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Phonemic Awareness: Speaking of Individuality
What’s the importance of phonemic awareness and what exactly does that mean? First, phonics and phonemic awareness is not the same thing. Phonics is the understanding of the relationship of letters and sounds in WRITTEN language. Phonemic awareness is understanding the sounds of language working together in SPOKEN language to make words.
According to the...
Go to the End and Count Back Three, if You See Consonant + LE
The syllable pattern in REVLOC is is a departure from the Vowel-Consontant-Vowel patterns. This one is Consonant+LE. It is the L in REVLOC.
If you have not read the post on REVLOC, please read it and come back.
When you have a word with a Consonant+LE at the end, count back three letters, then divide the...
Breaking the Rules: Wild Old Words
Spelling Is Easier with Generalization Rules: OI/OY, OU/OW, AU/AW
In keeping with the past two posts on spelling consonant sounds and spelling vowel sounds, I am going to cover oi/oy, ou/ow, au/aw generalizations; when to use each to make their sounds. I mentioned these generalizations in my last post in a “Miscellaneous” category. Here I am going more in depth on when to...
Spelling Vowel Sounds: What Music They Make
How to Spell a Consonant Sound
Often in spelling and writing the letters and their pronunciations are considered, but what I had never experienced until working with Orton Gillingham is how to spell a letter sound. This post is on how to spell consonant sounds. Next week, I will cover spelling vowel sounds.
There are letters that make sounds, d says...
Short Vowel Rule Overview: FLOSS, Pitch, Judge, Stack
My most recent posts covered the Short Vowel Rules in Orton Gillingham. Today I would like to give an overview of all four of these rules. I will also provide a practice worksheet and a quiz on these rules.
Now that you have seen all four rules, grouping them together as “Short Vowel Rules” should...