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Go to the End and Count Back Three, if You See Consonant + LE


  • March 27, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Syllable Division, Types of Syllables 11 Comments
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


  • March 17, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Sight Words, Spelling 8 Comments
I’ve written in the past about closed syllables and how if a syllable is “closed in” by consonants, then it will be a “closed syllable” and the vowel will be short. However, there are groups of words called Wild-Old Words that are “fossil” words left from Anglo Saxon times that do not follow the...

Spelling Is Easier with Generalization Rules: OI/OY, OU/OW, AU/AW


  • March 3, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels, Spelling 9 Comments
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


  • February 19, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels, Spelling 1 Comment
In my last post I talked about how to spell consonants. This week, we will cover how to spell vowels. It is important to note that when I say “spell” consonants and vowels I am talking about how letters can make more than one sound. For example, a makes a long and short sound, as...

How to Spell a Consonant Sound


  • February 3, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels, Spelling 8 Comments
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


  • January 27, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Short Vowel Rules 2 Comments
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...

Short Vowel Rule: “CH” Rule – An Important Batch of Words


  • January 21, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Short Vowel Rules 8 Comments
This week we will cover the last of the Short Vowel Rules in Orton Gillingham. So far, we have made it through FLOSS, “K” Rule, and the “J” Rule. The fourth and final short vowel rule is the “CH” Rule. The “CH” Rule says: -tch is used after one short vowel at the end of...

Short Vowel Rule: “J” Rule – Make a Pledge to Learn This Rule


  • January 13, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Short Vowel Rules 5 Comments
Following in the path of my post last week, today we cover the third of four Short Vowel Rules in Orton Gillingham. It is the “J” Rule. So far, we have covered FLOSS and the “K” Rule . The “J” rule says: -dge is used after one short vowel at the end of a one...

Short Vowel Rule: “K” Rule — The Pick for Learning when to use –CK


  • January 9, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Short Vowel Rules 7 Comments
In Orton Gillingham, basically the whole English language is divided up into categories and each category is divided into rules. I have given one “Short Vowel Rule,” known as the FLOSS rule. Today, I am moving to a second (of four) short vowel rules: the “K” Rule. The “K” rule says, -ck is used after...

More Syllable Division: The Long & Short of –ci, -si, -ti, -xi


  • December 4, 2013 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Suffix Rules, Syllable Division, Types of Syllables 3 Comments
Today, I received a great question from a reader. After my last post on syllable division, she asked me, “What do you say about the letter i in the following examples: div i sion in ci sion de li cious am bi tion ig ni tion???” I can understand the confusion, based on my...
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