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Reply to "How can an outstanding reader/writer be such an atrocious speller? And how to help?"
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[quote=Anonymous]My mother and sister are both phonetic spellers, my uncle had dyslexia. None of the three of them could spell. Spelling tests were always a matter of memorizing the word then letting it go immediately. On the other hand, my father, brother and I didn't need to study for spelling tests, and very rarely had any spelling mistakes when writing. Sometimes it has nothing to do with how hard the the student works. On the other hand, I'm a tutor and nanny. I've worked with several kids who needed to to taught certain rules (when to double the final consonant before adding a suffix, when to change y to an i when adding a suffix), and they all benefited from games involving the introduced rule. Spelling correctly (for them) was a matter of remembering the rule later, so a certain amount of practice was necessary.[/quote]
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