going to be talking about spelling and how we read or pronounce certain letter

combinations and we're talking today about something called the bossy R for

those of you who have children in about kindergarten or first grade you're

probably aware of this my daughter is studying it now so I thought I would

share it with you so what does the bossy R mean the bossy R means that when you

have UR or IR this R is super bossy and it is going to sound just like

ER so when we have UR IR ER the R is super bossy and you just say er

to say the er think of having your mouth in square tense lip shape

and then the tip of your tongue can either be pointing down with the back of

the tongue pulled up or the tip of the tongue flipped back just whatever you do

don't touch your teeth for that sound do not roll the tongue or move the tongue

just keep it nice and steady er so let's try some of these words turn burden hurt

nurse third girl bird first her term nerve serve so give it a try I know

people are going to notice the difference and I also think this will

really help you when you are trying to say you're out how to pronounce a word

and and having taught this to several of my students recently it's been very

very helpful in increasing their accuracy making them a lot clearer

because they're not reading the word they're pronouncing it the way that it

should be and not relying as much on saying every letter as a sound in the

word so best of luck to you and I will see you again soon okay