Working with Words & Active Participation

Consonant Pairs Label Quiet Noisy Lip Poppers /p/ /b/ Tongue Tappers /d/ Tongue Scrapers /k/ /g/ Lip Coolers /f/ /v/ Tongue Coolers /th/ Skinny Air /s/ /z/ Fat Air /sh/ /zh/ Fat-pushed Air /ch/ /j/

Other Consonant Groups Label Consonant Group Nose sounds /m/ /n/ /ng/ Wind sounds /w/ /h/ /wh/ Lifters /l/ /r/ Borrowers ‘c’ ‘x’ ‘qu’ ‘y’

Vowel Circle: Try this… Place your hand under your chin and say only the vowel phoneme in each of these words. meet, ick, egg, ape, am, up, Tom, Paul, foe, book, loot Did you feel it?

The Vowel Circle

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Using Felts for Syllable Segmentation and Sequencing Use felts to represent the syllables in a word Learn to listen for the accented syllable chamber

Speaking of GK… White side is all consonant sounds Digraphs Colored side is all vowel sounds Green cards- short vowels Blue cards- diphthongs Yellow cards- long vowels

Closed Syllable ends with a consonant has only one vowel that is usually short Open Syllable ends with a vowel has only one vowel that is usually long vCe Syllable has one vowel followed by a consonant and a silent ‘e’ vowel is usually long r-Controlled Syllable has a vowel followed by ‘r’; ‘r’ makes the vowel say something different Vowel Team Syllable has a group of two or more vowels side by side usually ends with a consonant Consonant + le Syllable is always at the end of a word; ‘e’ is silent Final Stable Syllable is always at the end of a word; is non-decodable but predictable

Things to Remember Do not ‘card’ Prefixes (we know those) Suffixes (we know those too) Consonant+le or Final Stable (they are non-decodable, but predictable) Each felt represents a syllable (use felts 1st, then ‘card’) If you experience the same phoneme in a word, turn another colored card over to represent the second sound