Download 2 vowels - Hillsdale Public Schools

Wilson Fundations for K-3 is a phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics
and spelling program for the general education classroom. Fundations is
based upon the Wilson Reading System® principles and serves as a
prevention program to help reduce reading and spelling failure.
Each day there is a lesson that uses a variety of strategies to teach the
students spelling patterns and rules. Some of these activities are dictation
of sounds, words, trick words, and sentences; drill sounds; echo/find
letters, words; letter formation; and a variety of other activities. During a
lesson the students use sound cards, magnetic tile boards, dry erase
boards, gel boards, sky writing, and workbooks to practice and master
these skills.
There will be a Unit Check Up and a Unit Test. However, this is not a
traditional spelling test-the words are not given in advance. Students are
expected to use the strategies they have been taught to spell the words.
These are strategies that should carry over into the students reading and
writing.
Syllable Types
These syllables can be combined to make multisyllabic words.
There are 6 syllable types:
Closed Syllable
Vowel-Consant-e Syllable Open Syllable
1. This syllable can
only have one vowel.
2. The vowel is
followed by one or
more consonants.
3. The vowel sound is
short.
Examples: cup, whip,
last, strap, brunch
1. This syllable has a vowel,
then consonant, then an e.
2. The first vowel is long.
3. The e is silent.
Examples: cape, home, pine,
plane, kite, shame, tube
1. This syllable has only
one vowel which is the
last letter in the
syllable.
2. The vowel sound is
long.
Example: he, she, hi, no,
so, by, flu, shy, sku, pro,
me, my
r-controlled Syllable
Vowel Digraph/Dipthong
Syllable (Double Vowel)
1. This syllable contains 2
1. This syllable
vowels that work together
contains a single vowel as a team.
followed by an r (ar, 2. These vowels together
er, ir, or, ur).
make one sound.
2. The vowel is neither
long nor short; it is
controlled by the r.
Examples: ar-car; erher; ir-bird; or-horn;
ur-burn
Consonant-le Syllable
1. This syllable has only
three letters:
aconsonant, an l, and an
e.
2. The e is silent. It is
the vowel. Every
syllable needs at least
one vowel. The
consonant and the l are
sounded like a blend.
3. This syllable is always
last in amultisyllabic
word.
Examples: gobble, bugle