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Learning the building blocks of words – sounds, their spellings, and word parts

Usually Middle Eastern or Central Asian words.

Akhenaten

astrakhan

Bukharin

Gurkha

gymkhana

Kazakhstan

Khachaturian

khaki

khan

Khartoum

Khmer

Khyber

Sakharov

Sikh

Tutankhamen

Zakharov

When digraphs ain’t digraphs
When working on decoding and spelling two-syllable words with a student, I often use the TRUGS deck 4 cards, which include the word “mishap”. Invariably, my students parse this as “mish-ap”, rhyming the first syllable with “fish”. At first this made me want to get out my correction tape and replace “mishap” with a word […]

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