I'm sure this topic has come up many times before, so please forgive the duplication.
My daughter has just finished Year 3 and her poor spelling makes her writing difficult to read. She misses out vowels, puts letters or syllables in the wrong order, writes simple words correctly and then incorrectly or writes a word the way it sounds to her which has no bearing on how it is actually supposed to be written. None of her teachers have mentioned her spelling as a cause for concern. Her teacher was thrilled that her writing (content) developed in a huge leap taking her up several increments of level in a short space of time. So, she?s now considered a very competent writer. But it seems meaningless if her spelling (and often handwriting) are so poor that what she writes is difficult for the reader to decipher.
She reads well, though was late to read and I suspect she never learnt through using phonics but eventually got it through learning enough words by sight.
It?s getting to the stage where my younger child, who just finished Reception and has always seemed more receptive to phonics, is catching up and going to overtake her older sister.
Is her spelling likely to be picked up as an issue by her teachers going on up through the last three years of primary school or ought I start helping her with this at home? And if it is the latter, what?s the best way for me to help her?