"How do you spell that word?"

Elena has recently been asking us to write words down, asking us how they are spelled. In particular, she does this whenever she can tell that she is mispronouncing the word. For example, for a long time, she has pronounced "communion" as "minion." Recently, when I tried to correct her by getting her to repeat it after me, she asked me, "How do you spell it? Write it down." I wrote it down. She looked at it, pronounced it correctly, and hasn't turned back with the pronounciation. I don't think that she's really able to read the whole word, but she can see that it starts with a /c/ sound, and that's what she needed. She's also using this to better pronounce the word "spaghetti."