Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
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Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
A vowel suffix is an ending that begins with a vowel.
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
reading and spelling are the same process in reverse.
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
A vowel is a sound that is produced when the mouth is open and the sound is not blocked by the lips, teeth, or tongue. Vowels are sounds that can be sustained,
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
Despite its complex phonetic system, many aspects of English are much simpler than other modern languages.
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
these students are not wrong; they are doing exactly what they were told to do.
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
Rule 10 When a word ends with the phonogram A, it says /ä/.
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
Due to the unique challenges with spoken English, spellings are chosen to represent sound while preserving meaning. In other words, English is a morpho-phonemic language where the morphology or meaning of words is balanced with the phonemic representation of words, resulting in some phonograms representing multiple sounds.
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
English words do not end in I, U, V, or J.
Denise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
Reading is the process of decoding the “sound pictures” and reforming them into auditory words.