Much schooling practice is obsessed with words that students can not spell (and with spellings that the industry cannot explain and consequently treats as ‘tricky’ or ‘exceptions); real spellers learn from words whose spelling we already know.
We understand that analysing and justifying spellings that we already know extends and consolidates orthographic understanding.
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