Boost Spelling Grades! Targeted Spelling Lists Build Essential Language Arts Skills! Personalized Learning Tracks Individual Progress! Game-Play Excitement Ensures Learning Motivation! Spelling Pattern Groups Long & short vowels Prefixes & suffixes Compound words "ie" & "sh" words Double consonants Silent letters Homophones Irregular plurals And much, much more! G
Encourage literacy with twenty original songs by musician and educator Al Balkin! Children's and school librarians will welcome "Tune Up to Literacy", a handy package of music and activities that musically introduces and reinforces crucial literacy concepts such as the alphabet, vowels, consonants, nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentence construction, punctuation, sequence, rhyming, and much, much more.
A unique tool to build better spellers, this handy book reveals and explains 48 rules that govern the way words are spelled, covering principles such as doubling final consonants, plurals of compound words, etc. An additional section covers mnemonics, homophones, root words, abbreviations and more.
English historical linguistics has been characterised by a strong focus on changes that affected the vowel system (such as the Great Vowel Shift). In contrast, the consonantal system has been considered as more stable and changes in individual consonants or groups of consonants have been neglected. This is illustrated by Finegan (1990: 78, 80), who points out that the diachronic development of English was primarily one of vowel rather than consonant change: ...
