Wise Mumsnetters, help please!
What can I do about Dds (10) terrible spellings.
She seems to avoid using vowels, and just doesn't seem to 'get it'.
She learns them well enough getting 19/20 in her tests, but by the next week they are gone out of her head and she's back to writing like she's 3.
She has no concept of phonics at all, and learned how to sound out her letters in another language.
What's going on in her head now do you think?
Fwiw she had sight problems diagnosed two years ago and has glasses, and she's been reading well since then.
But she will never willingly pick up a book and read it, though we read to her, and make her read to us every night.
What can I do to help her understand how words are spelled, and to have her remember.
Phonics make little or no sense to me, I've bought her books over the summer and went through them with her, but it didn't stick. My DH is a speed reader and never did phonics, only sight words, and he skims books (with retention) in minutes.
Any games you recommend- Scrabble ends in tears.
Do you think computer programming would help?
Any cross body specialists out there? Do you think there is a left / right brain miss match?
TIA