

Also - someone asked "He can read fine, so why does it matter?" The answer in my son's case: In grades K-2, students are learning to read. In 3rd grade, students begin reading to learn. IF (and this is a big IF) a student cannot sound out words, he/she will begin to struggle and fall behind.  This was the case for my son. He could read (but not spell) all the sight words and all the phonics-based words he had "learned" (memorized) in K-1. If you gave him a word he had never seen before, he was not capable of sounding it out due to dyslexia. 
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