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There is no reading part of the brain. Reading is seeing a word string, instantly hearing the sound of each word in your head (like hearing STOP when you see a STOP sign) and using the auditory speech part of your brain to make sense of what you have read.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet and 45 sounds, so letters make more than one sound
A reader does not know if a new word is:
- Phonetic
- The word is an exception
Use simple mark up within each English to provide all the information a reader needs to unambiguously and confidently sound out the word letter by letter with no rules or exceptions.
- Letters with no sound characters make their usual sound e.g. “hand”
- Silent characters are shown e.g. “g” in “sign”
- A stressed syllable starts with solid syllable breaks •, an unstressed syllable starts with a hollow syllable break ◦ or with no syllable break for the first syllable in a word
Sounding out words syllable by syllable
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Sounding out words syllable by syllable is easy as you just say the first syllable and then the second without a pause.
Here are two syllables: “black” and “smith” and the compound word is “blacksmith”. More…
Learning the sound of syllables is a very efficient way to learn sightwords:
- Syllables are short, so they are quick and easy to learn.
- Learning the sound of sightwords by sounding out syllables is very efficient. 36 words are made up solely of these 15 syllables: 'up', 'down', 'in', 'out', 'on', 'off', 'ing', 'under', 'side', 'set', 'flow', 'go', 'grow', 'put', 'hold'. Learning 15 syllables is faster and easier then learning 36 words. More…
- 'up', 'down', 'in', 'out', 'on', 'off', 'ing', 'under', 'side', 'set', 'flow', 'go', 'grow', 'put', 'hold'. Here is an incomplete list of 36 words made up solely of the above 15 syllables:
- 'up' + 'on' = upon
- 'in' + 'to' = into
- 'on' + 'to' = onto
- 'out' + 'side' = outside
- 'off' + 'set' = offset
- 'under' + 'go' = undergo
- 'out' + 'grow' = outgrow
- 'in' + 'put' = input
- 'up' + 'hold' = uphold
- 'down' + 'side' = downside
- 'under' + 'side' = underside
- 'in' + 'side' = inside
- 'on' + 'side' = onside
- 'up' + 'side' = upside
- 'out' + 'put' = output
- 'up' + 'set' = upset
- 'off' + 'side' = offside
- 'in' + 'flow' = inflow
- 'set' + 'up' = setup
- 'hold' + 'off' = holdoff
- 'down' + 'set' = downset
- 'hold' + 'up' = holdup
- 'up' + 'set' + 'ing' = upsetting
- 'out' + 'grow' + 'ing' = outgrowing
- 'in' + 'put' + 'ing' = inputting
- 'under' + 'go' + 'ing' = undergoing
- 'off' + 'side' + 'ing' = offsiding
- 'out' + 'flow' + 'ing' = outflowing
- 'up' + 'hold' + 'ing' = upholding
- 'in' + 'flow' + 'ing' = inflowing
- 'set' + 'up' + 'ing' = settingup
- 'on' + 'side' + 'ing' = onsiding
- 'down' + 'side' + 'ing' = downsiding
- 'hold' + 'ing' + 'off' = holdingoff
- 'ongoing' (‘on’ + ‘go’ + 'ing') = ongoing
- 'outgoing' (‘out’ + ‘go’ + 'ing') = outgoing
- When you encounter a new multisyllable word, you may only need to learn one or two syllables because you already know the sounds of the other syllables.
- The limits on working memory only apply to new information. So if you have already learned a number of syllables, you should be able to sound out long, multisyllable words containing some of your known syllables.