Phonics Pathways: Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling, 10th Edition

ABOUT THIS BOOK vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii

INTRODUCTION xiii

ABOUT PHONICS PATHWAYS 1

GETTING STARTED 3

TEACHING AID: SHORT-VOWEL STICK 4

GAME: SHORT-VOWEL SHUFFLE 5

SHORT-VOWEL SOUNDS 10

GAME: Short-Vowel Review (Bingo) 16

TWO-LETTER BLENDS (Eyerobics) 17

GAME: THE TRAIN GAME 20

GAME: STARSEARCH 37

THREE-LETTER WORDS 39

GAME: BAG THE BUGS 48

PYRAMID 52

/K/ = C-, K-, -CK 53

TWO-CONSONANT ENDINGS 58

-Y SUFFIX 70

TWIN-CONSONANT ENDINGS 74

FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Real and Nonsense Words 75

CONSONANT DIGRAPH ENDINGS: -sh, -th, -ch, -tch 76

FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Consonant Digraph Nonsense Words 83

SIMPLE LONG-VOWEL SOUNDS 90

FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Short- and Long-Vowel Nonsense Words 109

SUFFIXES 110

SUFFIX SPELLING CHART 115

MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 117

/k/ = -ic, -ick 118

DIVIDING MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 119

PLURAL, POSSESSIVE, AND X 121

CONSONANT DIGRAPH BEGINNINGS: sh-, ch-, wh-, th-, qu- 123

TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS: bl-, fl-, pl-, cl-, gl-, sl- 133

FUN AND GAMES 138

TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS : sm-, sn-, st-, sp-, sc-, sk- 139

R-MODIFIED VOWELS 149

LONG-VOWEL DIGRAPHS 159

/S/ = ce, ci, cy: /Ç/ = ei 173

VOWEL DIPHTHONGS: /oi/ = oi, oy; /ou/ = ou, ow 176

FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: /j/ = -ge, gi-, & -dge Nonsense words 184

-Y, -IE PLUS SUFFIXES 185

-F = -VES 186

NEW VOWEL SOUNDS 188

/ÔO/ = oo, oul, u; /O/ = au, aw, al, all, o 189

THREE-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS 195

SHORT-VOWEL SPELLING PATTERNS 199

/Ĕ/ = ea, a, ai; /Ĭ/ = y, ui; /Ŏ/ = a; /Ŭ/ = o, ou, oo, a 199

SCHWA 203

CONTRACTIONS 206

SILENT LETTERS: -le, k, w, l, b, t, h 208

SILENT GH: /Î/ = igh; /O/ = ough, augh; /Ô/ = ough; /ou/ = ough 213

/Â/ SPELLING PATTERNS: /Â/ = ei, eigh, ey, ea 216

S = /z/, /zh/, /sh/; /F/ = ph, gh; /K/ = ch 219

ANOTHER R-MODIFIED VOWEL SOUND 224

A SPELLING GRAB BAG 226

Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs 226

Multisyllable Words with Suffixes 228

-ce, -ge; -able, -ible 229

PREFIXES: pre-, sub-, re-, auto-, un-, dis-, inter-, super- 230

MORE SUFFIXES: -tion, -sion, -able, -ness, -ful, -less, -ment 233

COMPOUND WORDS 236

BUILDING BLOCKS 237

APPENDIX A: REFERENCE & SUPPLEMENTAL PRACTICE 243

Spelling Strategies 243

Index to Spelling Rules and Patterns 244

Spelling & Pronunciation Chart 245

Plural Spelling Chart 247

Suffix Spelling Chart 248

Student Achievement Chart 249

Student Progress Notes 250

Vision and Motor Coordination Training Exercises 251

Pyramid 253

APPENDIX B: GAMES AND ACTIVITIES 255

Hot Tips 255

The Short Sheet of Vowels 256

The Shoo-Fly Shuffle (a.k.a. Short-Vowel Shuffle) 257

The Train Game 258

Blendit! (Similar to Bingo) 260

StarSearch 261

Bag the Bugs 262

REVIEWS AND RESULTS 263

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 266