Oh, well...I'm not concerned, per se. That is, I assume he'll be fine, at this point. If he is still spelling like that at 7, I'll be worried. But he has very little experience writing or spelling words. Interestingly, after just a few more episodes of practicing writing, he has started asking me "How do you spell..." much more often. I believe the schools often discourage this, preferring the children to rely on their own spelling concepts, but my DD could never cope with this ("Just tell me how to spell it!!") and DS seems to be moving in this direction. I don't see a problem with this habit myself as long as the child is producing written work easily, which he is.