teaching awe-dropping

[Tom Zurinskas]

Teaching mispronunciation - The words "cough" and "astronaut" contain "awe" not "ah" phonemes in my book. The letter o makes several sounds. The most common representation of the short /o/ vowel sound is in words where the vowel is in a closed pattern, such as in dot, hot, dock, frog, and clock. There are other ways to represent the short /o/ vowel sound, such as ou in cough, oh in John, and au in astronaut."
http://www.readinga-z.com/book/decodable.php?id=7
Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk


 
 


                                          
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