Good at reading but poor at spelling

[zac's mum]

kaisuparents:

My DD, currently in P1 is good at reading, can read independently but very bad at spelling. She tends to write simple words incorrectly. E.g: bird => brid, dirty => drity, stripes => strips

Is her issue with phonics, is she unable to break the word into syllables and spell it.
Can anyone suggest any good iOS apps to make her practise spelling and phonics.
Thanks in Advance

Is anyone reading the words aloud to her?

I’m asking this because for the examples you gave, the word that she writes has completely different pronunciation from the one that is tested. She could be simply memorizing the visual look of the word. Unfortunately some letters get mixed up.

If someone points out to her that “bird” is spelled with BIR first (BIR sound), not “bri” (BREE sound), does she understand?

[kaisuparents]

We read story books loudly to her, she also reads loudly. She doesn’t do silent reading.

Do you suggest we split the words into syllables and read to her?

[zac's mum]

(I’m sure she does silent reading in school. That seems to be compulsory, especially when the teachers need the kids to be quiet while waiting)


But yes, do try to break down the word when you are reading aloud to her. Also get her to check her work during spelling. Eg she has written “brid” but once she reads it out, she should realize that it’s not bird.

[Estéema]

kaisuparents:

My DD, currently in P1 is good at reading, can read independently but very bad at spelling. She tends to write simple words incorrectly. E.g: bird => brid, dirty => drity, stripes => strips

Is her issue with phonics, is she unable to break the word into syllables and spell it.
Can anyone suggest any good iOS apps to make her practise spelling and phonics.
Thanks in Advance

For a young child, reading regularly to her is key to helping them to recognize & learn words.

Guiding them phonics is also impt to help them with reading & ustand the pronunciation of different words in the English genere

When translating reading into writing/spelling, one of my classmates taught me using sandpaper to help kids spell their alphabets right with tactile feel. She ran a childcare-cum-kindergarten then when we were both taking our Masters in Edn.

Ano area u might want to keep aware is for your child to be tested to see if they got any learning issues stumbling them. My DH hv mild dyslexia but went thro edn (not without bumps) all the way completing uni. So naturally, during our masters programme, our lecturers highlight the need for early diagnosis & early intervention. It's impt so that young kids can be supported with diff learning techniques & catch up soon enuf with their peers. If they get to learn or correct their learning early enuf, they'll not grow up with erroneous learning stuck thro life. Not impossible, but more professional help to correct.

I was concern and even up till P4, I see my DC frequently committing very basic & simple spelling errors. I kicked myself for not applying what I learnt early enuf due to health issues.

Thankfully, my effort to catch up reading & writing (refreshing his earlier learning of phonics, teaching him phonemics) he improved in his spelling.

kaisuparents,
Your DD can read back correctly to u does sound like she may not hv big issues. Probably just need mummy to read to her & she shld do well.

To be honest, till DC P6, I kept having regrets & guilt feeling if I shld hv done early diagnosis & my DV cld hv done better. So, decide if u want to leave doubts in yr mind or u hv the confidence, since u know yr child well, and u can work thro with yr DD to overcome that hurdle.

[sky minecrafter]

Hi, dc2 is like your dd; we'd even discuss with teachers (is it dyslexia? etc... Nope...). We later realise that audio-visual learning works better, & of course lots of patience from people around. Read the word as the child writes. Parse each word (explain idiosyncrasies of the EL language whenever the chance arises). Practise makes perfect, but keep it in small steps so as not to wear the child out. Things will normalise if you keep at it.

[sharonkhoo]

kaisuparents:

My DD, currently in P1 is good at reading, can read independently but very bad at spelling. She tends to write simple words incorrectly. E.g: bird => brid, dirty => drity, stripes => strips

Is her issue with phonics, is she unable to break the word into syllables and spell it.
Can anyone suggest any good iOS apps to make her practise spelling and phonics.
Thanks in Advance

She's probably a \"whole word\" reader, and recognises words by overall \"shape\" rather than individual letters. I would guess she hasn't done much phonics, or doesn't really like phonics. She's just like I was, and my older girl too. For reading, whole word reading is great for familiar words, and for speed; for unfamiliar words, and for spelling, phonics is better. Just spend time with her going through letter sounds, blends, vowel digraphs etc, and get her to read the words \"out loud\" in her head to check after she writes. I don't know about apps (my daughter is 21!); we used the Ladybird phonics books. Anything like that would be fine.

[zac's mum]

Just to satisfy my curiosity & test out my theory about visual learners (my DH is one):


Do u find that “whole word readers” aka visual learners, are usually much better in Chinese tingxie than English spelling?

[sharonkhoo]

zac's mum:

Just to satisfy my curiosity & test out my theory about visual learners (my DH is one):


Do u find that “whole word readers” aka visual learners, are usually much better in Chinese tingxie than English spelling?

No! But I guess motivation is important too? My daughter and I are both visual learners, but very unmotivated when learning Chinese. My other daughter, who is more of a aural learner and didn't learn to read until she learned phonics, was always much better at ting xie.

[FantasyLandDreams]

Just yesterday a friend sought my help on P1 spelling as her son has been borderline pass too and scenario as described above.


If a child cannot relate to phonics methods despite phonics lesson for two years, and sight word method does not help much too ( my friend uses sight word method at home), is there any other method to teach P1 spelling? Anyone can share?

Child has went for diagnosis at NUH and confirmed he is not dyslexia and not ADHD but more of cannot focus and will day dream and look at what his friends are doing kind.

The child’s tingxie is ok though.