Writing phonetically helps learning to read - time for truespel

Yes, Leecy, Pumarosa is very useful to teach English spellling along with grammar and pronunciation, etc. Years ago I wrote a text about learning to spell which might be of use to some teachers. Here is an excerpt, if anyone would like the whole text just email me at pumarosa21@yahoo.com.

By the way, if anyone should ask for my bonafides in writing this, in 1958 I won the 8th grade spelling bee in Ms. Preble's English class at Lincoln Jr. High School in Melrose, Mass!!!!

LEARNING TO SPELL IN ENGLISH
by Paul Rogers, 2005
     Good writing in English should begin with good spelling. Although advances in technology have given us "Spell Check", it is my opinion that learning to spell well is an important “ingredient”  to a "command" of the English language. 
      However, learning to spell correctly is difficult even for native English speakers. English words are too often not spelled the way in which they are pronounced, primarily due to the fact that English is a mixture of other languages, such as German, French, Spanish, and … who knows?
     One key factor is that learning to spell depends upon good pronunciation:  
     "The most effective way to improve spelling is to improve pronunciation?"
(Reference Manual For The Office, by Clifford R. House and Kathie Sigler, 1989, Southwest Publishing Company,
Cincinnati, Ohio) 
     For EFL/ESL students, difficulties in pronunciation are compounded by the fact that it is frustrating to learn how to reproduce certain English sounds which do not exist in their native languages. And this problem, in turn, leads to an inability to hear and understand many words when spoken out loud. 
     To “solve” all of the above complications, I have developed a phonetic system to learn English as a Foreign language, and include a variety of lessons and exercises to help students “master” English as easily as possible. My material is bilingual, Spanish/English, but can be used by other students as well.
(from SPELLING, at the bottom of https://www.inglesconprofepablo.com/la-gramatica-ingles---indice)

A. "The Long and Short of It"
     Review of the vowels - a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. 
    English vowels are divided into two sounds:
long and short. 
     1. Long = A vowel is said to be long when the
sound made is longer than the sound made for ...short
vowels! Plus the sound is made along the bridge of the
nose. Long a, e, i, and o are pronounced exactly like
their names; long u is pronounced like the u in tube,
and long y is pronounced like the word eye.
     2. Short = A vowel is said to be short when it is
pronounced using less air than long vowels, with the
sound located low in the throat (in the "Adam's
apple"). The short a has three sounds, whereas the
other vowels only have one specific short sound.

     Note: When the vowel E is at the end of a word or
follows an E, the sound is changed from short to long.

           PRACTICE 
LONG A  = "ei" 
all "ay" words:
bay (bei) - bahia
day (dei) - día
play (plei) - jugar o tocar
say (sei) - decir
way (wei) - metodo, via

cape - bare - fare - plane

SHORT A = 3 SOUNDS - 
     1. Like the letter a in the word "cachucha" -
bar - barra
car - carro
far - lejos

     2. "ae" -
cap (caep) - cachucha
bad (baed) - malo
cat (caet) - gato
man (maen) - hombre
     
3. Like the "o" in "octubre"
     all (awl)
     ball (bawl)
     call (cawl)
     fall (fawl)
     hall (jawl)
     tall (tawl)
     wall (iuawl)

LONG E =  "i"

etc....