Supporters of English spelling reform argue that___words with more phonetically accurate letter combinations will promote literacy(读写能力). Others don’t think so. They say that the spelling system we use today leaves plenty of___to unlocking the history of the language, helping readers unders...
In these cases, "C" takes on the "s" sound, but if you were to write them phonetically, you'd use "K." The "Silent K": Now, here's where things get interesting! There are some cases where "K" is actually a ghost, hiding in the shadows and refusing to ma...
R, rar[ɹ]ripripEasy enough. For those that don't have a phonetic "r" of any kind, though, it shouldn't be used. S, ses[s]sonson"S" used to do a lot of things. No longer. Now it's just plain old "s" as in "sip". And no more double "s"'s, as in "miss". ...
One important point should be emphasized: In Heart Words, the whole word is not phonetically irregular; only a part or parts is irregular. In other words, “the parts to learn by heart.” On the Reading Rockets website, Linda Farrell and Michael Hunter summarize their helpful study on the...
Forminggerundsis one of the easiest things to do in the English language. All you have to do is add an ‘-ing’ to the end of the word. However, there are cases in which the last consonant has to be doubled before adding ‘-ing’. Check out the table below for a few examples of...
“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; mybackgroundand childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”―Anne Morrow Lindbergh,Gift from the Sea “Unseen in thebackground, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the...
The grandfather I did know had, within the family circle, a strong Black Country element to his speech, but the only expression retained in my mind's ear is "Dash my buttons!" in moments of exasperation at such things as cats molesting newly sown seeds. Again, I thought this a personal...
000 hertz.Bats send out lots of high-pitched squeaks and then listen to the echoes bouncing off things like insects.The shorter the time interval between the squeak and the echo,the closer they are to the insect.Using sound to find or“see” things is called echolocation.Another animal ...
3.After the ability to copy accurately from dictation has been secured, write out the story phonetically. Lay aside the phonetic version for a week and then write the story out from this version with the ordinary spelling, subsequently comparing with the original until the final vers...
There are a lot of things I love about Foundations — the teacher manual is well laid-out and easy to understand, it’s easy to keep the attention of even a distractable kid, and the prep-work for me is minimal. Lessons typically include a short phonogram and/or spelling rule lesson,...