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I love to hear this so much! I'm so glad this video was helpful to you! Thank you for sharing with me!

Great question! The 'a' in salamander is a schwa sound, which makes that lazy "uhhh" sound. I have a video on schwa sounds if you want more information on that. You are correct to assume it should make a long vowel sound but the schwa comes in and complicates things. I always tell my students to try the sound they believe it should make, then try the other vowel sound (in this case a short a sound), and if it still doesn't sound right, then try the schwa sound. Take a look at my schwa video and see if that doesn't clarify some things for you!

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What other videos are you hoping to see? I have lots of videos with blending letter sounds!

Is it because of the silent e?

@@JenKumar THE SUFFIX IS -ED. THE PRONUNCIATION IS "PASST"...NOT PASSD AS-ED IS ADDED TO A WORD ENDING UNVOICED LETTER-S. PAS-SING -FOLLOWS DOUBLE CONSONANT RULE. IN CUPPED- "PPED" MAKES PT SOUND.=CUPT THERE IS A UNVOICED P BEFORE THE -ED. THERE ARE RULES.

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I really appreciate your positive comment!

Thank you so much for this comment! It makes my heart so full when I hear I'm able to help families beyond my own students! I'm so glad you found my channel!

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I am a teacher! Thank you for thinking of me as a tutor. I currently only offer in-person tutoring sessions. Virtual sessions are quite challenging because the work I do is very hands-on with manipulatives.

More videos coming! Just hard to get lots of videos made with my regular teaching schedule. I'm so happy the videos have been beneficial!

This makes me so happy to hear! Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad it was helpful for you!

Hi Linda--thank you for digging into the dictionary! Sometimes you can divide syllables in more than one way and still get the same answer! toa/ster is probably a much more accurate way of dividing the syllable but often times students can see root words and suffixes easier and divide that way.

There is a hierarchy of skills. So yes, ck stays together! This is because the consonant LE makes the vowel have a schwa sound instead of an open long vowel with the separation. CK is still considered a chunk for consonant -le. You should always look for the vowels first but then look for what you notice--in this case ckle--that -le will give you a clue your vowel will make a schwa/lazy vowel sound. Great question!

I am not well versed in British English so I can't say for certain. I did student teach in Horsham, England, and from my experience they do follow these same rules--only exception would be the adding of "u" into words like "colour" instead of "color" for American English.

Thanks for your question. There are always exceptions or rule breakers for every rule. Words like mishop don't actually have the digraph /sh/ in it because we would look at the pre-fix /mis/ and the root word /hop/. If we made the /sh/ sound then it would change the word entirely. Same with "finger". You would divide it /fing/ /er/ because the /ing/ chunk stays together. You may have to play around with the word and where you divide to get an accurate division.

Leo, thanks for your positive comments! I really appreciate knowing these are helpful for you. So I make these videos for my elementary school students as we are learning new mastery skills. We haven't gotten to 'ous' words so that's why there isn't a video for it but I'll take it into consideration that you'd like that! I really just make videos for my students. Great question about 'vision' and not having the long i sound. This ties into tion/sion rules. They dictate the vowel sound. Look more into tion/sion if you're confused. Hopefully that helps!

@@sarahacuffjordan Great, that's very kind of you. I will check that out. As a lifetime English learner, let me tell you a couple of things. This journey is endless !!!! and also, a couple of years ago I started studying syllable division rules, where words are stressed and how to identify the schwa sound and believe me that helped a lot to my confident while speaking in English, and even more, my spelling and listening have improved dramatically. You know what, some time ago, somebody told me "if you can say it, you can hear it" Best regards, stay safe and thanks for your help ! Leo

@@lconte1515 English is such a difficult language to learn and there's always rule breakers! Feel free to email me at acuffs@waterlooschools.org if you ever have specific questions. I post a lot of helpful hints/strategies on my school blog www.readingacuff.wordpress.com as well. My passion is helping language learners/struggling readers! I'm happy to hear learning these rules has made you a more confident reader/writer/speaker! That's so great.

Great, thanks for the offer, I will definitely keep it in mind and of course visit your blog. ! Have a nice rest of the weekend ! Leo

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