Great at reading but struggling with spelling

[flowerfly]

My ds(8) is good at reading but really struggling with spelling and handwriting anyone else had any experience of this. He can learn spellings (14 weekly) and get them all right in a test but when it comes to writing sentences etc. the spelling goes to pot "When" becomes "wen"," Need" becomes" Ned" the school are looking into it but does anyone else have any suggestions?

I would add dyslexia to that list of 3. My DD has similar problems and we now know that she is dyslexic. She's doing reasonably well at school overall but is really bad at spelling. She also passes the 10 word spelling tests but when writing, even basic words are misspelt. She has got better recently due to her reading more and practising using online tests such as www.primaryspellingonline.co.uk/