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List
Vowel Patterns: /ou/ Spelled ou, ow
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The /ou/ sound can be spelled ou and ow.
Word Sort
Write each Pattern Word under the correct spelling of /ou/.
CD Materials and Preparation
•Weekly review pages: List 17 Practice, List 17 Spelling
Words, List 17 Review
Day 1
Day 2
• Word Sort List 17
• Homophones
•An instruction manual; a Day 3
cookbook
• A grocery store ad
• A picture of a sunflower
Day 4
• Homophones
• Review Activity
• Dictionary Skills
Day 1
Introduction
/ou/ Spelled ou and ow
▶▶ Write for display: count, sour, south. Instruct a volunteer
to read the words and identify the vowel sound in each
word.
How is the /ou/ sound spelled in these words? ou
▶▶ Direct a student to circle the vowel sound.
Does /ou/ come in the middle of these words or at the
end? in the middle The /ou/ sound can be spelled ou
before a consonant or a consonant digraph.
▶▶ Write house for display.
How is /ou/ spelled in house? ou Do you hear e at the
end of house? no
▶▶ Write show•er and tow•el for display. Ask a student to
read the words aloud.
How is the /ou/ sound spelled in these words? ow The
/ou/ sound can be spelled ow at the end of a word or
syllable. In these words, the ow comes at the end of a
syllable.
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mouse
lighthouse
power
ourselves
sour
downstairs
about
aloud
sunflower
flour
counter
allowed
south
shower
amount
towel
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▶▶ Display the instruction manual. Discuss what might
happen if words in an instruction manual were misspelled (e.g., unclear how to use the appliance correctly;
safety issues; someone could get hurt without proper
directions).
▶▶ Display the cookbook. Discuss what might happen if
a recipe had misspellings (e.g., unsure of ingredients,
measurements, or order of mixing).
Misspelled words send a confusing message. People
might make mistakes because the meaning of the words
is not clear.
▶▶ Read Mark 12:31.
We want to show love to other people by doing our best
writing.
mouse
ourselves
power
about
downstairs
flour
sunflower
south
amount
lighthouse
sour
aloud
allowed
counter
shower
towel
ow
ou
Pattern Words
Review Words
return
unafraid
Memory Words
bought
brought
Memory Words
Write the Memory Word that completes each sentence.
1. Mom brought
pastor’s family.
2. Dad bought
home from work.
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some apples to give to our
some eggs and milk on his way
Spelling 3
▶▶ Direct a student to circle the spelling for /ou/ in each word.
▶▶ Write for display: about, aloud, amount.
▶▶ Clap the syllables as you read the words together. Ask the students how
many syllables they heard in each word.
▶▶ Circle the a in each word. Explain that the letter a at the beginning of
each word does not have a long a or short a sound. The a says /uh/.
This soft /uh/ sound is called the schwa sound. Any vowel can say the
schwa sound. Here the schwa is spelled with an a.
▶▶ Circle the /ou/ pattern in each word and discuss the spellings.
Homophones
▶▶ Display the Homophones activity for aloud and allowed, revealing only
the illustrations at the top. Elicit that these words are homophones. They
are pronounced the same, but they have different meanings and spellings.
▶▶ Use the illustrations to remind the students of the meaning of each word.
▶▶ Discuss the illustration for the sentence. Guide the students as they complete the missing homophones in the sentence.
▶▶ Follow the same procedure using the visual for flour and flower.
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Word Study
Write the spelling word that belongs in each category.
1. Washing is to washcloth as drying is to towel
2. Strawberry is to sweet as lemon is to sour
▶▶ Write bought and brought for display.
Some of the sounds in these words do not have the spellings we might expect. We will need to remember these
words by how they look.
We know that ou usually says /ou/. What sound does ou
make in these words? /aw/ What letters are silent in both
of these words? gh
▶▶ Say and spell the words together as you point to each
letter.
▶▶ Complete the Memory Word sentences on page 66.
.
3. Buy is to bought as bring is to brought
.
4. Fearful is to afraid as brave is to unafraid
5. East is to west as north is to south
Memory Words
.
.
.
Sort each word by the number of syllables.
allowed
power
bought
mouse
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One Syllable
amount
return
Spell It!
brought
south
▶▶ Administer the assessment using a selection of Pattern
Words.
ourselves mouse sunflower amount downstairs
allowed
sour
lighthouse counter power
▶▶ Suggestions for expanding or reducing the word lists appear in the Appendix.
Two Syllables
6. mouse
10. allowed
7. south
11. power
8. bought
12. return
9. brought
13. amount
List 17 Practice
Day 2
Word Study
Spelling 3
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Word Sort
▶▶ Draw attention to the Pattern Words on page 66. Pronounce each word
distinctly and instruct the students to read each word after you.
▶▶ Display the picture of a sunflower.
The sunflower is not one flower but a cluster of more than 2,000 tiny
flowers growing together. A sunflower’s head can grow to as big as two
feet across, and the plant itself can be as tall as eighteen feet. Sunflower
seeds are used in cooking, salads, and granola snacks.
▶▶ Display Word Sort List 17. Point out the Word Sort activity. Remind
the students to look for the spelling of /ou/ to determine where to
place each word.
▶▶ Choose a student to read the first word on the list.
Where should we write the word mouse? under ou Why? because mouse
has the ou spelling of /ou/
▶▶ Write mouse under the ou heading.
▶▶ Complete the Word Sort on page 66.
Invite a student to
write for display each
▶▶ Write power for display.
new word as it is
How can we change power to
discussed.
flower? change p to fl
How can we change flower to shower? change fl to sh
▶▶ Continue the activity using the examples as guides.
1. flour/flower/tower
2. count/amount
3. mouse/house
Review Words
▶▶ Write return and unafraid for display. Read the words
together.
▶▶ Choose a volunteer to underline the base word and
circle the prefix in each word.
What do we call the letter or group of letters added to
the beginning of a word? a prefix Does the prefix change
the meaning of the base word? yes
What does the prefix re mean? “again or back”
What does return mean? “to turn back or to turn again”
What does the prefix un mean? “not” or “the opposite of ”
What does unafraid mean? “not afraid”
▶▶ Choose volunteers to use each word in a sentence.
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List
Proofreading
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Circle the words that are misspelled. Write them correctly.
Memory Words
bottles
1. 2 botles of ketchup
▶▶ Say the words bought and brought.
Which word is a form of buy? bought
▶▶ Direct a student to write bought for display.
Which word is a form of bring? brought
▶▶ Direct a student to write brought for display.
▶▶ Choose a volunteer to read each word and use it in a
sentence.
apples
2. 3 pounds of appels
flour
3. 2 five-pound bags of flowr
sunflower
4. 1 bag of sunflouer seeds
maple
5. 1 bottle of mapel syrup
sour
6. 2 pounds of sor cherries
bundle
7. 1 bundl of asparagus spears
Word Meaning
Day 3
Practice It!
▶▶ Administer the practice test. Pronounce each word, use
it in a sentence, and then repeat the word.
1. brought
I brought the pictures from our field trip.
2. ourselves We made the poster by ourselves.
3. power
Our power went out during the storm.
4. about
Tell me about your camping trip.
5. downstairs We keep our games downstairs.
6. boughtMy teacher bought new stickers last
week.
7. sunflower Sunflower seeds are good for you.
8. amountWhat amount of soil do you need to fill
the flower pot?
9. mouse
A mouse gnawed a hole in the bag.
10. unafraidMy brother is unafraid of the dark because he knows the Lord is with him.
11. allowedWe are allowed to use a calculator in
math.
12. sourDenise squinted when she tasted the
sour apple.
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Write the missing word to complete each compound word.
8. light
house
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▶▶ Use the Homophones activity to review the meaning of
each homophone.
▶▶ Read aloud the following sentence: Puzzle is to pieces as
apple is to slices.
▶▶ Explain that this statement is an analogy.
An analogy uses two pairs of words. Each pair of words
is related in a similar way.
▶▶ Display a word list and complete the analogies. Invite a
student to write each word.
1. Thinking is to silently as singing is to aloud.
2. Cocoa beans are to chocolate as wheat is to flour.
3. Peach is to sweet as lemon is to sour.
4. Maine is to north as Florida is to south.
5. Airplane is to control tower as boat is to lighthouse.
6. Bring is to brought as buy is to bought.
▶▶ Complete page 67.
9. down stairs
10. sun
flower
11. our
selves
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13. lighthouseThe lighthouse lamp shines into the night.
14. returnThey will return the books to the library.
15. counter
I sat at the counter to eat breakfast.
16. flourWe added two cups of flour to the mixture.
17. south
Steve lives fifty miles south of here.
18. aloudI like it when Grandpa reads the Bible aloud to us.
19. shower
We saw a rainbow after the rain shower.
20. towel
I dried the dishes with a clean towel.
▶▶ Follow the proceedure for dictating a sentence (page 8).
I am allowed to play downstairs.
Proofreading
▶▶ Display the grocery store ad.
What could happen if the words of a grocery store ad were misspelled?
People might misunderstand the item or the cost of the item.
▶▶ Introduce the proofreading activity.
Renee is helping her mother write a grocery list. We will help Renee
proofread her spelling.
▶▶ Write for display: botel of apple juice. Read the phrase aloud.
Is this phrase written correctly? no Which word is misspelled? bottle
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Dictionary Skills
Alphabetical Order
To put a group of words in alphabetical order, look at the first letter
of each word. If the first letters of the words are the same, look at
the second letters.
Which letter comes first in the alphabet? a
▶▶ Underline the second letter in each word. Elicit that allowed comes first alphabetically.
▶▶ Direct a student to write allowed on the first line and
amount on the second line.
Which first letter would be next in alphabetical order? o
Do we need to look at the second letter? no
▶▶ Direct a student to write ourselves on the third line.
▶▶ Underline the second letter of the two words that begin
with s. Elicit from the students which word is first
alphabetically.
▶▶ Direct a student to write the two words in the correct
order.
▶▶ Complete page 69.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
First letters
First and second letters
Alphabetical order
shower
al
1. allowed
lowed
amount
am
2. amount
sunflower
o
3. ourselves
allowed
sh
4. shower
ourselves
su
5. sunflower
Write each group of words in alphabetical order.
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bear
people
towel
puzzle
birthday
fence
beside
hugged
bundle
horse
phone
counter
climbed
flour
proof
1. bear
1. beside
1. climbed
2. birthday
2. bundle
2. counter
3. people
3. fence
3. flour
4. puzzle
4. horse
4. phone
5. towel
5. hugged
5. proof
Day 5
Know It!
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Spelling 3
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How should bottle be spelled? bottle Why? It has the tt pattern; /әl/ is
spelled le.
▶▶ Direct a student to write bottle for display.
▶▶ Complete page 68.
List 17 Review
Day 4
Review
▶▶ Display the Review Activity and a copy of List 17.
▶▶ Read a sentence and ask a volunteer to write the word that rhymes with
the underlined word and completes the meaning of the sentence. Note:
rhyming words may use different spelling patterns.
Dictionary Skills
▶▶ Administer the final test. Pronounce each word, use it in
a sentence, and then repeat the word.
1. mouse
A mouse ran across our barn floor!
2. ourselvesWe got some new slippers for ourselves
when we were shopping.
3. power
God has the power to do anything.
4. about
The Bible tells us about God.
5. downstairsWe walked downstairs and out the back
door.
6. flourAlexis got flour all over the table when
she was baking.
7. sunflower The sunflower was taller than Dad!
8. south
Our house is south of town.
9. amount
I measured the right amount of sugar.
10. lighthouse We climbed up the lighthouse stairs.
11. sour
Lemons are sour.
12. aloud
Our pastor read the Bible verses aloud.
13. allowedWe are allowed to stay up later Friday
night.
14. counter
The cookie jar is sitting on the counter.
15. shower
A rain shower ended our picnic early.
16. towel
Dan used the towel to dry his hands.
17. return
I need to return the book I borrowed.
18. unafraid
David was unafraid of Goliath.
19. bought
Our church bought a new piano.
20. brought
Eric brought his Bible to church today.
▶▶ Follow the procedure for sentence dictation (page 8).
1. What are you thinking about?
2. We were allowed to return to the lighthouse.
▶▶ Display the Dictionary Skills activity. Read the words together. Guide the
students as they alphabetize the words.
▶▶ Circle each first letter.
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