Catelin did the Spelling assessor yesterday and really stopped to think about how she was going to spell the words rather than just putting down any old letter. When she got to the word ‘brought’ she discussed with me which letters she would need to use to create the correct sound. She tried all the letter combinations, and discarded the letter when she decided it would be the wrong sound.
Such a huge change. Prior to Easyread she would have stuck to the first vowel sound and not experimented with the next one until getting it correct. And she certainly wouldn’t have got the tricky ‘ght’ bit!
– M