Does reading improve your spelling?
Do you know?

No, it doesn't

Reading’s very important but it won’t improve your spelling.

Different skills are involved. Spelling is much more difficult than reading.

According to David Crystal: Teachers assume that reading, once taught, automatically means that spelling will be ‘caught’. But there is no correlation between reading ability and spelling ability. (David Crystal: The English Language)

Spelling won’t happen because we read. A word must be consciously and deliberately learnt.

Spelling uses a set of active, productive, conscious processes that are not required for reading. (David Crystal: The English Language)

We don’t read to learn spelling, we read for information or entertainment etc. We skim over the words when we read whereas spelling is an active letter-by-letter activity.

Spelling is a visuo-motor skill. This means that visual and physical skills are crucial. You must see the patterns of English and feel the writing of them. Learning to visualize the whole word can also improve spelling.

Reading a word is easy but try to spell it and there could be a number of ways to spell it, like in homophones: buy/bye/by, you/you're, its/it's, there/their/there, stationary/stationery

Look at the following words. They have the same long vowel sound 'e' + s but have 7 possible spellings: breeze, knees, these, fleas, seize/sees/seas, cheese, tease/teas.

Easy to read not so easy to spell!

TOP TIP number 1: Just because you’ve seen a word, read it, and copied it down once, doesn’t mean you'll be able to spell it.

You must work at and study spelling, notice the features of words. Pay attention to how words are made up – the letter patterns, root words, prefixes, suffixes, rules.

Work at and study spelling.

I guess it does

It does help me.


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Yes, reading sure do help me. I get to see new words, spell them and their usage.

I loved it. I want to express my admiration of your writing skill and ability to make readers read from the beginning to the end. I would like to read newer posts and to share my thoughts with you. Thanks for posting it, again!
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It does, forget Oyibo and their theories, These phone dictionaries abi auto correct kills your knowledge of spelling faster than you can imagine. Because while typing and you want to use long words you will be almost dependent on them

Yes o

hmmm

Improves even your english speaking and writing.

Yes it does

That's if you are reading to understand

When i was growing up reading James Hardly chase , i did so with my dictionary and a jotter



I just don't like to form, otherwise, Patrick would be learning english from me

For reals ...

d guy abv me tho...
u can lie 4 Africa...


it does except u r frm Ibadan...

Of course it doesn't. When you read, you see words as a whole so you don't bother looking at the letters. Writing improves spellings though.

Yes it does.

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Yes it does. It also improves your range of lexical resource.
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Its good to Read... Whether it improves spelling or not (according to your article)

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It sure does oo .. Take it or leave it

Yes it does. Especially reading fiction books.
Also writing the unknown words and the meaning in a book or a sheet of paper

it does

No it doesn't.

Help you learn new words? Yes

Help you remember spellings of old words you know but have prolly forgotten? Maybe.

But to learn how to spell? NO!


You have to LEARN how to spell; Consciously and conscientiously.

I've always had issues with spelling.
Despite being a lawyer.

golddust6000:
*BREAKING_NEWS* They are now in # lagos state oooo! This happened in someone's Estate this Morning in ipaja. A lady called an Aboki as we all call them, a shoe maker to help fix her slippers. She allowed him stay in their compound, while she went back inside to continue with what she was doing. When he was fixing her slippers, he added something under before stitching it back. Luckily for the Lady, her landlord was at the balcony watching the ABOKI without his knowledge. When he was through, he called her to tell her that he has finished. She came out, he told her to try it on her leg to make sure it was OK. Her landlord shouted from upstairs 'no oh, don't put your leg in that slippers I'm coming. He came downstairs; forced the Aboki to put his leg in the slippers, the Aboki refused. Then he alerted neighbours. So,they all gathered, forced him to wear the slippers. Immediately he put his leg in the slippers, Guess what happened?? Hmmmmmmmmmm !!!!! The slippers cut... He did not sew it well.

The kinda things that humour kids though, smh. And he wants us to laugh to this

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Frenchfriez:

The kinda things that humour kids though, smh. And he wants us to laugh to this

I wonder who's giving them more room to operate.

The dumb ones I mean

You can't take one rule and apply it across board. That's a fallacy. Reading helped me discover new words, increase my english register, word recognition and spelling aptitude.
To separate the word learning process from reading is to say you want to soak garri without water. E no mean say you get sugar with milk and groundnut, na d water go consummate the soaking. That's what reading is to learning to spell.