My dd has not from the word go enjoyed phonics, she naturally prefers to sight read and her reading has progressed no end for the last six months, as she has built a sight vocabulary. She found it laborious sounding out each letter when she was younger, and it would spoil the flow of the story and then she would become increasingly frustrated and/or bored. Thankfully we past that stage now, but we have another problem...
However, I am really worried about her spelling. The children do not appear to have been taught 'sight' words very well at all, as a consequence my dd simply randomly sounds out every word phonically with little real accuracy. I am very concerned that she is never going to be able to spell properly like this and her written work is compromised severely...does anyone else have this problem? Should I be worried? And how can I help? I printed the sight word sheet, but she gets bored so quickly...maybe there are more interesting ways to learn, part of me thinks the school should be doing this anyway!!
How well are they expected to spell in yr 2...?? Would love to know the average ability. DD is okay with the obvious, she he, with, the, and, etc but the minute we move on to where, what, there and longer words etc it all tends to fall apart.
Any advice would be gladly received.
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yr 2 Phonics and terrible spelling...your views please
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Heartofgold25 · 26/05/2015 12:12
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