Please suggest any words you would like to see added to the Word Bank. Why do you think this word should be added?
Comments
Sandie Barrie-Blackley
Lexercise
Here are some recent Word-of-the-Day entries that I think would be good for (upper levels) of Lexercise:
1) matriculate \muh-TRIK-yuh-leyt\, verb: To enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
2) eidetic \ahy-DET-ik\, adjective: having a photographic memory for visual images
4) utopia /yoo-TOH-pee-uh/ . noun: An ideal place or state, often unrealistic
May 16, 2010 09:33
Sandie Barrie-Blackley
Lexercise
The r-controlled vowel sounds are easily confused by clients so we could use some more words contrasting them. Here are some minimal pair words contrasting <ar> versus... /ɝ/ spelled [<ur>, <ir> or <er>]
at Level 15 arc irk barley burly barn burn Bart Bert barn burn
card curd Carl curl cart curt dart dirt far fir fur farm firm farmer firmer farthest furthest fast first lark lurk mark murk par per purr parch perch park perk part pert
quark quirk scarf scurf shark shirk spar spur star stir
At Level 20: person, parson
At Level 24:purse, parse
June 06, 2010 15:01
Stephanie Rogister
Lexercise does not currently have any words beginning with the blend /squ/, such as squeak, squeal, squawk, squish, squelch, squirt.
Stephanie Rogister
October 11, 2010 11:10
Sandie Barrie-Blackley
Lexercise
Searching for "squa " , "sque" and "squi" in the data base (using [Ctrl + f]...... I find these words:
At Level 25 (because that's when this is addressed: The sound of <a> shifts to /ɑ/ after the phoneme /w/)
squawk
square
squelch
squall
squash
squat
At Level 11 :
squish
squid
At Level 13 (initial & final consonant blends) there is:
Comments
Here are some recent Word-of-the-Day entries that I think would be good for (upper levels) of Lexercise:
1) matriculate \muh-TRIK-yuh-leyt\, verb: To enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
2) eidetic \ahy-DET-ik\, adjective: having a photographic memory for visual images
4) utopia /yoo-TOH-pee-uh/ . noun: An ideal place or state, often unrealistic
The r-controlled vowel sounds are easily confused by clients so we could use some more words contrasting them. Here are some minimal pair words contrasting
<ar> versus... /ɝ/ spelled [<ur>, <ir> or <er>]
at Level 15arc irk
barley burly
barn burn
Bart Bert
barn burn
card curd
Carl curl
cart curt
dart dirt
far fir fur
farm firm
farmer firmer
farthest furthest
fast first
lark lurk
mark murk
par per purr
parch perch
park perk
part pert
quark quirk
scarf scurf
shark shirk
spar spur
star stir
Lexercise does not currently have any words beginning with the blend /squ/, such as squeak, squeal, squawk, squish, squelch, squirt.
Stephanie Rogister
Searching for "squa " , "sque" and "squi" in the data base (using [Ctrl + f]...... I find these words:
At Level 25 (because that's when this is addressed: The sound of <a> shifts to /ɑ/ after the phoneme /w/)
squawk
square
squelch
squall
squash
squat
At Level 11 :
squish
squid
At Level 13 (initial & final consonant blends) there is:
squelch
squinch
squint
At Level 15 :
squirm
squirt