Phonics Instruction III: Vowel Patterns

Talkers, Whiners, and Much More!

Reviewing Short VowelsChange A Hen to A Fox

Find: h, e, n, p, t, i, s, x, f, o

Change A Hen To A Fox

• H, e, n, p, t, i, s, x, f, o• Write hen. • Now change the hen to pen. • Now change your pen into a pet. • Can you change your pet to pit? • Now change pit to sit. • Next change sit to six. • Then change six to fix. • Finally, change fix to fox.

Seven Other Lessons For Changing A Hen To A Fox

pigrigridribrobBobboxfox

bugdugdigpigpinpentenhen

pigbigwigwinfinfitfatcat

catbathatratpatpetpenhen

foxboxboptopmopmapmatcat

bughugdugdigbigbagbatcat

cathatratragbagbigdigpig

Isabel Beck: Correspondence between two letter vowel

combinations and their phonemes• Connect a two-letter grapheme found within a

word with the phoneme the letters represent• Connect the printed letters with the phoneme.• Discriminate among words that may

“compete” with ea and ee words• Find: m, t, s, d, ee, ea to practice this lesson

CONTEXTUALIZE the words you select for phonics instruction within quality literature

Successive Blending

• Rather than s ….a…..t• s…a > sa > s…a > sa > sa…t > sat• Model individual sounds and blending procedure and

use finger cues• Child imitates the model with verbal & finger cues• Teacher repeats, but no sounds – only finger cues• Child performs pointing, sounding, and blending steps• Try this out with some of today’s ee/ea words

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Bossy R Two VowelsTalkers Whiners

C + le

Memory/Sight Words

ran get hot he my ti- her for -ger play

read tried

nice

mouth books

little terrible

came claws made

table What’s the rule??

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Bossy R Two VowelsTalkers Whiners

C + le

Memory/Sight Words

ran get hot he my ti-

her for

-ger play

read

tried

nice

mouth

books

little

terrible

came

claws

made

table

???? ???? ????

???? ???? ????

Homework and Reminders

• For Thursday: WTW Ch. 6 (Within Word Stage) and **Beck & McKeown Text Talk (on class wiki)

• This Weekend: • Reading Guide #2: due March 2– Words Their Way, Chapter 4: Word Sorts– Tompkins: Developing Word Recognition & Fluency

• Literacy Photo Journal: due March 4• Spelling Inventory WTW, p. 270: due March 11