Originally Posted by ultramarina
Okay. His writing is more legible than many of those samples. It helps to see how they spell. I guess my DD was just completely in another category here--she never made any of these wild guesses. DS seems to be much more age-typical in his spelling ability. I just find it confusing--how can he read as well as he does and not know how to spell "like"? Brains are weird!

Just taking a wild guess here ... but I'd say he's spelling this way because he's used to reading phonetically? As opposed to if he was a sight reader, he'd know how to spell the word because he'd have the whole word memorized? Like I said. Just guessing here.