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Is it ee or ea?

  and other facts you didn’t know you needed to know! The question of when to use these two spellings of /ē/ is never-ending. Why do we have two so closely related spellings of /ē/? These two spellings of /ē/ are...

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Why are there two ways to write /w/?

Why are there two ways to write /w/? Is that a <w> or <wh>? How often have you heard that from your student? How do you explain the difference? Do they really sound different? Let’s take a deep dive into...

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