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. t e phonic study for students who need c o An intensive practice and . consolidationc with vowel blends and digraphs. e he r o t r s s r u e p Can be used with individual students or in a remedial literacy program.

Written by Milanda Reynolds © Ready-Ed Publications - 2005 Published by Ready-Ed Publications (2005) P.O. Box 276 Greenwood Western Australia 6024 Email: info@readyed.com.au Website: www.readyed.com.au

COPYRIGHT NOTICE Permission is granted for the purchaser to photocopy sufficient copies for non-commercial educational purposes. However, this permission is not transferable and applies only to the purchasing individual or institution.

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Contents Teachers’ Notes Direct Teaching

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Word Meanings Curriculum Links

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ay .......................................... 10 ay .......................................... 11 ay .......................................... 12 ay ........................................ 13 ay - Review .......................... 14

air are.................................................... 15 air are .................................................... 16 air are - Review .................................... 17

eer ear.................................................. 32 eer ear ear.................................................. 33 eer ear - Review .................................. 34

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a ............................................................... 7 Review (Story) ..........................................8 Review (Questions) .................................9

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Teachers’ Notes The Essential Phonics series is designed for use with students working at middle primary levels and for older children that struggle with spelling and reading basics.

The activities are designed to help children identify and distinguish the many combinations of vowel sounds (graphs, digraphs and trigraphs) that make up the English language. It contains a range of concrete worksheets and review sheets that will aid children in their spelling and reading. This book can be used on its own or in conjunction with other existing phonic programs.

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This book can be used by teachers, parents and/or tutors, and in a variety of ways:

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Fitted into your daily or weekly literacy program; Used to help children who are struggling with spelling or reading; As revision work sheets; In conjunction with a language program (e.g. THRASS) or other phonic programs; • Homeschooling; • Tutoring.

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How you choose to use the book will vary depending on the child or students you are working with.

There is no set order that needs to be followed. You may choose to work through this book from the beginning to the end in the alphabetical phonic order as it is set out, or select specific sounds groups that the children are experiencing difficulty with.

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Whichever way you choose to use the activities, the book will prove to be an asset not only to you, but to the students completing the sheets.

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If the book is used for children who are clearly experiencing learning difficulties with their spelling and reading, it is recommended that you try working through the sheets using the direct teaching method as outlined on page 5.

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Other titles in this series: Essential Phonics: More Vowels Essential Phonics: Consonants

Acknowledgements The author would like to thank her husband and the staff at Mundaring Christian College for their support and encouragement in the production of the Essential Phonics Series.

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Direct Teaching 1. Establish the sound that is made by the phonemes in the group you are working with, i.e.

“ar ” as in chart

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2. Before commencing the sheet, you may like to conduct a word brainstorm on the board. Students think of as many words as they can that contain the sound you are studying.

3. SHEET - Ask student/s to circle the sound in the box at the top of the sheet you are working though.

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4. Read each word and ask student/s to repeat each word after you. mistakes straight away. )

5. Students then circle the sound they are working on in that word and put a tick in the box after the word, to show they have said the word correctly.

6. Children are then asked to print the word.

7. Put in the missing phoneme sound.

8. Write the sounds in each word.

9. It is important that students work across the line, completing each step before moving on to the next word.

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10. When these steps have been completed, work through the rest of the sheet using this method.

• Say each new word, asking student/s to repeat. Remember, to correct any mistakes immediately.

• Circle the phoneme sound in each new word.

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11. Correct each section as you go along, calling on different students to read their answer or parts of the worksheet.

12. When a set of phoneme sheets are completed, the children can then complete the review sheet that accompanies each of the phoneme groups.

Some Review Sheets can be worked on without too much assistance, but others will need the direct teaching method to be used.

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Curriculum Links The activities in this book link to the following strands of the English curriculum.

Spelling Outcomes • Segments words into individual sounds and forms letters that relate to their sounds; • Writes words using blends, letter combinations and vowel sounds; • Draws on knowledge of sight words and high frequency words when writing texts; • Understands common letter patterns and letter-sound correspondences.

New South Wales - English Stage 2 Strand: Writing; Learning to Write - Skills and Strategies

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WS2.10 - Grammar and Punctuation; WS2.11 - Spelling.

Strand: Reading; Learning to Read - Skills and Strategies

RS2.6 - Grammatical information; Graphological and Phonological Information.

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2.11 - Identifies and uses basic linguistic structures and features of written language.

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- English Level 2 Strand: Writing: Aspects of Language - Linguistic Structures and Features

- English Level 2 Strand: Reading and Viewing - OP2.2 Students draw on generic structure, textural resources used to organise and link

ideas, elements of visual resources and sound, visual and meaning patterns in words.

Strand: Writing and Shaping - OP2.3 Students draw on sound and visual patterns to spell unfamiliar words.

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- English Level 2

Strand: Strategies - 2.12 Selects and uses a variety of strategies for consistently spelling most common words accurately.

Strand: Texts and Contexts - 2.3 Reads and views a range of texts containing familiar topics and language, and

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predictable text structures.

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- English Level 2 Strand: Reading: Use of Texts - R2.1 Interprets and discusses relationships in texts between unfamiliar words or

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linguistic structures and features; R2.3 Identifies and uses the linguistic structures and features characteristic of a range of text types to construct meaning.

Strand: Writing: Contextural Understanding - W2.1 Interprets and discusses relationships in texts between unfamiliar words or linguistic structures and features; R2.3 Recognises that certain text types are associated with particular audiences and purposes.

- English Level 2

Strand: Reading and Viewing: Strategies 2.8a Integrates a variety of strategies for interpreting written and visual texts.

Strand: Writing: Strategies - 2.12 Consistently makes informed attempts at spelling.

Linguistic Structures and Features - 2.11 Controls most basic features of written language and experiments with some

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organisational and linguistic features of different text types.

Word Meanings

Phonemes -

Sound that is made by a letter or letters.

Graphs -

One letter making one sound, e.g a, s, e, h.

Digraphs -

Two letters make one sound, e.g. ea, ar, ow, ll.

Trigraphs -

Three letters making one sound, e.g. dge, ear, igh.

Blend -

Two or three letter blended together with each letter making its own individual sound. e.g. st, bl, tr, str, spr.

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NAME: _____________________________________________________________ DATE: __________________________

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NAME: _____________________________________________________________ DATE: __________________________

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It was Mike’s 11th birthday. He had woken up early and ran straight downstairs to the kitchen. Dad was busy making scrambled eggs for Mike. He knew that they were his favourite. Dad smiled and wished Mike a happy birthday.

Sitting down at the kitchen table, Mike spotted a parcel. It was

wrapped in plain brown paper and had lots of stamps on it.

Dad turned around and filled Mike’s plate with the scrambled

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That could mean thing.

This parcel must eggs. “That parcel is for you,“ said Dad. Mike lifted the parcel.

His eyes went straight to the stamps. They were not Australian from his Uncle Pat. Mike’s eyes lit up, because he knew that if it

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Happy Birthday Mike, I hope you like your present. I picked it up in a small antique shop on one of the Greek Islands. The man said that it was a collectors’ item because the price was o e t printed upside down. r Say hellor to B your Mum and Dad. s e oo p I’ll write you a long letter later.

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NAME: _____________________________________________________________ DATE: __________________________

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bacon

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Another word for a sink.

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Sauce that goes over meat.

Protects your clothes when cooking.

Fleet of military ships.

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I ran through the field of _________________ .

I decided to give the bedroom a coat of _________________ .

The _________________ was leaving the station at 7.30pm.

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NAME: _____________________________________________________________ DATE: __________________________

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hair

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share

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care

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party

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carpet

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star

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I opened the ______________ to find a beautiful silk

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When it got _____________, we gazed up at the _____________ from the back _____________ .

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basket

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While Olivia was eating her breakfast, Mum came in with the mail.

One of the letters was addressed to Olivia. She opened it to find an invitation to a fancy dress party from her friend Mike. Olivia was so excited. She had never been to a fancy dress party. “What would she wear?” Mum reminded her about the large chest that was in the shed. It might contain something to help with her costume. The chest was very old and might have lots of interesting things in it.

Gulping down the last of her cereal, she ran out the door and down the back steps to the shed. Unhooking the latch, she carefully entered and saw that the shed was full of all sorts of stuff. An old desk that belonged to her dad, a set of weights that her brother didn’t use any more, and a lot of boxes with names and dates written ©These Rea dyEdPubl i ca t i ons on them. were Mum’s and they contained lots of things from when she and • f o r r e v i e w p u r p o s e s onl y• her brother were young.

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He parked his bike in the rack and went inside inside. As he walked in he SILENCE PLEASE”. As soon as could see a large sign which read, “SILENCE the heavy door shut behind him, the outside noise disappeared and everything was so quiet quiet. Mike gave a soft sigh and thought about the project he had to do for school. He had decided to do his on the diamond back rattle snake. He headed off to the reptile section to find some books for his projects.

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party scarf star jar

ay away clay day delay hay May play stay sway today tray

a ask basket blast casket fast flask glass grass last mask pass past task

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paint sail snail train

p 10 - 14 a apron aviary baby bacon basic basin gravy lady ladybird navy

spread steady treasure wear weather bread

wheel ey chimney donkey honey jersey jockey key kidney money monkey trolley

cheer deer peer steer veer p 35 - 39 er after desert energy fern fertile germ hammer her jerk perch Perth serve shower

furniture nurse purse turkey turn turtle

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p 15 - 17 air airport chair fair fairy hair lair pair

p 21 - 23 e bed chest content desk enter excited fresh left less letter metal nest next petal petrol press sent shed tent test text

p 25 - 31 e be emu equal eternal even evil legal lever meteor regal ea beach cream feast freak leaf meat reach seat stream treat

y energy factory fairy frilly jelly happy pony ready teddy windy

ir bird birthday circus dirt girl shirt stir swirl third thirsty thirty whirl stir

p 40 - 43 i ability chicken dinner fish gorilla kitchen little picture tin tissue wind

skies tie tries igh fight flight fright high light might night sigh sight tight

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p 7 -9 a album ant apple dad happy ladder lamb magpie paddock pants saddle scramble stamp travel wrap

e cricket jacket kitten mitten packet picket pocket rocket

y dry fly fry my reply sky try why

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p 32 - 34 ear appear clear dear disappear ear fear gear hear near

p 44 - 50 i design diet giant idea ideal liar library sign silent

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eer beer career

or word work world worm worse worship worth

ur burn burp church curb

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are beware care declare hare prepare rare share square stare

ie brief chief field grief piece priest shield thief

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