Direct and Explicit Teaching for Short Vowel Generalizations
When it comes to helping kids learn short vowel generalizations, clarity is everything. Guessing or memorizing random rules doesn’t build confidence. However, understanding does. Luckily,…
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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…
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Spelling Choices for Long O: Tips for Teaching this Spelling Generalization
Some spelling considerations are less about clear rules to follow than frequency and expectations. Such is the case for spelling the long o sound. O-e…
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Is it OU or OW? Tips for Teaching This Two-Part Spelling Generalization
Not all spelling generalizations are as neat and tidy as you might like them to be. Just as the spelling generalizations for the floss rule,…
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Y as a Vowel: Multisensory Spelling Strategies
As part of our spelling generalization blog series, this next post is going to give you the low down on Y as a vowel. Most…
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Is it C or K? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
Does it start with c or k? A simple spelling generalization that students find very empowering regards the spelling of the initial /k/ sound or…
