Fidel (spelling charts)

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These 8 charts present all of the spellings (graphemes) of each of the sounds of English arranged so that all the spellings of a given sound are in the same column.

It can immediately be seen, for example, that there are only 3 ways to spell "oy" but 12 to spell "you".

The learners, not the teacher, use these charts to point to the spellings of different words and learn from experience, not from memorization, which grapheme to choose, for example "i" in the middle of words and "y" at the end.

The color code is the same as that used in the Word Wall Charts.

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