C. Relate consonant sounds and vowel sounds to their most common spelling patterns (SAT10)

1. single consonant sounds (AL COS) (SAT 10)
2. consonant blends (AL COS) (SAT 10)
3. consonant diagraphs (AL COS) (SAT 10)
4. long vowel sounds (AL COS) (SAT 10)
5. short vowel sounds (AL COS) (SAT 10)
6. diphthongs and other vowel sounds (AL COS) (SAT 10)

The Two Voices of the ow Spelling Pattern
This lesson can be used as part of a series of lessons designed to show students how, in the English alphabet, each vowel represents a different set of sounds when used in different spelling patterns.

Making and Writing Words
For this lesson students are guided by their teacher in writing and sorting words using a limited set of letters.
 

Writing: Spice Up Your Spelling Words:  When rote doesn't work, it's time to reach into your bag of tricks to make spelling special , with this list of interesting things to do with spelling words.  

Words and Pictures:  This webpage, from the BBC, supports the highly successful U.K. schools' television program "Words and Pictures." It has fun activities, interactive games, lesson plans, texts, poems and more.

Dosity.com:  This site offers a word endings (rime) game and printable worksheets.

Jan Brett's Phonogram Word Cards:  This site offers phonogram (rime) cards in color with Jan Brett's illustrations.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Read one's own writing or simple narrative text and begin to produce phonemes appropriately.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know, and possibly use them in simple phrases or sentences.
D: Identify change in voice and expression in stories that are read by self and read aloud.
D: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand multi-syllabic words; E: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand new word families.
D, E: Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes to find meanings of unknown words.
D: Use synonyms and antonyms to demonstrate understanding of words; E: Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine meanings of words.
E: Identify and analyze sentence and context clues to find meanings of unknown words.
E: Read narrative and expository texts with change in voice and expression.
 

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