Francisco TP-10

My little brother and I went over some more of his vocabulary words yesterday before his spelling bee on Friday. He seems to understand the majority of the vocabulary words but I can tell he stumbles on words that have two letter such as the word "blossom." He asked me if there are any pointers I can give him in order to succesfully spell the word correctly. It took me a while a to come up with one but I told him that the word sounds as if the word s is stressed a little more than usual. I asked him to repeat the word and pronounce it as blo-sssss-om. I told him since that the s's seem to stress out more than usual, this would mean that he should include a double s while spelling the word. I mentioned that words that the majority of English words that use a word more that two times in the word so I assumed this would be a safe tip to give him. We went over some other words such as "delicious" and "eraser" before I asked him to spell the word "blossom" once again. It was actually pretty funny how the tackled on the task. He began by saying bloh-sssssssooom. Since the word seemed to prolong the letter "s" he decided to include two s's this time and spelled it correctly. I was not sure if this was the best way to tackle on this word but it seemed to work well with him and he nailed its spelling every time I repeated the word. For the remanding time of our tutoring session I asked him to use some of the vocabulary words in a sentences such as "parking" and "eraser." Once again, he took a while to formulate a valid sentence but over time, he was able to say simple sentences such as "I am parking my bicycle" and "I don't like erasers." The spelling bee is to be held on Friday at 8:00 am and I am plan on being among the spectators to encourage my little brother and see how well my tutoring sessions helped my little brother.