Teacher information
Unit 7
Unit focus This unit focuses on the graphemes en and on.
Teaching points • Identify each grapheme and how it is represented. • Break each word into syllables, i.e. sud/den/ly (each syllable must contain a vowel sound [in ly, although there is no vowel,
there is still a vowel sound]) • Discuss how some words have double consonants to keep the preceding vowel sound short. • Sort the list words according to the graphemes and brainstorm other words to add to each list.
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List words Word building
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eleventh open, opens, opening, openly, opener, openness break, breaks, broke, breaking, breakable, breakage hid, hide, hides, n hiding happens, happened, happening sudden, suddenness seasons, seasoned, seasoning, seasonal, seasonable reasons, reasoned, reasoning, reasonable, unreasonable persons, personal, personally, personality, s personalities, personable poisons, poisoned, poisoning, poisonous commonly, uncommon cottons
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eleven opened broken hidden happen suddenly season reason person poison common cotton
© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons Revision words Word building smell • smells, smelled, smelling, smelly f o rr evi ew pur posesonl y• still grasses, grassy dresses, dressed, dressing l buzzes, buzzed, buzzing stiffer, stiffest cliffs stuffs, stuffed, stuffing l
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(Taken from Unit 7, Book C.)
Rules
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grass dress buzz stiff cliff stuff
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Rule: When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to most words ending with e, the e is dropped before adding the suffix. Rule: To make the plural of words ending with y after a consonant, change the y to i and add es. l Rule: To make words ending with ss and zz plural, es is added. n
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Dictation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
It was common for each person in the team to wear cotton shirts in the hottest season. I don’t have a good reason, but I am still going to buy eleven dresses at the shops. He opened the cupboard and found a bottle of poison hidden at the back. The broken gate lay on the grass near the cliff. Let me know if you happen to suddenly see a buzzing bee. When that person opened the front door, I could smell the freshly cut grass.
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