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  • Single syllable words sorted by sound: /d/

    I am creating lists of one-syllable words sorted by sound. This week, the sound is /d/, which can be spelled, ‘d’, ‘dd’, or ‘ed’.  Beginning consonant blends with the /d/ sound include dr and dw. Ending consonant blends with the /d/ sound include dge, ld, nd, rd, and ds. If you can think of any other…

  • Single Syllable Words Sorted by Sound: /k/

    I am creating lists of single syllable words sorted by sound. This week, the sound is /k/, which can be spelled, ‘c’, ‘k’, or ‘ck’. Consonant blends with the /k/ sound include cl and cr at the beginning of words, and ct at the end of words. Read more on my Substack post: https://andreahazard.substack.com/p/single-syllable-words-sorted-by-sound-603?r=38en9f&triedRedirect=true

  • Single syllable words sorted by sound: /a/

    I am creating lists of single syllable words sorted by sound. This week, the sound is /a/, typically called short a. We’ve all learned that short a is spelled ‘a’ and long a is spelled  ‘a-e’. However, I can think of three words in which short a is spelled a-e: have, axe, and Anne. Can you…

  • Single syllable words sorted by sound: /b/

    I need your help. To produce content for my Step-by-Step Reading Program, I’ve created lists of one-syllable words sorted by sound. The lists are pretty good, but not complete. Every time I go through them I think of another common word that I can’t believe I missed. Read the rest for free on Substack.

  • Spellings of the English language

    an introduction to graphemes The English language has over forty sounds but only twenty-six letters. Because there are fewer letters than sounds, many sounds, such as the /ch/ in chip, are represented by a letter pair or letter group. Learning to read English would be difficult enough if this were the only quirk of the…

  • Sounds of the English Language

    an introduction to phonemes A phoneme is the smallest unit of a spoken language that conveys meaning. The English word bad has three phonemes (b, a, and d). If any one of these phonemes is substituted by another, the meaning changes. For example, when e is substituted for a in the word bad, a new word with a different meaning is…

  • A Brief History of Reading Education

    Growing up in the 1970s, I remember visiting my grandparents and looking through my dad’s old Dick and Jane books. I knew that these books were used to teach the antiquated method of look-say, in which students were required to memorize whole words, and felt glad to have born in the modern age of phonics…