Concepts/rules
When a one-syllable word ends in a short vowel immediately followed by f, l, s, and sometimes z, these letters are doubled and have a special name. What sound do they have?
What are bonus letters? What is no sound?
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FORMATIVE
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On your whiteboard, mark the following words by circling the suffix, scooping the word without the suffix, and writing the sound the suffix makes above it.
INSPECTED RESNELLED VANISHED
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Open syllable exceptions love two of the vowels which are...
This is where they are located in a word.
What is 'a' and 'i'?
What is the beginning, end, or both for 'a'?
What is in the middle of a multisyllabic word for 'i'?
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vuddle
muzle
chestle
thumple
stodle
bostle
blefle
shobbles
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"dge" and "tch" are called this and are special letters in a word. They only follow a certain vowel sound.
What is a trigraph? What is a short vowel sound?
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BUSTLE
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Mark the sounds for the vowel y in each word.
spry dizzy cyclone
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The letter 'e' is a very busy letter indeed. Three jobs of this letter are...
What is v-e words?
What is to end a word following the letter v?
What is to distinguish a word from a plural?
What is the vowel in a final stable syllable: c-le?
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stengil occint plogy
trinpoce dilgene cynet
regage celtone
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These words have a double consonant. The job of the double is...
ripple
shoddy
bozzle
What is to close in the first syllable so it has a short vowel sound?
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INDULGE
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Write the letter(s) that make the /j/ sound. Write /j/ above those letters.
PLEDGE
REVENGE
JOLTED
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Suffix -es makes words plural that end in these letter or letters. Name three.
What is ch, sh, s, ss, x or zz?
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indalled resnelled vabished
closhed inbucted flommeled
blaxed emtosted
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These two letters make their soft sound when followed by e, i, or y.
What is c and g?
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MINIMIZE
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Many different letters say /ē/.
What is e-e, e, y at the end of a multisyllabic word?
These words have prefixes or suffixes. Write them down.
MISSPELLINGS
REINVESTMENTS
SHAMELESSLY
What is mis-, -ing, -s?
What is re-, -ment, -s?
What is -less, -ly?
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floment demest thibselt
plabbid tinzomp splagtop
zentlish plaggosh
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There are two ways to spell the /f/ sound.
What is f and ph?
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photocopy
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Many different letters say /ŭ/.
What is u - closed syllable, sometimes schwa, and a and i in an open syllable exception?
A digraph blend can occur at the beginning or end of a word. Write an example of each.
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capsate filkipe laxtile
dispote explobe doselit
endame colgrone
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