Winning the Spelling Bee with Spelling Stories: PART 1

1. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 1 Winning the Spelling Bee with Spelling Stories: PART 1 Presenter: Elke Schneider (Ph.D.) School of Education Winthrop University, SC E-mail: schneidere@winthrop.edu

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3. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 3 Silent E, the nurse helps a final �V� stand up at the end of a word : have, give, leave, move magic E- POWER to SINGLE VULNERABLE VOWELS when they are caught by a COOL COP: came, home, fume, lime, fine, tone, rake, lake, bike, race, rose, softening pillow, or provides one to make a voiceless sharp �s� be able to �take a rest� between 2 vowels and �take a nap� saying the z-sound: rose, nose, phase, cheese,

4. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 4 Silent E, the nurse helps letter C say the s-sound : C: pace, race, space, nice, rice, peace, piece, Helps the letter G the soft �g�-sound: G: cage, rage, stage, age, She helps the letter C and G say these sound when they are embedded in longer words C: noticeable, without the E the word would not sound related to : notice embrace + ed/ed = embraced/ing letter E or I can make C say S- sound.

5. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 5 Silent E, the nurse She is very polite when it comes to leaving her place quietly in a word. She only does it, however when she knows that another letter that stays takes over her nursing job: engage + ing = engaging, because letter I can make G soft. engage + ment engagement, she stays because no other letter can take over the job of keeping G soft NEWER exception: judgment

6. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 6 Silent E, the nurse She makes sure that everyone knows that in very important basic words the letter S belongs to the root of the word and does NOT signal a plural nurs +e = nurse (not 1 nur , 2 nurs!) ; hors + e = horse, purs + e = purse, wors + e = worse; mous + e = mouse, lous + e = louse; goos + e = goose; chees + e = cheese, pleas + e = please

7. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 7 Red word-Jail Words-Rotten fish words Words that cannot be sounded out or spelled according to any rule. Hire �secret service� through multiple kinesthetic tracing & saying of letter names of letters & other mnemonic devices

8. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 8 Insulted single vowels Single vowels in words with more than 1 syllable get insulted when they cannot carry the accent. They cannot say the true long or short sound and �fall out of the speakers mouth� (morning sickness sound) = SCHWA SOUND

9. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 9 Y & W not COPSbut fraternal twins/half vowels-half brothers of vowels very friendly consonants refused to become cops. only consonants in the alphabet family that can pair up with a single vowel into a fraternal twin pair, become a team and make a vowel-ish sound.

10. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 10 W & Y: fraternal twins = HALF VOWELS As a twin team, they are strong. The single vowels are not vulnerable anymore and will not change their sound, even if a consonant COP comes and places itself after a vowel team. These teams always appear at the end of a word/syllable. W Y -ew: few, crew, knew, new -ey: key, obey, -ow: cow, throw, bow, glow -oy: toy, boy, convoy -aw; jaw, draw, law, saw -ay: day, relay, delay, May, stay -uy: buy (red word)

11. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 11 �S� taking a nap When voiceless �s� is framed by voiced vowels, they serve as pillows and �s� takes a nap and �snoozes� off. Plea + s + e �zzzzzz� Ro + s + e �zzzzz� S �zzzzzz�

12. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 12 Moody soft C & G When C is followed by E, I or Y, it goes soft and makes the �s�-sound. E, I, Y <= When G is followed by E, I , or Y, it makes the soft G-sound.

13. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 13 SHY �Y� and his only friend I Y� & I = �Y� runs away when another letter but �I� wants to attach itself to him cry + ing = crying Cry + ed = Y runs & I comes = cried

14. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 14 SHY �Y� and his only friend I Y in a team does not have to be shy: -ey , -ay, -oy destroy + ed = destroyed Delay + ed = delayed Pray + er = prayer Obey + ed = obeyed

15. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 15 FLOSS RULE Spelling Rule: If you hear F, L, or S at the end of a short word with a short vowel ? double F, L, S like in FLOSS your teeth.

16. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 16 FLOSS RULE Examples: -ff: cuff, cliff, stiff, stuff, off -ll: fill, sill, cell, scull, dull, fell, NEVER �all ->has different sound: wall, all -ss: grass, moss, miss, fuss, re.gress BUT not: thin, gram, log, fat, RED WORDS: this, is, chef, pal, of

17. READ 651, Dr. Schneider 17 Barf�-able syllables The C-le syllable sounds like a barf-sound with silent E: -ble, -dle, -gle, -zle, -ple, c.kle, -fle, -tle (!) Can have short, long, vowelteam, r-control sound-letter patterns in front; rifle, needle, puddle, drizzle, marble, bugle, kettle, cattle

Winning the Spelling Bee with Spelling Stories: PART 1

Winning the Spelling Bee with Spelling Stories: PART 1

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