I also am a terrible speller, but for different reasons. Way back in 1st grade when we were supposed to be learning to spell, I rebelled against the system. English spelling does not make sense! There's a set of nominal rules, then there's a set of alternate rules, then the exceptions to the standard set of rules and the exceptions to the alternate set, arrrrgh! Why can't they all be spelled with one set of rules???? I was much to logical for a 7 year old. I refused to learn for awhile and decided it just did not matter. I'm slowly getting over that attitude. :) www.dictionary.com is my friend too.
Contrary to what you've said, I've read in a number of places that reading is not about interpreting letters to words to meaning. Most people pattern recognize the word directly map it to the meaning. I'm that way. I can tell if a word is miss spelled in writing but still struggle with writing it our myself correctly. I should did up a pointer to an article that talks about it.
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Date: 2005-02-22 01:13 am (UTC)Contrary to what you've said, I've read in a number of places that reading is not about interpreting letters to words to meaning. Most people pattern recognize the word directly map it to the meaning. I'm that way. I can tell if a word is miss spelled in writing but still struggle with writing it our myself correctly. I should did up a pointer to an article that talks about it.