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Don McCabe <donmccabe1@gmail.com>Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM
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The "Scrunched-Up" Words
Vocabulary: The word Sandhi ispronounced just like Sunday and sundae.This is the linguists' term for what AVKOcalls the phenomenon of the "scrunchingup" of our words in a very specific mannerthat crosses all dialects of English. Inother words, no matter what our particulardialect, whether an Irish brogue, a Texantwang, or a Georgia drawl, we all scrunchup our words in the same basic fashion. Rarely do wepronounce the word spelled y-o-u as "yoo." Rather, it's "yuh"or "juh" as in "Would 'yuh' like some..." or "Did 'juh' hearabout... Consequently, some students end up misspellingcommon words and phrases such as "want to" as wanna,"going to" as gonna, "used to" as usta, etc. If you noticethese misspellings in your students' writings, it isn't enough just to circle them in red. In fact, it's a rare student thatactually profits from the corrections put on his or her paper.You dictate from the phonic spellings and your student is
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Don McCabe, AVKO'sdirector is makingseveral radiointerviews over thenext month or so.You can hearlive simulcast on theinternet at thesestations: Oct 9, 10:15amwnav.comOct 13, 3:15pm1510.comOct 17,10:15amrealtalk1160.com Don is also taping anhour long interview athealthradionetwork.comandbroadcast at a dateto be determined. Wewill keep you posted.supposed to (pronounced "sposta") write the sentence usingproper spelling. For example you read:"Whud juh say?" Your student should write "What did yousay?" Don't be surprised if they write "What you say?"See more samples from the bookSpeech to Spelling 
Spelling Should be FUN
Encouraging your kids touse SpellingCity.com to have fun while practicing theirspelling. Playing word games is fun. It gives practicalexercise spelling the words and it reaffirms what they know. Poetry is another fun way to play with words. Check outAVKO's rhyming dictionary
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It gives easy ways to write fun poetry.All AVKO books can be purchased as e-books.
 
English as a Second LanguageLearners
AVKO'sSpeech to Spellingbook isexcellent for the student learning English.Generally they learn as a child does - tospeak first, then learn the letter andsounds building small words in thebeginning.The older the student the faster theyprogress in the letter-sound recognition and speed on tovocabulary building. Often the English language learnerrecognizes phrases they have heard when others speak.Repeating what they have heard they say and spell it theway they have heard it. So we often see, sentences likethis: "I am s'posta meet the guys here" or "Dooya wanna gosee a movie?" TheSpeech to Spellingbook helps the student to recognizehow we native English speakers talk. The fact is, even youngnative English speakers can have the very same problems,hence our book,Speech to Spellingsaves the day!
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