Once you know the basic vowels and consonants, it is simple and straightforward to apply this writing any word you can say. There is an easy techniques that you can use over and over to know how to spell in CRESS. Elongate the sounds. Count the sounds. Identify the sounds. Write the sounds.
- Take any word you want to spell in CRESS. The word ‘bean, for example.
- Say it once quickly then stretch it out a lot saying it very slowly so each sound is exaggerated.
- b……..ea………n….. Elongate the SOUNDS, not the individual letters.
- Do this to hear the individual sounds.
- Count how many sounds you hear. Try these: Weight = 3 = w e^ t, Eight = 2 = e^ t, Strait = 5 = s t r e^ t
- Then take each sound, compare and match it to the sounds in the CRESS vowels and consonants you have memorized.
- As you find each matching sound, you will know how to write it, and as you finish, the whole word.
- Success: we hear the stretched out word ‘bean’ has the sounds b i^ n, so that’s how CRESS writes it.