LDExperience » Blog Archive » FAQs from Parents: Is Spelling Still Important for My (Struggling) Child? by Sylvia Hannah » LDExperience - Helping people affected by learning disabilities share their experiences..
A powerful way to make words easier to spell is to divide them into two categories: sounding words and sight words.
Sounding Words
These are words that can be figured out by making each sound in the word, in a clear and correctly sequenced way, and printing what you hear.Sight Words
These are words that aren’t “fair”. They don’t look like they sound or sound like they look, or they use alternate spellings, e.g. “ai”, “oa”, “ph”, etc.
