Handy English Encoder Decoder: All the Spelling and Phonics Rules You Could Ever Want to Know - Softcover

Harvey Bluedorn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974361623 ISBN 13: 9780974361628

Publisher: Trivium Pursuit, 2004

Synopsis

Take the mystery out of spelling and reading! Is it their, they're, or there; accept or except; advice or advise? What are the five ways the j sound can be spelled? These questions and more are answered in Trivium Pursuit's newest book Handy English Encoder Decoder: All the Spelling and Phonics Rules You Could Ever Want to Know by Harvey Bluedorn. English spelling employs several different and sometimes complex codes and rules for representing sounds. How this all works is a mystery to many people. Encoder Decoder solves this mystery by conveniently arranging these codes and rules in an easy and accessible format. Students, teachers, writers, and speakers will find the Encoder Decoder handy for looking up any spelling or phonics rule. Encoder Decoder collects in one place what is needed to become a better speller and a more proficient reader. This one little volume contains: * more than 60 categorized spelling rules; * over 200 phonics rules; * rules for dividing words into syllables; * commonly confused spellings and word pairs; * spelling and phonics games; and much more.

About this title

About the Author

Author Harvey Bluedorn and his wife Laurie started homeschooling their children in the late 70's and have given workshops on homeschooling and classical education for support groups and at conventions across the country. Their publishing company, Trivium Pursuit, produces books and curricula to help parents use classical education in their homeschool. Harvey Bluedorn has also authored A Greek Alphabetarion, A Greek Hupogrammon, Homeschool Greek Volume I, Homeschool Greek Volume II (currently in beta version -- 2008), Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline, A Basic Exegetical and Expository Grammar of Biblical Greek, Vocabulary Bridges from English to Latin and Greek, Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style, and Stephanus 2000 in Unicode: The Traditional Greek Text with Full Diacritical Markings. The Bluedorns live in New Boston, Illinois.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trivium Pursuit
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974361623
• ISBN 13: 9780974361628
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 101