R-Controlled Vowels: Strategies for Spelling /er/
Vowels followed by the letter r are strongly influenced in their sound by the r. It is no longer possible to pronounce a short or…
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5 Tips for Teaching Scribal O
Scribal o is a spelling convention with a fascinating historical story. The History of Scribal O Long ago, before the printing press was in common…
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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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11 Tips for Teaching -able and -ible
As students move on to more advanced concepts, certain spelling conventions don’t fit neatly into a clear-cut rule with a catchy turn of phrase. They…
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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…
