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[quote=Anonymous]I was always a phenomenal reader but a poor speller.  It's gotten better with time, but only because I learned to focus more on the words I was spelling incorrectly.  I still have issues with certain letter combinations and vowels, but I've mostly solved the problem as an adult.

FWIW, I think my spelling issues had something to do with the way I took in the words as I read as a child.  I always read VERY quickly -- probably more whole-word from the start.  Thinking back, my eyes skimmed over the words fast enough to understand them and to retain the concepts (and even to read them aloud when we were doing that) but not long enough to imprint the spelling in my memory.  For me, reading for spelling required a different type of "seeing" than reading for content.  And I never wanted to slow down enough to do it.

In addition, I have always had a poor memory for details out of context.  So memorizing spelling (and rote foreign language vocabulary) was always more challenging that I expected.  It's just not the way my memory works.  Unless I could attach spelling to something conceptual, it went in one ear and out the other.

Meanwhile, my DD is completely different.  She's also a very fast, whole-word reader.  But her memory works quite differently.  She picks up all the details and retains them. I'm in awe sometimes.  She can look at a list of spelling words and will just KNOW and RETAIN them after that.  Lucky her![/quote]

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