Saying a word out loud and listening to the different sounds can help you spell that word. Beth, Kim and Patrick have made a fruit stand. Can they work out how to get the spelling right on their signs ...

Humans couldn't be satisfied with spelling out only things they say. They also needed to spell out the sounds around them. Giving a name to a sound is called "onomatopoeia." The word is difficult to ...

My 11-year-old student sighs. How can the same letters make so many different sounds? We are looking at the letter combination “ough”, which can be read in seven different ways: “through”, “thorough”, ...

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