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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 2nd grader final hit her stride with reading last year.  She now is a voracious reader.  She reads, reads, reads, reads, and reads.  She loves reading!

But her spelling is abominable!  I just don't understand how one could be a good reader, but a poor speller?  She still leans on sounding words out, but doesn't supplement that from words in her memory bank that she should know by now.  For example, just yesterday, she tried to spell "bubbles" as "bubls."  WHAT?  What is going on here?  
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My son is the same way, though I'd say his spelling is worse than your daughter's. I would be happy with that rendering of bubbles. It's a good Phonetic approximation. He would have no problem reading bubbles for sure. Like your daughter, his reading really took off in first (though I wouldn't say finally. I think that is a fine time dor reading to take off.) He wants to read read read. But he hates writing. I wrote to his teacher about it. He was tested in K for some fine motor strength and behavior issues, which are now way better. But because of that I know he has a low porcesdjng speed. So I imagine that could've elated. He gets cry frustrated about not knowing what to write. Does this happen to he other poor spellers on the thread?[/quote]

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