No more "i before e"--it's just too hard.
But if Charlie Brown could handle it...
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1 comments:
Wow. When I read this at first, I thought you meant they were getting rid of the rule altogether. They just weren't going to bother with ie or ei, whichever way would be fine. Whew. That's a relief.
By the way, our phonics program calls these "patterns" rather than "rules" since so few of them are hard and fast. I like that.
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