1Raise Awareness of the Pronunciation-spelling RelationshipChildren are never too young to learn that pronunciation and spelling are closely interrelated. Students should know that spelling is rarely faithfully reflected in pronunciation. For instance, Wednesday is pronounced ˈwenz-(ˌ)dā, where the first ‘d’ is silent. This lack of complete letter-to-sound matching is the case for many more words than we would like to admit, such as Worcester, the name of an English city which, to many students’ surprise, is pronounced ˈwu̇s-tər.It’s important to make students aware of how differences in spelling affect pronunciation. For instance, moral and morale are stressed differently when spoken out loud, and this is a clue they can use to learn to understand which spelling to use for which concept.Moral - /ˈmȯr-əl/, the stress is on the first syllable Morale - /mə-ˈral/, the stress is on the second syllableOther words worth paying attention to are word pairs like cube/cub and pan/pane. It’s best to pair such words when teaching them to ensure that for each word, spelling and pronunciation are learned together.Another way to reinforce spelling and pronunciation is to teach similarly spelled words in sets. For instance, the sentence "The farmer’s crop didn’t yield as expected and he feared the King’s Knights would wield their swords to collect the tax" help students memorize the letter patterns as well as the sounds. You can also choose to contrast the pronunciation of words that are spelled with the same letter groupings, as with the sentence "Adding too much flour will make the dough too tough to work with. Such sentences emphasize that even if these words eye-rhyme, (seem as though they have the same sound) they don’t.In this manner, even if the student forgets say how to spell morale, knowing its pronunciation will more likely help the student retrieve/recall the correct spelling form.