Is it -OUS or -US? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
The more students know the more complicated spelling becomes. They begin to need to take into consideration not only sound and symbol correspondence, but the…
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Tips for Teaching -S and -ES Plurals
One of the very first suffixes that I teach students is the suffix -s. This suffix makes a word plural. Teaching -s and -es builds…
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Voiced and Unvoiced S: 7 Teaching Tips!
It is important to teach the voiced sound of S fairly early in the instructional sequence. Students will need the voiced S to add the…
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7 Tips For Helping Students Recognize Patterns In Words
There are several reasons why recognizing patterns in words is difficult for our students with dyslexia. Dyslexia often causes difficulty linking the phonemic analysis with…
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Tips for Teaching the Y Rule
The suffixing rules represent a challenging but important set of spelling generalizations. They allowed students to write a wide variety of sentences using the full…
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Tips for Teaching the Drop E Rule
A particularly challenging, but important, set of spelling generalizations are the suffixing rules. They are important for students to be able to write using more…
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Is it -GE or -DGE? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
GE or DGE? Your student knows more than they think! Whether to use -ge or -dge at the end of a word is the fourth…
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Is It AU or AW? Spelling Strategies For Vowel Teams
The spelling generalizations for vowels really are cumulative. Although it may take a lot of practice for your students to internalize them, an understanding of…
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Is it OI or OY? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
When you’re thinking about spelling a word with OI or OY, location is everything. In some ways, the /oy/ sound is one of the more…
