My DS is a great reader (one of the highest boys in his class), but not that good at spelling. He is still writing words down phonetically and whilst he receives spelling homework each week (which consists 3 words per week, chosen specifically for each child by the teacher, using examples of the child's work for that week and picking words they've repeatedly spelled incorrectly in their work), he's still not improving at his spelling.
Does anyone have any great ideas about how to help a yr2 child with their spelling? Books / online games / etc etc? I was always under the impression that reading would massively help spelling (i'm sure that's how I became such a spelling nut!), but it doesn't seem to be helping my son and he reads A LOT! Teacher not worried at all, but I wanted to improve things as he is beginning to say he hates doing literacy work because he writes loads but gets marked down because teacher picks up on all his spelling mistakes.
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Best methods for teaching spellings (yr2)
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MumbleJumbles · 06/03/2014 10:23
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