When did spelling 'click' for your DC?

[Atlas88a]

DS is 7. He can memorise his spellings but forgets about a third and his written spelling isn't great (spells 'light' as 'lite' or 'parcel' as 'passel').

When did spelling click for your DC? I've tried to explain that he really needs to try and remember them and notice how words are spelt and that they just don't need to make sense phonetically.

It didn't! I just wish we'd got her dyslexia diagnosis earlier. Her reading was fine so I thought it couldn't be that - turns out I was wrong!

Ditto. It didn't. He probably still can't spell light correctly half the time.

I don't know about DC but for me it was in third year secondary (year 9) when for the first time I had an "old fashioned" English teacher who actually taught me the rules.

I'm not daft, I got an A for English in the end, Once I'd been told how it all made sense, but no one told me. I don't know how they teach it these days

A lot older than 7. Maybe nearer 11 for my son and probably 9 for my daughter. By which I mean their spelling improved a LOT.

in my view it’s largely connected to reading. Once they’ve got a LOT of books under their belts, it improved a lot and they had to do that independently.

of course it varies hugely per child but I wouldn’t be too worried just yet.

Still hasn't. She's 9 and dyslexic.

Memorising is a tool to manage her particular type of dyslexia

My daughter is younger but is very good at spelling. Learning and reinforcing phonics seems to have helped a lot. We have a card game called "blah blah blah" from Mrs Wordsmith which helped her learn digraphs and trigraphs like "igh" and which words use that spelling. Also a lot of reading.

Dunno. Some kids/people never get all that good at spelling. My DS is 11 years old and in general vv academic, always averaging c140 in CAT-type testing, but it was my birthday a couple of weeks ago, he wrote a card wishing me a '...verry happy birthday'. By no means a crazy spelling at all [e.g. rhyming with 'merry' or 'berry', but 'very' is such a common exception word]. He'll never be good at spelling.

My DD is 7 (summer born, Y3) and still can’t spell well. Spells most words phonetically!
School doesn’t set spellings/hold spelling tests which doesn’t help!