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Orton Gillingham Coaching: Activities for Teaching the Sounds of -ed

https://youtu.be/GZtxhRSzojQ Teaching the Sounds of the Suffix -ed Most people know the sound -ed is a suffix, but unless a person has been taught or thought about it, many may not realize that -ed says three sounds: /ed/ (as in the name Ed), /d/ and in loved, and /t/ as in kissed. Drill Cards in Two Places The...

I’m Seeing Double – 1-1-1 Doubling Rule Explained

Continuing with Suffix Rules, the first one I will go in depth on is the 1-1-1 Doubling Rule. The grade level this rule corresponds with is 2nd through 12th. Before teaching this rule, one should know: What a suffix is That some suffixes begin with vowels and some with consonants The difference between one and two syllable words. The...

Illustrations of Suffix Rules, An Overview

Continuing with Suffixes, today I will create an overview of suffix rules. The three suffix rules are: 1-1-1 Doubling Rule, E Drop Rule and the Y-Changing Rule. I will do an overview today, but go in depth in my next posts. 1-1-1 Doubling rule is: 1 syllable words ending in 1 consonant after 1 vowel,...

The Ending Gives It Meaning – Suffixes

The English language uses affixes to root words to give new meaning by adding prefixes to the beginning and suffixes to the end of a word. It’s efficient – we don’t have to learn new words to get a new word, we just add something to the beginning or the end of a word...

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

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...

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

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...

Suffix Rules

Orton Gillingham Coaching: Activities for Teaching the Sounds of -ed

I’m Seeing Double – 1-1-1 Doubling Rule Explained

Illustrations of Suffix Rules, An Overview

The Ending Gives It Meaning – Suffixes

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

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

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