Just interested how phonics works with spelling. Sounding out when you look at a word works well, but ds struggles when writing as he's just putting down whatever sound he hears, so for "might" he wrote "mite" which is understandable as both versions use an "ie" sound. How do they learn the right spellings?
Also I was surprised that he could sight read "beautiful" but was totally unable to spell it - he tried "beeyootiful" - and he was really taken aback when I spelt it for him, as he was obviously thinking about the sounds and not how it looked when he last read it.