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Pronunciation and spelling
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
0 of 21 building blocks practised
Covered
Gap
Grade 5/6
- Phonetic transcription (gap, no app yet)
- Vowel sounds (gap, no app yet)
- Consonants th, w, v, r (gap, no app yet)
- Voiced final consonants (gap, no app yet)
- Pronouncing -s and -ed endings (gap, no app yet)
- Silent letters (gap, no app yet)
- Intonation (gap, no app yet)
- Contractions (gap, no app yet)
- Spelling changes before endings (gap, no app yet)
- Capital letters (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
- Sounds and spelling patterns (gap, no app yet)
- Intonation in question tags (gap, no app yet)
- Word stress (gap, no app yet)
- Weak forms (gap, no app yet)
- Linking sounds (gap, no app yet)
- Sentence stress and rhythm (gap, no app yet)
- British and American pronunciation (gap, no app yet)
- British and American spelling (gap, no app yet)
- Commas (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10
Apps in this strand
Build an app for this strand
An app stays in one strand. It starts with one building block and grows along the learning path with each new version, for example from grade 5 to 10.