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Mark's spelling maze 'ou'

Mark's spelling maze 'ou' - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/marks-spelling-maze-ou
You have to get from house to out only stepping on stones with that same vowel sound. Trouble is, all of the words contain the treacherous vowel digraph OU, which has many other pronunciations apart from the 'out' vowel. So it's a phonic awareness game!

Mark's spelling mazes 'i'

Mark's spelling mazes 'i' - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/marks-spelling-mazes-i
This maze focuses on the single letter i, and how it's pronounced. Short vowel usually, but not when it's in a vowel digraph, a 'magic e', and 'r' and a few other oddities. Note that the 'magic e' rule doesn't work in the case of 'give', for some reason.

Mark's spelling maze 'ea'

Mark's spelling maze 'ea' - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/marks-spelling-maze-ea
This maze focuses on the vowel digraph 'ea'. Usuailly, this represents the /i:/ sound, as in 'teach', but there are also plenty of exceptions which often trip learners up, like 'pear'!

Mark's spelling maze 'a'

Spelling Mazes - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/spelling-mazes
The vowel sound in FAT is usually spelt with the single vowel letter ‘a’. Sadly, the opposite is not true: sometimes a single letter ‘a’ may be pronounced as a different vowel sound.

PronPack 6: Pronunciation of English for Brazilian Learners

PronPack 6: Pronunciation of English for Brazilian Learners - hancockmcdonald.com/books/titles/pronpack-6-pronunciation-english-brazilian-learners

PronPack 6: Pronunciation of English for Brazilian Learners provides materials for 18 lessons focusing on common difficulties faced by Portuguese-speaking learners.

Woman and Wolf

Woman and Wolf - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/woman-and-wolf

The English phoneme /w/ presents difficulties for learners from a wide range of language backgrounds, but not always for the same reason. Some pronounce the /w/ like a /v/ so that west becomes vest. Others interpret it as a vowel sound, so that woman becomes ooman.

PronPack 5: Pronunciation of English for Spanish Speakers

PronPack 5: Pronunciation of English for Spanish Speakers - hancockmcdonald.com/books/titles/pronpack-5-pronunciation-english-spanish-speakers

PronPack 5: Pronunciation of English for Spanish Speakers provides materials for 18 lessons focusing on common difficulties faced by Spanish-speaking learners.

Rabbit in a Hat

Rabbit in a Hat - hancockmcdonald.com/node/616/edit

This rap is great for practising connected speech - see video here! Consonant to vowel links are indicated, plus one vowel to vowel link.

Squabbles

Squabbles - hancockmcdonald.com/node/615/edit

A phrase usually has one word which is stressed more than the rest. Normally it is the last content word of the phrase. For example, the normal stress on You never help me is on help. It’s not on me because me is not a content word but a function word.

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