Jj is for Jottings 71. 4 Signs of Weak Spellers.
This is just a quick post a week after the last one, so I can get back into sync with my working days.
The 4 tell-tale symptoms of weak spellers are: Continue reading
Jj is for Jottings 70. The End of a Word is Not Always the End.
In traditional tests of articulation (speech sounds) and when we are sounding out words in reading, we think very much in terms of sounds at the beginning, in the middle and on the end of a word. In the case of early stage reading and spelling using 3-sound words, we are asking, “What sound can you hear at the beginning of the word?” “What sound can you hear at the end of the word? “What sound can you hear in the middle of the word?” Continue reading
Jj is for Jottings 69. /l/ Sound is Different on the End.
You probably haven’t thought about this before, but /l/ (the slashes indicate the sound rather than the letter name) is pronounced differently when it is the last sound in an utterance or followed by a consonant, compared with when it is followed by a vowel. And if that sounds like gobbledygook, Continue reading