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I used to fail in dictations at primary schools. I learned a method to help my daughters. Spelling of Crocodile by Louisa at primary 2 (7 years old)

I helped my daughter (primary 2) to spell crocodile- she can use phonic to remember cro, co but her phonic cannot help her to remember dile. We create a story on DILE- DILE are the tools to hunt the crocodile. D is the BOW and I is the arrow, L (small letter is "l") is the spear; E is the fork. My daughter's 3 senses are activated (auditory, visual, kinesthetics) and she can now spell the 9 letter long word. Whenever your kids are tired of remembering long string of letters on spelling. Creating a Story is a good alternate method. You can try to create story to help kids to asscociate with spellings by including Visual i(mage), Auditory (sound), Kinesthetics (touch) senses. Kids oftenly enjoy story. Dictation becomes a funny activity.