Tips re quiet / quite spelling

[BeaLola]

DS gets these two words the wrong way round and can't find a way to remember eg no acronym - any suggestions welcome please

Perhaps get him to pronounce "quiet" by emphasising the "et" sound at the end.

I have plenty of words I pronounce oddly in my head to aid spelling. Like "sep-a-rate-ly" which I would normally pronounce "sep-er-ately" which of course, is wrong.

I was always taught that you put the e inside the word to keep it quiet. Or words to that effect.

I always tell children I teach that the "I am in the middle of the letters to keep them quiet"

That should have said to keep the vowels separate and quiet! Pressed enter too soon!

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Unfortunately it won't help with quite and quiet.

I would take honeys advice and emphasise the et in quiet. Encourage him to break quiet into 2 syllables qui - /k/ /w/ /ie/ + /e/ /t/

Quite is just one syllable /k/ /w/ /ie/ /t/

After that it's familiarity

ET had to keep quiet so he wouldn't be caught. (If he has seen ET of course.)

I bET you can't keep quiet.

Keep quiET or I'll put you in a nET.

He took quite a bite.

It's quite a good day to fly your kite.

My own children were taught the ET mnemonic but found younger kids don't know who ET is

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