I hope one of these lessons is helpful. **beginner English (silent E)** Reading Crash Course Lesson 4: kzbin.info/www/bejne/immUhoFogc6UmtU Reading Bootcamp Level 2, Lesson 5: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pne1hKqvl9-Firs **65 Lesson Reading Bootcamp** Lessons 1-50: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5C3mJxonaiibtE Lessons 51-65: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ-rgJxuZq6Cj80 **for very long English words** Tackle Long Words Quick Start Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2fGgXxrqbd0oJY

No, I don't currently have an app or website. I may have a website in the future.

I'm so glad they are helping you! I'm working on a longer video about the schwa, so be on the lookout for that.

@OneMinuteReadingTutor Sounds good. Looking forward to watching the videos. Have a great Saturday!

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Thank you, I will.

Thanks. I have one I can use now.

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Wonderful! I'm so glad to hear that parents are finding their own reading improve, as well as their children's. Please let me know if there are any topics I haven't covered yet that you think would help adults.

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Good question! I looked up the etymology (history of a word) and found that it's "from Old French jalos/gelos 'keen, zealous; avaricious; jealous'." You can see the entry here: www.etymonline.com/word/jealous

@OneMinuteReadingTutor thank you It isn't the suffix that form the word jealous then

It’s pronounced like the suffix, but it doesn’t seem to be an actual suffix here.

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I'm not away of any rule about it. I suggest learning -IARY as a suffix even if it doesn't seem to appear on official lists of suffixes.

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@@OneMinuteReadingTutor Insha'Allah, sister, 🙏🏻don't worry. I will tell everyone about your beautiful channel.

I'm glad you found it helpful!

I have many videos about these on my Syllable Division playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL3sqnoXRuBAv5lO1F4IJzdyFjlIhMvxD9

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That's wonderful! I'm so glad you found it helpful. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.

Thanks! I hope to have lesson 4 up in the next week.

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I'm working on more videos, so stay tuned!

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Definitely. If they are accenting the wrong syllables, it can make them very hard to understand.

One thing is that California has a larger percent of English language learners than most states. Aside from that, it looks like schools in California were very anti-phonics for decades. I know nothing about this organization, but a quick search found this article. californiapolicycenter.org/reports/californias-literacy-crisis/ Here's an except. "But literacy coach Margaret Goldberg, hired by Oakland Unified School District as a teacher in 2015, describes her experience using Leveled Literacy Intervention as disheartening. She observed a first grade student say a sentence completely different from the words on the page. He was relying on the pictures since he could not decode the words. But he “breezed right through it, unaware that he hadn’t read the sentence on the page.” Goldberg realized that “lots” of students were in the same boat with that curriculum. She then switched to a phonics-based curriculum called Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words. The result? Goldberg’s students learned how to sound out the words and became proficient readers. " The "Sold a Story" podcast episodes go into more detail. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ I haven't listened to all of them, but I think I listened to the first episode a few years ago. What stuck out in my mind was that education professors decided that teaching kids letter sounds (phonics) was old-fashioned and boring, so they began selling reading programs to schools without this skill. Imagine if math books taught that students had to memorize every math problem separately instead of teaching them how to do it! There is simply no way for students to memorize tens of thousands of English words as sight words. This approach means kids get stuck at a low reading level. The other thing I remember from the episode I listened to was the example of having kids rely on pictures to "read." If the book had a picture of a cat and the student said "cat" instead of the word "kitty" if that's what the text said, teachers were told NOT to correct the student.

As for solutions, students need to be systematically be taught phonics for years. Math teachers wouldn't be allowed to get away with saying students need to memorize 123x14 rather than knowing how to solve the problem because learning how to do the problem is "boring" or "old-fashioned." Unfortunately, I suspect we are multiple generations removed from the average elementary school teacher being trained in how to teach phonics. Homeschoolers use phonics though because the parents can more easily see if their kids can actually read or not.

I just did a quick search and found this: www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/16/graduated-not-literate They found in 2003 that only 25% of college graduates (and 31% of students with at least some grad school courses) scored as "proficient" in on a literacy test based on the ability to read newspaper articles, follow directions, and other tasks like that. Scores for every level of education were down in 2003 compared to 1992.

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Good idea! I'll make a blending video this weekend.

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gauXoH-AiZqnb6s