Anyone got any tips to help me teach my DS to distinguish between these two words when reading? He usually gets the right word if it's in text cos he gets the context but if the word is on its own, he just says "where" for "were". We've been doing it now for exactly a fortnight today and sometimes I think we've cracked it, ask him again an hour later and we're back to square 1!!
He's usually very good with learning words quickly but just gets stuck on those two. I've tried emphasizing the aspirate "wh" at the beginning of "where" as opposed to "were" but he still sounds out "were" and it comes out as "where". And I'm trying desperately desperately NOT to be exasperated now ....
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Helping DS distinguish between where and were
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squashpie · 09/10/2009 20:43
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