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I have many videos about these on my Syllable Division playlist: th-cam.com/play/PL3sqnoXRuBAv5lO1F4IJzdyFjlIhMvxD9.html

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I think that's a great idea. I hope to do this in the next few weeks. I'll post a link here when I do. In the mean time, if you haven't watched my video about Accented Syllables, be sure to check it out. th-cam.com/video/Vet-7iDCo48/w-d-xo.html I know it's not exactly what you're talking about, but it might be the closest thing I've already made.

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I've never heard that word before, and the dictionary lists it as an acronym for "severe combined immune deficiency." If that's what you're referring to, the word is formed from the first letter of each word in the phrase, S.C.I.D. In this case, the C would keep the hard sound because the word "combined" has a hard C. If that's not the word you mean, then I would agree that it should be pronounced as SID.

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Thanks! I hope to have lesson 4 up in the next week.

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I'm working on more videos, so stay tuned!

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Definitely. If they are accenting the wrong syllables, it can make them very hard to understand.

One thing is that California has a larger percent of English language learners than most states. Aside from that, it looks like schools in California were very anti-phonics for decades. I know nothing about this organization, but a quick search found this article. californiapolicycenter.org/reports/californias-literacy-crisis/ Here's an except. "But literacy coach Margaret Goldberg, hired by Oakland Unified School District as a teacher in 2015, describes her experience using Leveled Literacy Intervention as disheartening. She observed a first grade student say a sentence completely different from the words on the page. He was relying on the pictures since he could not decode the words. But he “breezed right through it, unaware that he hadn’t read the sentence on the page.” Goldberg realized that “lots” of students were in the same boat with that curriculum. She then switched to a phonics-based curriculum called Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words. The result? Goldberg’s students learned how to sound out the words and became proficient readers. " The "Sold a Story" podcast episodes go into more detail. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ I haven't listened to all of them, but I think I listened to the first episode a few years ago. What stuck out in my mind was that education professors decided that teaching kids letter sounds (phonics) was old-fashioned and boring, so they began selling reading programs to schools without this skill. Imagine if math books taught that students had to memorize every math problem separately instead of teaching them how to do it! There is simply no way for students to memorize tens of thousands of English words as sight words. This approach means kids get stuck at a low reading level. The other thing I remember from the episode I listened to was the example of having kids rely on pictures to "read." If the book had a picture of a cat and the student said "cat" instead of the word "kitty" if that's what the text said, teachers were told NOT to correct the student.

As for solutions, students need to be systematically be taught phonics for years. Math teachers wouldn't be allowed to get away with saying students need to memorize 123x14 rather than knowing how to solve the problem because learning how to do the problem is "boring" or "old-fashioned." Unfortunately, I suspect we are multiple generations removed from the average elementary school teacher being trained in how to teach phonics. Homeschoolers use phonics though because the parents can more easily see if their kids can actually read or not.

I just did a quick search and found this: www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/16/graduated-not-literate They found in 2003 that only 25% of college graduates (and 31% of students with at least some grad school courses) scored as "proficient" in on a literacy test based on the ability to read newspaper articles, follow directions, and other tasks like that. Scores for every level of education were down in 2003 compared to 1992.

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Good idea! I'll make a blending video this weekend.

Here you go: th-cam.com/video/Kz4oLJT5t9I/w-d-xo.html

Miriam-Webster has it divided this way: uni·​for·​mi·​ty I divided it the way I did for reading purposes because it's easier for people to spot the root "uniform" plus the suffix "ity." Maybe I didn't make that clear in my video.

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What is the CH sound in German? Is it like a K? I wonder why it became silent in English.

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What gives you the most trouble? Here are my recommendations: The slowest pace course starts here: th-cam.com/video/-_Tgi2hCo8o/w-d-xo.html A faster-paced review course starts here: th-cam.com/video/TucnCw9Rjww/w-d-xo.html If reading long words is the problem, start here: th-cam.com/video/BWzzPq-L8Us/w-d-xo.html

Without knowing more, my guess is that your school never taught you all the sounds each letter or group of letters make. Watching my videos will probably help.

@@OneMinuteReadingTutor no they didn’t and that’s embarrassing for me to be honest. Like I’m trying to read better but it’s just hard for me. And I am In highschool smh

They are the ones who should feel embarrassed, not you. It isn't your fault that they failed you and your classmates. But don't lose hope. It isn't too late! I bet even 10-20 hours of work on learning the phonics rules over the next month or two will make a big difference.

This is because it can be the past tense. E.g. “I read [red] a book” signifies that I have PREVIOUSLY read [red] a book. “I read [reed] a book” wouldn’t make too much sense, instead you would say “I read [reed] books” to put it in the present tense. Hope this helps!

As @zmathpanda wrote, the same spelling is used for both the present and past tense. "I like to read" is in the present tense and uses the long E sound. "Yesterday I read a book" is in the past tense and uses the short E sound, which makes it sound the same as the color red.

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Happy to help! Keep watching for more videos later this week.

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Yes, this is an example of AW before an N.

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gynae = GY-nuh "Gynaecology" is the British spelling. In American English it's spelled, "gynecology." Both words are pronounced the same. The AE (or E in American English) is a muffled short E sound that we call a schwa. A schwa is an unaccented/unemphasized vowel sound that usually sounds like a short U, but sometimes sounds like a short I. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gynaecology

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences Under the heading "Greek-derived and Latin-derived spellings" at Wikipedia you can see other words that are spelled with AE in British English where American English uses just an A.

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