Archive for October, 2012
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter i Posted by Gabriele on Oct 5, 2012
The next letter in this series looking at vowel sounds in English is the letter ‘i’. This is an interesting vowel because it is one of the only letters of the English alphabet that is a word in itself, as in the word for the first person pronoun in English ‘I’. The only other letter…
Fun facts about English words Posted by Gabriele on Oct 4, 2012
A while back I wrote a post about palindromes which are some really fun words in English. I thought today it would be interesting to look at some fun facts about words and letters in English in general. We speak, hear, and write words all the time, but it isn’t often we give them much…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter e Posted by Gabriele on Oct 2, 2012
Today we continue our look at the different vowel sounds in English by focusing on the letter ‘e.’ Before honing in on the short and long vowel sounds of the letter ‘e’ I want to introduce to you the concept of the silent ‘e’ in English. There are many words in English that end in…