Kylie Conrad

Educator, literacy specialist & lifelong learner with a passion for understanding orthography & the science of literacy acquisition.

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@RyonWLeyshon @annephillipssea @SoundSyllable I’m not sure I agree that the consonant in unnamed, midday etc is elongated. Each of those consonant pairs is part of a separate written morpheme, and we pronounce each of them.

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@RyonWLeyshon @annephillipssea @SoundSyllable Could you share the source of what you’re reading? In orthography, my understanding is that consonant gemination was used as an orthographic marker for signalling a preceding short/lax vowel pronunciation?

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Upcoming Teacher PD “Word Study Tools for Spelling & Vocabulary” - orthography, spelling, morphology, phonology, etymology!

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⛓CONNECTING VOWEL LETTERS in MORPHOLOGY⛓

One of the most frequently asked questions concerns the elusive & often misunderstood 'connecting vowel letter' that features in so many words of Latin/Greek origin.

Contact me for more info or to register - details below.

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@jheunisteach @PamelaSnow2 @SusanGodsland @JulianElliott11 @SWLiteracy @ThinkReadTweet @robrandel Because dyslexia is neurological and lifelong, and not all reading difficulties are. Some are caused by poor or inadequate instruction, for example.

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@SoundSyllable @RyonWLeyshon @annephillipssea Root: happ (Old Norse)
Base: <hap> (Present Day English)

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@JamesAFurey Yes, and more specifically, teachers need a clear understanding of how our orthography truly works from a linguistic perspective.

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@RyonWLeyshon @SoundSyllable That Minkova/Stockwell book is pretty good!

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@SoundSyllable @RyonWLeyshon Agree 💯

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@SoundSyllable Yes, perhaps. Wouldn’t you say that to disambiguate is still a feature of final <e> in PDE orthography?

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@SoundSyllable I don’t think there’s anything wrong with saying that one of the jobs of the final <e> in a PDE word includes helping us with disambiguation. That’s not to say this was the original intention of its presence in all words.

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@SoundSyllable Perhaps some have evolved by analogy?
What would you propose its function to be otherwise?

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@WendyD_Tweets @LogicofEnglish Thank you Wendy! I love that LofE does much to foster orthographic understanding, but I did feel like this one needed a bit of a nudge back in the right direction!

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📣📣📣 Online course for teachers/speechies/tutors Starts this Wed 4th & Thurs 5th Dec - choose to participate in the live sessions, or the recordings, or both!

Do you love Etymonline, but you want to enhance how you tackle an entry to understand a word for teaching spelling?

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Here’s a PD I’m offering about Etymonline and how I go about gathering and interpreting information from its entries to explain spelling and build out morphological family connections…

https://t.co/dC7eugcuwn

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@JasmineFS208 Love this!