you don’t hear the “ia” sound you just hear u- flute.

This is because if you try to say “fliut”

it’s just your tongue will trip over it

So sometimes we drop the “ia” sound

in a log “u” sound

So what I like to do is

I like to explain the students that u has for sounds

A short sound “a”

And two long sounds

“iu” and “u” which are related

And that there is two of them so that

it’s easier to say in some words

And then a broad sound

With a logical English

I believe in Teaching Through Discovery

It’s really important that students have the opportunity

to discover the spelling rules

And on their own

rather than us just telling them

When we teach through discovery

it engages students with questions

And we provide support for the students

so they cannot fail

You know, too often we teach language

where we throw the students into the midst

to this complex language called English

We don’t give them much a guidance

and we expect them to figure out the rules

and the phonograms on their own

now some people do

however many people

never are able to figure out those rules

and those phonograms on their own

rather, it helps when they are taught explicitly

how the language works

Now, what I’d like to do though

is to help the students discover it

so it’s not just boring what we’re telling them

rather would teach them the critical thinking skills

about how to learn language

and how to analyze language

so that maybe they come up with new spelling rules

that they discovered or patterns

and they have the tools

to learn second and third languages.

Let’s try this with learning the rule about two letter CK.

On your screen, you’ll see a list of words

that end with a two letter or have a two letter CK in them,

these words are also listed on

page 81 of the Teacher's Training Manual.

If you take a moment I would like you to underline

the two letter "CK" as you read the words

and then to mark the vowel sound as short, long or broad

and see what you discover

I would encourage you at this point

to pause the video and actually take a moment

to discovered the rule for yourself before you turn it back on

Alright, well I hope that your page looks about like this

Well you’ll have discovered

as that two letter CK is used

only after a single short vowel

and the rule is stated like this

CK is used only after a single vowel

which says its short sound

what you see on the screen

is a sample of the logical English spelling rule cards

and we have um a set of cards available

for you to use as you teach your students

on one side is the rule

and on the other side are sample words

and I like to use the sample words

to help students to practice the rules

where they have to look at the words,

read and then and I can say

what rule is this illustrating ?

So they are able to then distill that information not just (wrongly) recited

All right, why can we not use two letter CK

in words like cheek and creek?

I tried it saying its long sound.

Also you’ll notice that it has a two letter vowel here

´´e`` double ‘’e`` is a, has two letters in that photogram

If you go later in these aah these sample words

you’ll notice the words bike and like.

Why can't you use two letter K here?

It’s a single vowel but once again it’s a long vowel sound.

On page 82 of your teacher’s training manual

you’ll find a few games to practice words which use the two letter CK phonogram

and I think it’s really a good idea when teaching students a new rule

to have them work with the rule within the context of a lot of words

Then when we go to the spelling list I don’t have the spelling list

only utilize that rule because then

you don’t need to use critical thinking skills

or practice what you’ve learned in the past

rather I put in a few words that use that rule but then words