Teaching Reading with Words in Color
Those words in parentheses in the schema are among those not appearing on Word Chart 2, but which may be created in the mind through this game as well as through Visual Dictation 1 on the chalkboard. 7 We can obtain steps from stops by substitution of e for o. We can also get it by starting with pat, making it pet by substitution of e for a, then pets by addition of s, then step by reversal, and finally steps by addition of s. Word Chart 2 displays the words past and pest, obtainable from pat and pet respectively, by insertion of the “curly green� between the last two signs of each. By a substitution, test can be derived from pest, or from pet by insertion and substitution. It is important to note that it is allowed in our game to pass from pat to pass, since one sign with one sound (ss) is substituted for another with a different sound (t). It is also correct to go from pass to past by addition, since in this case ss and s are both signs standing for the same sound and so may be used interchangeably as the conventional spelling of any given word dictates. This will be the beginning of the discovery that in English almost any letter can be a silent or mute letter in some word. This schema shows the links just described: i
indicates insertion
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