The suffixes ‘-ant’ and ‘-ent’ are added to words to form a noun to indicate a ‘person who’ or ‘thing that’ (e.g., an ‘assistant’ is a person who assists, a ‘president’ is a person who presides). They are also added … Continued
Today, ‘gh’ is pronounced as /f/ as in ‘laugh’, /g/ as in ‘ghost’ or is not pronounced at all as in ‘daughter’ or ‘night’. It is interesting to look at the history surrounding this combination of letters as in fact … Continued
If you are not a good speller, the explicit teaching of words in terms of identifying the phonemes (sounds), the letters and letter combinations representing those phonemes (graphemes), the morphemes (prefixes, suffixes and stems) and understanding any relevant rules are … Continued
What do you do when your children or students spell a word incorrectly or ask you how to spell a word? Do you: Tell them how to spell the word? Write the word correctly for them? Tell them to look … Continued
Learning to spell many English words correctly can be a long and difficult journey. Why for example do we have a silent ‘b’ in words like bomb, climb, debt and doubt? Often the answer lies in tracing the word back … Continued