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    The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English
    The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English
    The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English
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    The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English

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    The Blount Guide

    A logical phonetic manual for:

    1. - Parents and teachers of reading to small children.

    2. - Foreigners who wish to pronounce English correctly with instructions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German.

    3. - Spelling teachers.

    4. -.Home schoolers

    5. - Teachers of children with learning disabilities.

    6. - Writers of books for children who need to know which words are appropriate for which level reading

    7. - Computer programmers who wish to program their computers to teach reading and spelling.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 15, 2012
    ISBN9781468547184
    The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English
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    Beverly Blount

    Beverley Blount lives in Mexico City and El Paso, Texas. She is currently completing 28 years of training Montessori teachers in her schools. Blount had an eight -page article published in the award-winning centennial issue of the MONTESSORI LIFE journal and two lead articles in The KAPPAN, the ADK International Teacher's Organization's biannual journal. In 2008, the Mexican National Circle of Reporters awarded her their Golden Sun Statuette for special educational merit. This book is the result of her 46 years in the Montessori system of Education and her lifetime love of reading. She feels that the day one learns to read is possibly the most important day in one's life and that destroying this moment by using crude techniques and not properly preparing the beginning reader nor understanding when they are ready should be considered a crime. Her book El Dorado won first place in the 2013 El Paso Publisher's contest In the 2014 Writer's League annual contest her story Haciendado won first place and was published in their annual book Border Tapestry. In the 2015 Writer's League contest three of her entries won two first places and one second place and will also be published in their journal..

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      The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English - Beverly Blount

      The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English

      by

      Beverley Blount

      2nd Edition

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      AuthorHouse™ LLC

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2012, 2014 by Beverley Blount. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse    03/15/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-4720-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-4719-1 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-4718-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012901594

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Dreamstime© are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery courtesy of Dreamstime©

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Preface

      Sounds In The English Language

      Teachers Of English:

      For Parents And Teachers Of Beginning Readers

      Reading Two And Three Word Phrases.

      Sentences

      Double Consonants

      Double Consonants ck = k

      Double Consonants ck = k (cont…)

      Double Consonants

      Double Consonants ll

      Double Consonants

      a_e = long ā_silent e

      a_e = long ā_silent e (cont…)

      a #1 = ä

      a #1 = ä (cont…)

      a #2 = long ā

      a #3 = e

      a #4 = i (y = ē)

      a #5 = u

      able = uble (silent e)

      able = long ā + bul (silent e)

      ace = long ā + s (silent e)

      age #1 = long ā + j (silent e)

      age #2 = ej (silent e)

      ah = ä

      ai = long ā

      ain = en

      air = âr

      al #1 = aw

      al #2 = awl

      al #3 = ul

      ang = long ā + nj

      ant = unt

      ar #1 = R

      ar #2 = er

      ar #3 = âr

      are = âr

      ation = long ā + shun

      au = å

      augh #1 = ä

      augh #2 = af

      aw = aw

      ay = long ā

      be = b + long ē (silent e)

      ce #1 = s (silent e)

      ce #2 = se

      ce #3 = s + long ē

      ce #4 = sh

      cean = shun

      cei = s + long ē

      ch #1 = ch

      ch #2 = k

      ci #1 = sh

      ci #2 = si

      ci #3 = s + long ī

      cious = shus

      cir = sr

      co = cu

      ct

      cu = ceu

      cy #1 = s + long ē

      cy #2 = si

      cy #3 = s + long ī

      de = d + long ē

      dge = j

      di = d + long ī

      e #1 = long ē

      e #2 = short i

      e_e = long ē_e

      ea #1 = long ē (silent a)

      ea #1 = long ē (silent a)

      ea #2 = long ā

      ea #3 = silent a

      ea #4 = long ēā

      ear #1 = long ē + r

      ear #2 = âr

      ear #3 = er

      ear #4 = ar

      eau = ēū

      ed #1 = d

      ed #2 = id

      ed #3 = t

      ee = long ē

      eer = long ē + r

      ei #1 = long ā

      ei #2 = long ē

      eigh = long ā

      eign #1 = in

      eign #2 = long ā + n

      eir #1 = long ē

      eir #2 = âr

      el = ul

      eo = long ē

      er #1 = r

      er #2 = long ē + r

      ere #2 = â + r

      es = z

      eu = eu

      eve = long ē + v (silent e) (rule ē _e)

      ew = eu

      ey #1 = long ē

      ey #2 = ā

      eyre = âr + long ē

      ir + long ē

      g = j

      ge = j

      gi = ji

      gn = gn (silent g)

      gth = silent g + th

      gue = g

      gy = ji

      silent h

      i #1 = long ē

      i #2 = long ī

      i #3 = u

      ice #1 = is

      ice #2 = long ī + sz

      i - e #3 = long ī_silent e

      ier = long ē + r

      ies #1 = long īz

      ies #2 = ēz

      igh = long ī

      ing = ing

      io = long īō

      ious = long ē + us

      ion = yun

      ir = r

      ire = long ī + r

      ise = long ī + z

      jua = whä

      kn = n (silent k)

      le = ul

      mb = m (silent b)

      mn = m (silent n)

      ng = ng

      o #1 = long ō

      o #2 = ôô

      o #3 = u

      o_e #1 = long ō_silent e

      o_e #2 = u_silent e

      oa #1 = long ō

      oa #2 = ä

      oar = long ō + r

      oe = long ō

      oi = oi

      ol = long ō + l

      on #1 = un

      on #2 = won

      oo = long ōō

      oo #2 = ôô (book)

      oo #3 = ōō/ôô

      oo #4 = u

      oor = long ō + r

      or #1 = or

      or #2 = er

      ore = long ōR

      otion = long ō + shun

      ou & oul #1 = ōō

      ou #2 = ow

      ou #3 = long ō

      ou #4 = u

      ough #1 = ō

      ough #2 = ou

      ough #3 = ät

      ough #4 = long ōō

      ough #5 = uf

      our #1 = our

      our #2 = long ō+r

      our #3 = r

      ous = us

      ove = long öö + v (silent e)

      ow #1 = ow

      ow #2 = long ō

      oy = oi

      per = pr

      pn = n (silent p)

      ph = f

      pre = pr + long ē

      pro #1 = prä

      pro #2 = pr + long ō

      ps = s (silent p y = ī)

      qu = kw

      qua = kwä que = kwe

      re = r + long ē

      sc = s (silent c)

      se = long vowel + z

      sh = sh

      shion=shun

      sion=shun

      silent t = ŧ

      ssion = shun

      sure = shr

      tch = ch (silent t)

      th #1 = th

      th #2 = th

      th #3 = thu (non-phonetic)

      tion = shun

      tune = chn

      ture #1 = chr

      tur/ture #2 = tyōōr

      u #1 = û

      u #2 = ü (ue)

      u #3 = long ū

      u #4 = silent u

      u_e = ü (silent e)

      ue #1= ōō

      ue #2 = eu

      uge = euj

      ugh #1 = f

      ugh #2 = eu

      ui #1= ōō

      ui #2 = long ī

      ur #1 = r

      ur #2 = er + long e

      ur #3 = uer

      ure = yōōr

      use = long ū + z

      uy = long ī

      silent w

      wa #1 = wä

      wa #2 = wa

      war = wR (name of R)

      wh = wh

      who = hōō

      wo #1 = wû

      wo #2 = wun

      wor = wr

      y #1 = long ē

      y #2 = i

      y #3 = long ī

      yr = ur

      yre = long ī + r

      WORDS THAT ESCAPE ALL RULES

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      A logical manual for:

      1.   Parents and teachers of reading to small children.

      2.   Foreigners who wish to pronounce English correctly.

      3.   Spelling teachers.

      4.   Writers of books for children who need to know which words are appropriate for which reading level.

      5.   Teachers of children with learning disabilities.

      6.   Computer programmers who wish to program their computers to teach reading and spelling.

      7. English-speaking people who wish to know how to pronounce the sounds in Spanish of the ll, rr and the ñ.

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      I have been working for more than 20 years with Beverley as she developed her guide. We designed material to be used with the lists as she added words, phrases and more combinations of sounds. The material enabled the children to construct correctly their ongoing knowledge of reading and comprehension step by step. Although most of our children are non-native English speakers, they read with correct pronunciation and a very high level of English reading comprehension.

      My daughter continued through Beverley’s Elementary school and is now in England where she amazes people with her impressive pronunciation and reading of English. All of her friends that were together through our Kinder and Elementary school equally excel in reading and pronouncing English.

      Claudia Capon, Director of the Christa McAuliffe Montessori School, Mexico City

      Also by the author:

      The Secret of the Haunted Hacienda

      Lucifer

      The Mystery of the Tarascan Ruins

      The Monarch Mystery

      10 Horses and a Pony

      El Dorado

      Love’s End

      And Then

      Silversuit

      Written under her pen name, B. Palma

      Contact author at her web page and blog: www.paloalto-bilingual-adventures.com

      To the hundreds of children who have

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