Teaching R Controlled Vowels from Orton Gillingham Coaching

R-Controlled Vowels Get a Lesson in Being Bossy. How you teach them, tools for teaching them and guidelines for R-controlled vowels.
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[@muddy1084]

Love your focus and articulation outstanding.

[@ortongillinghamcoaching]

Thank you so much 😀

[@fredrouleau1380]

Question for you or your staff . Is there a single sheet reference guide For all reading and spelling rules? Thanks for your time have a good day love your work young lady 🤓

[@ortongillinghamcoaching]

Hi! The closest we come to a reference guide or one-sheet is the Scope & Sequence and in the Scope & Sequence workbooks there are broken down smaller scope & sequenced by each book . I have not created a one-sheet of rules. I'll think about what that could look like. I also use index cards for my students where I put each rule on an index card and punch a hole for a ring, so they have a ring of rules.

[@tricky_english]

If you want me to explain it, let me know

[@KhaViTran]

Can you explain the word "evaporate" and "effort", please? ( "OR" is in the middle of the word but we say /er/, not /or/)

[@ortongillinghamcoaching]

Hi, those sounds are because of the schwa where any vowel can take on the /u/ or short u sound. It can also happen in r-controlled vowels and it's a little different than a short u, but it's now an r-controlled schwa. Other examples are dollar or doctor. Even in the middle in a word like "effort" or "evaporate" a schwa can appear. The good thing is that when you hear that schwa, you can tell your student the schwa is never accented, so you can eliminate that syllable as the accented syllable. This is a video on Schwa: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3rYY3V6brV8gtU Please let me know if I can explain further. I'm happy to help!

[@KhaViTran]

Thanks a lot 🥰 I have one more question. How to know if it's a schwa sound or not? I understand the schwa is in the unstressed syllable, but my students don't know where to stress in new words (therefore don't know their part of speech). Are there any rules for the schwa sound, please?

[@ortongillinghamcoaching]

Unfortunately, the only rule I know for schwa is that if you have an "a" at the end of a word, like cola or umbrella, those will always be a schwa. The way I teach it is that all vowels say 3 sounds, short, long and schwa. This is just an introduction, and I consider schwa an ongoing lesson because you have to constantly point out words that have it. Most of the time the /u/ sound is fairly prominent, like kitten, tomato, lemon. Other times, it can be tricky. The main goal is to pronounce the word, be able to read it or break it down for pronunciation. If a student can do this by knowing the word from hearing it previously or can learn, we don't really say to-ma-to, we say t/u/, ma, to, it's all good. Here are 2 articles on schwa. One just goes through it (which you already know what it is) and the other is on activities you can do with schwa. #1: ogforall.com/schwa-happens/ #2: ogforall.com/activities-to-make-schwa-fun-and-engaging/

[@KhaViTran]

I'm absolutely indebted to you. This information has been invaluable in expanding my knowledge. I can't thank you enough for sharing this with me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ Wish you all the best 🥰😃

[@ortongillinghamcoaching]

@@KhaViTran Thank you very much for your kind words. It makes me so happy to know my work is meaningful. I'm always happy to answer questions and what I don't know we can find the best solution together.

[@fredrouleau1380]

Love your work let me buy you lunch

[@ortongillinghamcoaching]

Ha! I'm close to earning a donate button and would be grateful for a lunch. :-)

[@tricky_english]

There are NO R-colored vowels in rhotic accents.