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MAKING SMART USE OF SOUNDS & SPELLING PATTERNS

In this lesson plan we are going to help children hear the sounds in words by developing phonemic awareness, and then exploring sound/symbol relationships and

spelling patterns. There are three strategies we will be going over; Developing Phonemic Awareness, Exploring Sounds and Discovering

Spelling Patterns.

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STRATEGY 1: DEVELOPING PHONEMIC AWARENESS

We are going to be selecting words that we are used to from books, rhymes, songs and so on, and discover together how knowing one word can help with the

recognition or writing of others, just by changing the beginning letters.

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EXAMPLE: FROM READING THIS RHYME, WRITE THE WORDS THAT SOUND THE SAME ON A CHART

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is gone,

When the nothing shines upon,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveller in the dark,

Thanks you for your tiny spark,

He could not see which way to go,

If you did not twinkle so.

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HOW WILL THIS HELP YOU WITH YOUR READING AND WRITING?

Star High Gone

Are Sky Upon

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STRATEGY 2: EXPLORING SOUNDSWe are going to

discover how different sounds can

be written by rereading a familiar book. We are then going to list on a

chart; for example words with a /k/ sound: kite, cat,

school, bike, truck, cake, back. We are

going to identify the letter(s) that

represent this sound.

For example:• Kite, bike, cake• Cat, Cake• School, Christine• Truck, back

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STRATEGY 3: DISCOVER SPELLING PATTERNSWe will now be thinking about what a

word looks like in a useful spelling strategy, we are going to explore some common spelling patterns together by rereading a familiar book, selecting a particular spelling pattern to look for.

For example, look for and list words with ea, such as: bead, bread, dead, instead, great, read, treat, break

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EXAMPLE:

Identify and underline the ea spelling pattern in each word, say the words, and group them according to their pronunciation such as:

Bead, read, treat

Bread, dead, instead, read

Great, break

Select one of the words and show how knowing it can help with the spelling of other words in that word family. For example, great: greater, greatest, greatly

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