Teach the child to visualize the words which he studies each day in his
spelling lesson. You may not be able to visualize them yourself, but if
you have started early in training him, he will have little difficulty
in doing so. Exaggeration should be used as an aid in spelling. It will
be easier to see the words printed in letters from three to six feet
high on the wall of the room, than to see them in pica type on the
paper. If your child has difficulty in visualizing the words in the
spelling lesson have him exaggerate and color them in his mind's eye
picture.
Have the child take a piece of scratch paper and colored crayons and
print the difficult words in large letters, using two colors, one for
consonants and the other for vowels. If the child has difficulty in
learning the sequence of "ie" and "ei" have him follow the plan of
using two strong colors, such as red and blue for the two vowels. Have
him print all the words with which he has difficulty, using red for
the "e" and blue for the "i." This color impression combined with the
enlarged letter, will overcome the difficulty.