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Is the student in question familiar with morphemes, word roots, prefixes, suffixes and the physical construction of words in English and their Latin or Greek antecedents? If not, you might begin with the linguistic rudiments. Once a child becomes aware that "tion" "ate" "ing" "ism" "ous" and cetera actually convey meaning to the root word(s), the ability to muster the proper spelling - or to divine the meaning - becomes much less challenging. A child who's aware of the origin "ago / agere" and its relationship to "act," already knows the words "action, actionable, active, activity, actor, actual, actualism, actuarial, actuary, actuate, actuation, actuator, agency, agenda, agent, agile, agility, agitate" and "agitation," prefixially, and "allegation, allege, coagulate, coagulation, fumigate, fumigation, fustigate, intransigent, levigate, litigate, navigate, navigation, navigator, objurgate, reaction, reactivation, reactivate, reactive, reactiveness, reactivity, reactor, redaction, retroactive, variegate" and "variegation," suffixially. Comprehension of linguistic relationships kan maeck speling reely eazy.