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Speech Pathology in OG


  • June 2, 2020 June 2, 2020 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels 0 Comment
Speech pathology is important in creating sounds, and this is important in Orton Gillingham because the method relies on teaching in a three-prong approach – auditory, kinesthetic and visual. For a learner with no speech issues, I think the most taught is that there is such a thing a voiced and unvoiced. Let them put...

More Facts – Vowel Facts


  • October 19, 2018 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels 1 Comment
Facts About Vowels All single vowels have more than one sound: they all make a long sound, a short sound and a schwa sound. For example: baby = “?,” apple = “?,” bandage = “?” Short vowels are indicated with a breve – ? 60% of English words have short vowel sounds A vowel followed by a consonant...

It’s a Fact — Consonants


  • September 2, 2018 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels 12 Comments
Today, I want to give you a few facts about consonants. 21 Consonants are: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, zConsonants never say their name (except in words like x-ray).Most consonants have one sound.Five consonants have more than one sound: c,...

Phonemic Awareness: Speaking of Individuality


  • April 21, 2014 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels 3 Comments
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...

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...

Get Mixed, Blends & Digraphs


  • July 8, 2013 January 24, 2021 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels 5 Comments
In my last post of the VCCCV syllable division pattern, or Ostrich words, I talked about blends and digraphs, and I said I would make my next post on these concepts so that Ostrich words will make more sense. That was three Mondays ago – I was out of town in Florida visiting my...

We Sailed and Jumped into a Twisted -ED (the suffix)


  • April 23, 2013 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels, Suffix Rules 10 Comments
Hearing letter sounds is a major key to learning to write and understand English. It can be confusing because many letters or letter combinations have more than one sound. Today I will go over one of the combinations – the suffix –ed. The suffix –ed is used to represent past tense; plenty of even smaller children may...

Say, “Wuh”? Pronouncing Sounds


  • April 8, 2013 November 23, 2019 By admin
  • Consonants & Vowels 2 Comments
There are times when pronouncing a consonant letter, people will say it like this: For “m” someone might say, “muh” or “d,” “duh.” Actually, m says, “mmmm” and d says “d” (clipped, no uh on it). The sounds of letters are the smallest unit of sound in the English language. They are called phonemes (pronounced: ph?-n?ms). This is...
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