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A good time to start using letter names

Here’s another one I heard in the classroom recently. A teacher was teaching her children the sound /ow/, as in ‘cow’, and a member of the class came up to the whiteboard to write the word. After the child had written the first spelling and said the sound, the teacher told the child to write… Continue reading A good time to start using letter names

Phonics and how to teach it

‘Curly c’ and ‘kicking k’ or ‘This spelling of /k/’?

Very often I hear teachers talking about “curly ‘kuh’” and “kicking ‘kuh” to register the difference between the spellings [ c ] and [ k ], representing the sound /k/. Why don’t we use this language in Sounds-Write? The answer is simple. If instead we talk about “This kind of /k/,” or “This spelling of… Continue reading ‘Curly c’ and ‘kicking k’ or ‘This spelling of /k/’?