DC is nearly 8, average or slightly better than average reader, but an appalling speller. Last year school gave 10 spellings per week to learn and DC got 9s amd 10s every week after we practised lots BUT what we didn't realise was this was all going into short term memory each week and there is NO retention. End of year report said need to work on spellings. So we did over the summer. Pretty much every day. But had to work on the same 20 or so words, as took ages to learn each one. And we are talking basic words like there, their, better, please, people, (basically anything not phonetic).
Am awaiting a call from school. But what on earth can I do? I don't know whether it is an 'attitude to work/attention' problem (tends not to want to work at anything to difficult), an ability problem (but is fine in most other areas) or a specific issue like dyslexia.
HELP!
Should add this is becoming a real issue as DC now does not want to write long pieces of work as they know that the spellings will get picked to pieces, and also they find it tricky to concentrate on spellings at the same time as imaginative writing.
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Sellotapewillfixit · 07/09/2016 15:38
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