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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Not everything has have a learning disability. There’s nothing that she wrote to suggest dyslexia. [/quote]

She said he had "no idea how to spell." That may be an exaggeration on her end, but terrible spelling was my son's only sign. He was reading above average in 2nd grade. He learned the sight words because of his intelligence and carried on with confidence as a young reader.  (In addition, my DS couldn't remember anything he "learned" under the "Words their way" lessons after the quiz on Friday. There was absolutely no retention.)[/quote]

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