funny, I almost showed that little article thing to my DS4 to see if he could do it. I am pretty sure he could...but in the end decided to show it to DH instead (who was thankfully able to read it easily). Interesting about spelling changing. My DS4 can spell great, but lately he has been asking how to spell things that he knows, then I will say "what do you think?" and then he will spell it right. Not sure why he started second guessing himself. He is even good about always remembering silent letters and all sorts of stuff in words I would have know idea he would know.