WRITING: Making Writing and Reading Work Together

Should there be some kind of a system to start O off on his spellings?  The plan is just to go with the flow as he's quite young and , in my opinion , his cognition will only take him so far, seeing that logic is totally missing in a large chunk of English spelling.

One thing does seem to make sense is to write the words with particular letter combination , included in the week's reading book.  It used to be too much for O, but now a lot of it would work, I think .  We tried it a couple  of times, and it seemed to make sense to him.

I guess we'll just start on the spelling game by mere repetition of common words and patterns when reading and writing , and hopefully most of them will slowly sink in over time.

Oliver likes doing these lists of 10/ 20 words , much more than doing a story, though much less than doing a spinning plate! ( Short list if when we do 2 haf-subjects instead of 1 full one.)  He also really enjoys counting down the numbers , and ticking things off.  I'd say it's a bit of OCD on his part, but then again,  I'm  a Pinterest junkie and with all its 10 best blah blah racking up a storm with P's audience all over the place, it's must be a very common kind.   Maybe liking to have a simple clear structure is fundamentally built into even the sloppiest of us, after all?