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

The i and e aren’t a split digraph in these words, they represent two different sounds

anime

cinema

coliseum

epidemic

fidelity

hideous

idea

kinetic

liberal

limerick

lineage

linear

linguine

mimetic

pimento

pineal

recipe

simile

video

vinegar

Articulatory awareness and modelling a “spelling voice”
The older struggling spellers I work with often have one parent who is good at spelling, and one parent who isn’t. No prizes for guessing who inherited whose spelling-related genes. The three of them often come to our first session. After we’ve done some assessment, we often have a conversation that goes something like this: […]

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