I can read and I can rite

Dominic acquired the ability to read words that he hasn't seen before. He doesn't know what those words mean of course, but he can pronounce them, if not correctly, then with an educated guess.

It has to do with the way they teach reading at his school.  It seems they are taught to remember how various letter combinations sound like, so that when he sees those letter combinations, he knows how to sound them out.

This approach works for reading, but not for writing.

We asked him to write a few sentences and we were aghast to discover that he also writes words by sounding them out.  Thus, 'castle' gets written down as 'cassel' or 'cassle'.  Even words that he has known for years get written down phonetically: 'becos' (because), 'hause' (house), there (their), clowd (cloud), etc.

We will have to fix this.

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