The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English

By Beverly Blount

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468547184

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

by

Beverley Blount

2nd Edition

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Published by AuthorHouse    03/15/2014

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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

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