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Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers
SORT 2 Short –a versus long –a (CVCe)
Prepare a set of pictures and words to use for teacher-directed modeling. There are 17
words and four pictures. Read and discuss any unfamiliar words, then ask your students
if they notice anything about the words (they all have an a in them). Ask about the vowel
sounds in the middle of the words. Do they all have the same vowel sound? Students
might cut their own sets of words in advance to bring to the group.
Demonstrate
Introduce the short –a symbol and the long –a symbol on the headers. Be sure to include
the oddball header for words that do not fit the other two categories. Provide an example
of each vowel sound and model the phoneme segmentation process involved in isolating
and identifying each vowel sound. Demonstrate the sorting process by saying each word
and comparing it to each key word and symbol. Have your students join in as you
continue to model the isolation, identification, and categorization of the medial vowel
sound. After sorting a few, be sure to model the word what and how to decide when a
word does not fit either category. Explain why what is an oddball; what is spelled like it
should have a short –a sound but it does not: The middle sound of what sounds
like/uh/instead of the short –a sound. When you are finished sorting, ask the students
how the words in each column are alike and how they are different from the other words.
Short –a (cat)
last
mad
fast
snap
sack
ask
grass
hand
Long –a (cake)
make
face
same
made
base
page
rake
came
oddball
what
SORT 3 Short –i versus long –i (CVCe)
Prepare a set of pictures and words to use for teacher-directed modeling (if desired).
Discuss any unfamiliar words. Ask your students what they notice about the spelling of
the words in the sort.
Demonstrate
Introduce the short –i and the long -i symbols on the headers. Be sure to include the
oddball header for words that do not fit the other two categories. Tell your students that
they will compare and contrast the spelling patterns of short -i and long –i words.
Remember to segment the middle vowel sound in the key words so that students will
know what to listen for. Demonstrate the sorting process by saying the word and
comparing it to each key word, and symbol. Have your students join in as you continue
to model the isolation, identification, and categorization of the medial vowel sound.
After you have sorted a few, hold up the word give and ask what pattern the word might
o with. Then ask if the word give has a long –i sound. Explain that the word give is an
oddball because it is spelled like a long –i word – it has the CVCe pattern- but the vowel
sound in the middle of give is short. When you are finished demonstrating the sort, ask
your students how the words in each column are alike and how they are different.
Sort –i (pig)
swim
rich
dish
thin
flip
gift
spill
Long –i (kite)
oddball
give
five
drive
mice
prize
hike
nice
life
nine
SORT 4 Short –o versus long –o (CVCe)
There are 17 words in this sort. As you read and discuss the words, be sure to talk about
the meanings for the words rode and hole so that students do not confuse them with the
words road and whole. Explain that rode and hole are homophones – words that sound
alike but have different meanings and different spelling patterns. The words come and
some are oddballs in this sort because they have the CVCe spelling pattern but do not
have the long –o sound.
Short –o (sock)
rock
job
hot
spot
chop
Long –o (bone)
home
stove
hose
hole
hope
those
joke
rode
broke
rose
oddball
come
some
SORT 5 Short versus long (CVC and CVCe)
There are 21 words in this sort. The column headers label the pattern of consonants and
vowels for each vowel sound. The label CVC refers to the pattern of consonants and
vowels for the long vowel. Read and discuss any unfamiliar words. See if anyone knows
which word is a homophone and tell your students that this which is spelled differently
from the witch that rides a broomstick; they have different spelling patterns so we can tell
them apart.
Demonstrate
Introduce headers CVC –short, CVCe-long, and oddball. Tell your students that they will
be comparing and contrasting the short – and long-vowel spellings of all four of the
vowels they have been studying in the previous four sorts. Since all four vowels are
represented, the key words and pictures for individual vowels have been dropped.
Explain that the CVC refers to the consonant-vowel-consonant spelling pattern of the
short vowels. Write up several words and label them. Fat = CVC, but so is flat and
flock. Label the consonants in crop as CCVC and in which as CCVCC. Explain that all
three words have a short vowel and CVC is used to represent all of them. The CVCe
refers to the consonant-vowel-consonant –e spelling pattern of the long vowels.
Demonstrate the sorting process by saying each word and comparing it to each header.
Have your students join you as you model sorting by pattern. See if they can spot the
oddballs –the words done and have contain the CVCe pattern- but not the long-vowel
sound. When you are finished demonstrating the sort, ask your students how the words
in each column are alike by sound and by pattern. Reflect as a group on the pattern-tosound consistency in the CVC and CVCe pattern. Reflect as a group on the pattern-tosound consistency in the CVC and CVCe pattern across all four vowels.
CVC-short
crop
wax
skin
crab
lots
gum
drip
which
CVC-long
note
mule
rule
dune
safe
wife
cape
tide
vote
wipe
race
oddball
done
have
SORT 6 Final /k/ sound spelled ck, ke, or k
-ck short
sick
lock
duck
pack
lick
sock
truck
-ke long
bike
shake
spoke
duke
strike
smoke
like
Sort 7 Short –a and Long –a (CVCe and CVVC)
CVC
CVCe
CVVC
black
frame
brain
flash
place
paint
rash
blame
train
camp
main
faint
pain
chain
tail
Sort 8 Short –o and Long –o (CVCe and CVVC)
CVC
CVCe
CVVC
knock
stone
float
soft
chose
boat
cross
slope
goat
whole
soap
foam
load
toast
toad
coat
-k other
shook
cook
look
book
oddball
said
went
love
none
Sort 9 Short –u versus long –u (CVCe and CVVC)
CVC
bump
skump
trust
CVCe
dude
prune
CVVC
bloom
smooth
broom
mood
moon
spoon
tooth
CVVC
suit
juice
build
built