Reading & Spelling Teacher Training Section 5.3
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We are going to say it to spell human , -hu-man,
Now if your are a native English speaker
and you are wondering about this,just follow along I think you are going to find something kind of open up for you
So let´s go ahead, say to spell –hu-man
How many syllables? two
the first syllable is –hu, -h , -u , the second syllable is –man, -m,-a, -n
Go ahead and write it
And as you said it sound it out
and then let´s help me to write it
First syllable is –hu, -h, -u
Second syllable is –man, -m, -a, -n
And what did they –u say here? It´s that is long sound so open a line, all right?
And well say to spell again; -hu, -man
But what do we usually say? Human
Now in English, this is a place where we can begin to use morphology
Because the accent its syllable is –hu
and this is actually –schwa sound which we´ll discuss later about
Just for your help right now schwa sound an unaccented vowel sound
So what you´ll notice here though, is that man and human are related in meaning
and we can draw out for our students how they are related in meaning
and that´s why the spelling is preserved to that way
You might also be interesting to now that in a word like humanity
I can write it for you here
that your clearly
Here this –a sound in humanity
So we can find the derivative humanity and this vowel sound here is clearly articulated as an -a
So this is part of the morphophonemic in nature English
Where in number eight, would be woman
I know that women from work, woman
We are going to say to spell
Yes you guessed it; -wo, -man
That´s some kind of funny, I think
So let´s say to spell –wo-men and two syllabus