1. Phonics Instruction III: Vowel Patterns Talkers, Whiners, and Much More!

2. Reviewing Short Vowels Change A Hen to A Fox
Find:
h, e, n, p, t, i, s, x, f, o

3. 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.

4. Seven Other Lessons For Changing A Hen To A Fox
pig rig rid rib rob Bob box fox
bug
dug
dig
pig
pin
pen
ten
hen
pig
big
wig
win
fin
fit
fat
cat
cat
bat
hat
rat
pat
pet
pen
hen
fox
box
bop
top
mop
map
mat
cat
bug
hug
dug
dig
big
bag
bat
cat
cat
hat
rat
rag
bag
big
dig
pig

5. 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

6. CONTEXTUALIZE the words you select for phonics instruction within quality literature

7. 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

8. ran get hot he my ti- her for -ger play read tried mouth claws books
Closed
Open
Magic e
Bossy R
Two Vowels
Talkers Whiners
C + le
Memory/Sight Words
ran
get
hot he my
ti-
her
for
-ger
play
read
tried
mouth
claws
books
came
made
terrible
nice
little
table
What’s the rule??

9. ran get hot he my ti- nice came made her for play mouth terrible -ger
Closed
Open
Magic e
Bossy R
Two Vowels
Talkers Whiners
C + le
Memory/Sight Words
????
????
????
ran
get
hot he my
ti-
nice
came
made
????
????
her
for
play
????
mouth
terrible
-ger
read
claws
little
tried
books
table

14. 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