Year 1 Spelling and Phonics

[Royaldada]

In your experience is a good speller somebody who is also good in phonics

Reason I ask is because DD regularly gets 10/10 in her spelling tests spelling words like because, afterwards and thought quite comfortably however when it comes to phonics it seemed that she had trouble with blending and decoding words when it came to preparing for her screening test

Trapped, my ds has kind of photographic memory too. That plus knowledge of phonics made him a great speller. He can spell the words he has seen, but also able to spell the words he has never seen before, after looking at it once and segmenting words. He doesn't bring spelling list home either, yet get 10/10 every time.