Hello,
DH & I have had a little tiff about this today so I'm hoping you'll say I'm right :o
DS (6) often has to write short sentences in his homework book. We help him by giving him ideas of what to write and I like to leave him to write it himself. If he doesn't know how to spell a word I tell him to sound it out and spell how he thinks it would be whereas DH will tell him he's spelt it wrong & spell the words out for him.
I'm not sure which way the teachers would agree with but feel that DS has to work things out for himself. He is very bright, an excellent reader & more often than not if the spelling is incorrect he has still spelt it in a way that you can work out how he came to it.
What do you do?
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Tell DC how to spell or let him work it out
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Blacksquirrel · 12/10/2011 16:42
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