Spelling Facilitates Good Reading Comprehension - Gail August. 2011.Gail August's article, titled "Spelling Facilitates Good ESL Reading Comprehension" from the Journal of Developmental Education, addresses a positive link between spelling accuracy of words in a text and reading comprehension of that text. In fact the correlation between the two is stronger than the correlation between spelling accuracy of vocabulary and quizzes about the meaning of those vocabulary words.