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  • Hello Jennifer from Tarle speech  with your two for Tuesday!

  • It's actually a bonus day, three  for Tuesday. These are homophones,  

  • words that are spelled differently, have different  meanings, but are pronounced the same way.

  • We have three words today

  • ceiling which is an overhead interior surface sealing which is a coat  

  • to protect a surface or to close securely and this one I didn't know 

  • seeling means to sew the eyes  of a falcon shut for training

  • It's very uncommon but it is a different  spelling so I added that for you. Um,  

  • so to say these words correctly we're going  to think about two beats in this word.  

  • I wrote two l's here on purpose because recently  I've been hearing a lot of mistakes with the  

  • l. And so I'm going to teach this a little bit  differently today and see if that helps you all.

  • So let's start with thatsound. Tip of the tongue is down,  

  • um, or it is behind the top front teeth. Air is  moving out of the mouth. Move to that long e e.  

  • Tongue is high and flat and tense in the mouthand you're going to smile for that vowel. E.

  • And then touch the tip of your tongue to the  back of your top front teeth. Specifically,  

  • to the spot where your teeth meet the  skin on the roof roof of your mouth.

  • seal

  • Now syllable number two. I'm teaching it as lingTechnically, there's only one l in this word;  

  • however, for some people this is helping  them because you are going to keep your  

  • tongue there when you end syllable number oneseal, then when you pull your tongue down,  

  • some people hear another l. That's fine. I don't care. Just make sure that you  

  • move from the l into that ing part of the wordAnd to do that, we're gonna have a short i  

  • the tip of your tongue is going to be behind  your top front teeth. Then it's going to move  

  • to the bottom of your mouth with the back  of the tongue pulled way high up for that  

  • ng sound. That's two letters, one sound, and the  air is going to move out of your nose. ling ling.

  • Let's put it all together

  • seal ling seel ling 

  • sealing ceiling sealing  

  • ceiling ceiling sealing ceiling

  • And now for a sentence: The business is  closed because they are sealing the ceiling.

  • Give it a try people will notice the  difference. If you found this helpful  

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  • Thanks everyone have a great week!

Hello Jennifer from Tarle speech  with your two for Tuesday!

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