There is a very common view about English spelling and you might even believe this yourself:

English spelling is crazy!?

There's 44 different sounds, but there's 500 plus ways to spell those sounds. So how can we teach spelling in a way that makes sense?

It is true that we don't always represent those 44 sounds in the same way. We don't have enough letters in English, so we have to combine some of those letters together to make these sounds. But we also, haven't been very consistent keeping the s...