A couple of weeks ago I came across a piece by Kelli Sandman-Hurley in Edutopia entitled ‘Teaching Syllables Can Mask Meaningful Morphemes’. In the article, which you can read here, Sandman-Hurley starts by asking how many times you’ve seen the word ‘every’ spelled as ‘evry’. This is indeed a close approximation of what we hear when we are speaking normally in conversation. On the… Continue reading Teaching syllables or morphemes? Why Sandman-Hurley is mistaken