Sounds & Syllables

Sounds & Syllables - the sensible primary spelling and word building programme. Also @jasonwade71

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@Mr_AlmondED @MissSDoherty Huge congratulations to you both.

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@OldratEssex @LauraRbnsn Taikonaut

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And I'm aware it's <skeptic> in the US. 😉

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Other than <sceptic> are there any other English words in which <sc> does not spell /s/ before <e> (scent), <i> (science) or <y> (scythe>?

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@smorrisey Allomorphs are the variant phonetic realisations of a morpheme. (The words that can be constructed from your <tent> matrix alone contain several allomorphs of that root.) Spelling reflects some of that phonetic variation.

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@RyonWLeyshon Yeah, I concur. I was considering reposting my morphology resources again (plus a few I’ve not posted before) but without a blue tick doubt the lack of engagement would make it worthwhile.

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@RyonWLeyshon And the 'write several spellings and decide which one looks right' strategy is part of many teachers' spelling toolkit.

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@RyonWLeyshon Thankfully, as you know, we don't have that in England, but several spelling programmes here have children correcting spelling errors and finding the correct spelling in a multiple choice situation.

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@lifelonglit @ChrisCotF Thank you. Likewise.

Hopefully, I'll get around to a book some day.

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@dnleslie @lifelonglit @ChrisCotF I haven't read it. I've only seen the few photos posted here where a pointed out some of the inaccuracies.

I've no idea whether those are the only inaccuracies or there are others.

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@ChrisCotF @lifelonglit It was probably for the best. 🙂

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@lifelonglit @ChrisCotF Just checked my emails, and there was a lot of back and forth until Feb 2023 and then they said they were looking for someone to do the graphics / design side of it. I never heard from them again. 🤷‍♀️

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@lifelonglit @ChrisCotF I went to their offices in London in November 2022 for an initial meeting, so it would have been a month or two before that when they got in touch. They wanted to create a book around the morphology resources I was posting at the time.

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@lifelonglit @ChrisCotF The first and only time I've come across the book was in this thread. I found the whole experience a little odd.

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@lifelonglit @ChrisCotF then *it* went quiet

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@lifelonglit @ChrisCotF I don't know. They get in touch in 2022 and asked if I wanted to write the book. Had a couple of meetings. Then I went quiet.

I don't know anything about the author. I recall googling and she'd written quite a few primary Literacy books.

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@lifelonglit @ChrisCotF Oh, I remember you tweeting that you’d been asked to write a book on morphology, I remember it because I’d been asked by DK to write this book too.