How should I respond when my child asks me how to spell a word?This really depends on the situation, the time you have and whether it is reasonable to expect your child, at their current level of ability, to be able to spell the word themselves. From a student’s point of view when a piece of work has been handed in, that is the end of it, other than hoping the teacher will have written something positive at the bottom when they get it back. ![]() Should the teacher correct all my child’s spelling mistakes?I don’t think so. This helps to explain why they may spell a word correctly on one page and incorrectly on another or spell the word in a number of different ways in a single piece of writing.For some children, achieving automaticity takes a lot of intensive practice. ![]() ![]() You can see this particularly among students who get the words right if they are presented in the order in which they were learned but get confused if the order is changed.Students with this kind of memory difficulty reinvent words whose spelling is not stored in their automatic memory bank. ![]() Why does my child spell the words correctly for their spelling test on Friday and forget them by Monday?Students who can learn for a test but do not retain the spelling of the words in their written language have not reached a stage where they have automatic recall of the spelling of the words. A comprehensive, multisensory approach to learning how to spell irregular words has been included below.
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