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A Guide to DealingA Guide to Dealing

With Big WordsWith Big Words

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Rules for Meeting Strange

Words

Do not skip Strange Words!

Think: YES…I CAN!

Look for the vowels…dot them.

Draw a rectangle around

prefix/suffix/ing/ed Consider the silent e

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Noticing how many

long and unknownwords you areencountering in yourreading?

Ever feel like reading is just TOO hard - too

many big words andtoo many pages?? Doyou ever want to just

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If you know how to

decode long words,you will read moreeasily. This means you

will read quicker andlonger. THIS means…that you will be more

interested, remembermore and GET BETTERGRADES!R

EA

DING

CAN

BE

EA

SIE

R!!!

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IT IS NOT

MAGIC!

Dealing with longwords is easy IFyou have some

strategies…likenoticing patterns.

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(unknown word)

Everyone needs a concretestrategy to decode multi-syllabic

words.

vernacular dialect

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It’s just a bunch of

syllables!

Large words are simply agroup of syllables put

together.

vernacular dialect

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What is a syllable?

Words have beats…like music has

“beats.”

Say your name. How many beats does

your first name have? Your secondname?

How many beats altogether?

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Tap the beats in these

words…

Dogs

Angel

Revolutionary

Industrial

Capable

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Analyze the number of syllablesin these lines of poetry –

Mother doesn’t want a dogMother thinks they smell

And never sit when you saysit

Not even when you yell

Excerpt Judith Viorst

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aa b c db c d ee f g hf g h ii j k j k

l m nl m n oo p q r s tp q r s t uu

v w xv w x

yy

zz

This is the alphabet. Why

arethe letters in different

colors?

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What determines a syllable?

Within each syllable is a vowel. Our job as areader is to determine what that

vowel sounds like.

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Vowels Are “Shape Shifters”

Consonants keeptheir own sounds

most of the time .*

Vowels changetheir sounds ALLOF THE TIME!

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Consonants That Shape

Shift““c” and “g” have a hard sound (cat and go) UNLESS they are followingby the vowel E, I or Y. These vowels will make the “c” and “g” sound soft:

cereal generous

cilia giganticcyclone gymnasium

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Vowels can sound…

Long……………….race

Short………………rat

Schwa…………….applicable

R-controlled…….car

(most of the time)(most of the time)

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A few statistics about words-

84% of our words are phonetically regular

16% are not

This 16% represents the category of

words referred to as SIGHT WORDS.

Blevins, Teaching Phonics in the Middle Grades

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Sight words continued --

said

althoughcertain

come

above

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High Frequency Words & Sight

Words

These terms have been comingled, and are

commonly seen/presented as one groupunder either name.

This group of words makes up 50%of all print.

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SEE IT…SAY IT

Method used to teach phoneticallyirregular words OR high frequency words.

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Phonetically Regular…84%

We teach students to decode these

words by:

following the PATTERNS of words

applying the rules of phonics

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The Brain is a Pattern Seeking

Organism

Patterning is a highly successful method of learningabout words. However, ALL students improvetheir ability to encode and decode words with

phonics instruction when and where it is needed.

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Syllable Types

Vowel Teams

Silent EConsonant ‘le’

Closed

R Controlled

Open

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Learning the Basic Syllable Types

How do you get this information to

“stick” in your head?

V.E.L.C.R.O.

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Choose seven sheets of differentcolored paper and follow thedirections of your teacher.

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“V” is for VOWEL TEAM

When two go walking, the first one

does the talking.

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Examples of Vowel Teams

ai straight, rain,

ay stray, delay

ei receipt, conceit, deceiveee creep, sheet

ea team, scream

ie* shriek, field,oa boat, float

ui fruit, suit, pursuit

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Your Turn

In your booklet, make a list of

additional examples of these patterns.

Try to find samples of one, two, three?syllable words that fit each pattern

.

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“C” is for closed

When a vowel is “enclosed” by twoconsonants, it is referred to as a

CLOSED syllable. The vowel sound istypically short.

cut, fit, scat, cuddle, hot, vulnerable Your turn.

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“O” is for open syllable

When a vowel is not enclosed byconsonants, it is typically

pronounced as a long vowel sound.

famous, tiger, bystander, financial

Your turn.

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Spoken vocabulary

• A person’s spoken vocabulary playsa big role in how able someone is to

correctly pronounce an unknownword.

• Exposure to vocabulary plays a role

in being able to monitor and adjustthe correct pronunciation of anunknown word.

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Reading is Important!!!

The most valuable source of building

your vocabulary is reading…a greatdeal.

Read in the content area you are studying

Keep a journal of words you find interesting. Make it a practice to try to use the new and

more sophisticated words you are learning!

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Word Benders

Use one strip of your paper and fold it into

the same number of segments as thereare syllables in the word you just heard.

integer = 3 syllablesFold your paper into five segments.

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Word Benders

Choose several words that the students are

currently using, content area words or othervocabulary words.

Have them say the word, fold it and then

write the syllables on the segments.

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Dictionary Doublecheck

Your ears will get you close to thecorrect spelling, not necessarily to

the exact correct spelling.

To find out the correct spelling, you

will have to consult a dictionary orother word reference, like the index.

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Dictionary Doublecheck

Dictionaries are arranged alphabetically.

Try to locate your word in the dictionary. You may have to do a little hunting.

(Like if you spelled the beginning sound with an

“e” instead of an “i.”)

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