Research has shown that bilateral coordination exercises (physical exercises that cross the midline of the body) have a large effect on reading skills. It’s kind of strange but learning to move the body in certain ways dramatically improves reading skills.
These exercises cause neurogenesis (new brain cells) and neuroplasticity (new brain cell connections). Allowing areas of the brain to be strengthened.
This is the foundation of the Learning Success System. Exercise the areas of the brain that need exercise and use BCE’s to help them grow. BCE’s are like push ups for the brain.
Just adding more spelling practice generally won’t do the trick. There’s a difference in the brain that won’t let that spelling practice help. If it hasn’t helped yet it likely won’t ever help. Unless you fire up those visual centers of the brain.
Poor spelling is one of the most common symptoms of dyslexia. Dyslexics are typically using different centers of the brain for language tasks. They haven’t accessed the other parts. That can be changed. We are not stuck with the brain we were born with. We can change it with a little work.
It’s not uncommon for spelling to “just click”. For a person to go years and years as a bad speller. Then the right part of the brain fires up and everything just falls into place. Just like kids when learning to read make that leap. It’s not a gradual thing. It’s a quantum leap.