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Emergent Letter Name- Alphabetic (grade 1)
Beginning and Final Consonants (Spelling City) (pictures) (lesson: sounds)
Consonants
Consonants
Consonants
Consonants
Consonants
Short Vowels
1
2
3
4
5
Spelling City (b, c, d, f, h, g) (lesson)
Spelling City (h, j, k, l, m) (lesson)
Spelling City (n, p, q, r, s) (lesson)
Spelling City (t, v, w, x, y, z) (lesson)
Spelling City all (lesson) (practice)
Short Vowels (Spelling City) (practice a, practice o, practice i, practice u, practice e)
Digraphs
Digraph 1 Spelling City (th) (practice) (practice 2)
Digraph 2 Spelling City (wh) (practice)
Digraph 3 Spelling City (ch) (practice)
Digraph 4 Spelling City (ck) (practice)
Digraph 5 Spelling City (sh) (practice)
Digraphs 6 (Spelling City ck, th, wh, ch, sh) (practice ck, practice sh, practice ch, practice th,
practice th2)
Within Word Pattern (grades 2-4)
Blends: Blends 1 ( Spelling City sm, mp, fl, tr, dr, sl, st)
Blends 2 (Spelling City sw, sp, bl, fr, pl, br, cr)
Long Vowel Patterns
Long Vowels (Spelling City a_e, ea, oa, ai, igh etc) (lesson) (sounds)
Other Vowel sounds
y is both a vowel and a consonant (Spelling City) as a consonant, as a vowel) (lesson)
Harder Vowel Digraphs (Spelling City set 1 oo, ou, ei, ea, au, two vowels one sound)
Other Vowel Sounds 1 ‘short ‘o’ sound (Spelling City set 1) ‘al’, ‘aw’, ‘au’, ‘ough’, ‘wa’)
Other Vowel Sounds 2 Vowel Diphthongs (Spelling City set 2 ‘ow’, ‘ou’, ‘oi’, ‘oy’)
Other Vowel Sounds 3 (Spelling City set 3 ‘r’ controlled vowels ‘ar’, ‘or’, ‘er’, ‘ir’, ‘ur’) (Lesson)
Other Vowel Sounds 4 (Spelling City set 4 more confusing vowels u/oo, u/ew, au/aw)
Complex Consonants
Complex Consonants 1 (Spelling City set 1 hard and soft c & g) (Lesson)
Complex Consonants 2 (Spelling City set 2 tch, dge, scr, kn, squa) (Practice tch, practice dge,
Syllable and Affixes (grades 5-6)
Inflected Endings (Spelling City) (plural rules) (infection) (quiz)
Inflected Endings 1 (Spelling City set 1 inflected endings: doubling the consonant)
Inflected Endings 2 (Spelling City set 2 inflected endings: change y to an I (lesson), f to a v )
Inflected Endings 3 (Spelling City set 3 inflected endings: adding s or es)
Inflected Endings 4 (Spelling City set 4 (inflected endings: three sound of ‘ed’)
Inflected Endings 5 (Spelling City set 5) (suffix…whether or not to drop the e e.g. bike biking)
Syllable Junctures ***(Spelling City) (1st vowel short, double centered consonant e.g. bottle, single
consonant if long e.g. ripen)
Unaccented Final Syllables
Unaccented Final Syllables 1 (Spelling City2) (unaccented: er, or, ar all = “er” sound)
Unaccented Final Syllables 2 (Spelling City2) (unaccented: le, al, el) (More information) (Lesson)
Derivational Relations (grades 7+)
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Harder Affixes: (Spelling City e.g. cyber-, super-, multi-, -er, -ful, -est)
Affixes 1: prefixes Spelling City (un, dis meaning ‘not’ or ‘opposite’)
Affixes 2: suffixes Spelling City (ible, able) (lesson)
Affixes 3: suffixes Spelling City (-sion, -tion) (lesson) (test yourself)
Affixes 4: suffixes Spelling City (-ence, -ance) (lesson)
Reduced Vowels in Unaccented Syllables (Spelling City e.g. ‘fid’ in confidence) (lesson)
Assimilated Prefixes Spelling City (prefix changes spelling so we can say the word) (lesson)
Bases or Roots
(roots) (lesson on Greek and Latin elements)
Latin Affixes: (lesson)
Latin Roots: Spelling City (-dict-, -duc-, -gress-, -ject-)
Latin Prefixes: Spelling City (trans-, sub-, pre-, post-)
Latin Suffixes: Spelling City (-able, -ation, -ment, -ible)
Greek Affixes: (lesson)
Greek Roots: Spelling City (-chron-, -dem-, -phon-, -path-)
Greek Prefixes: Spelling City
(anti-, bio-, geo-, hyper- neo-)
Greek Suffixes: Spelling City (-ism, -ist, -ize, -logue, -logy)
More
More Suffixes
Other
Frequently Misspelled Words
Contractions
Spelling City (lesson) (a list) (practice)
Compound Words
‘seed’ sound
Spelling City (lesson) (practice)
Spelling City (lesson) (practice)
Spelling City (lesson) (practice)
More ‘r-controlled ‘ar’ sounds (‘ar’ sounds like ‘air’) Spelling City
Homonyms, Homographs, Homophones
‘i" before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ Spelling City
‘ic’, ‘ick’
Synonyms
Just For Fun Spelling
Parts of Speech
Writing Conventions
Rhyming
Mnemonics
Frequently Misused Words
Complex Consonants 2 tch, dge, scr,
kn, squa
Other Vowel sounds 3 ar, or, er. ir,
ur
Other Vowel sounds 4 u/oo, oo/ew,
au/aw
Complex Consonants 1 hard/soft c, g
Other Vowel sound 2 ow, ou
Other Vowel sounds 1 ‘o’
Harder vowel diagraphs
Emergent Letter Name-Alphabetic
Y as vowel or consonant
Long Vowels a_e, ea, oa, ai, igh
Greek Suffixes -ism, ist, -ize, -logue, -logy
Greek Prefixes -ant-, bio-, geo-, hyper-, neo
Greek Roots -chron- (time) -dem-, -phon-, -path-
Latin Suffixes -able (worthy, capable) -ation, -ment, -ible
Latin Prefixes trans-, sub-, pre-, post-
Latin Roots -dict- (to say) -duc-, -gress-, -ject-
Bases & Roots an introduction
Assimilated Prefixes prefix spelling changes so we can say it easily
Reduced Vowels in Unaccented Syllables confident
Affixes 4 -ence, -ance
Affixes 3 -sion, -tion
Affixes 2 ible, able
Affixes 1 un, dis meaning ‘not’ or ‘opposite’
Harder Affixes cyber-, super-, mult-, -er, -ful, -est
Unaccented Final Syllables 2 al, el, al,
Unaccented Final Syllables 1 ‘er’’sound or, ar
Syllable Junctures middle consonants, double, single
Inflected Endings 5 whether or not to drop the e
Inflected Endings 4 three sounds of ‘ed’
Inflected Endings 3 adding s or es
Inflected Endings 2 change y to and I, f to a v
Inflected Endings 1 doubling the consonant
Syllables and Affixes
Blends 2 sw, sp, bl, fr, pl, br, cr
Blends 1 sm, mp, fl, tr, dr, sl, st
Digraphs 6 th, wh, ch, ck, sh
Digraphs 5 sh
Digraphs 4 ck
Digraphs 3 ch
Digraphs 2 wh
Digraphs 1 th
Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u
Consonants 5 all
Consonants 4 t, v, w, x, y, z
Consonants 3 n, p, q, r, s
Consonants 2 h, j, k, l, m
Consonants 1 b, c, d, f, g
Individual Tracking Checklist
Student ______________________
Derivational Relations
Within Word Pattern
Desk Strip in a long row
Consonants 1
b ban tab
c cat
d dig
had
f frog if
g gum hog
Consonants 2
h hand
j jet
k kid
lock
l lamp pal
m man gum
Consonants 3
n not
fun
p pat
sip
q quick
r rob
car
s sun
bus
Consonants 4
t ten
bent
v vet
w wig
cow
x x-ray box
y yam
z zip
buzz
Consonants
b, c, d, f, g,
h, j, k, l, m, n,
p, q, r, s, t, v,
w, x, y, z
Short Vowels
a fan
e pet
i dig
o rob
u gum
Digraphs 6
thorn
bath
ship
wish
chew lunch
when duck
Blends
smudge
flies
lump
tries
Long Vowels
VCe hope
VV
wait
igh fright
CV so
Other Vowel
‘y’ as a vowel
by , gym, tummy
as a consonant
yellow, yip
Other Vowels
Harder Digraphs
boot /book
tough/cough
thread /great
weigh
caught
Other Vowels 1
Vowel Diphthong
Other Vowels 2
Vowel Diphthong
vowels combined with w or y to
make new sounds
Other Vowels 3
march thorn
her
hurt
third
Other Vowels 4
put
shook
soon
crew
caught
fawn
Inflected Endings 1:
doubling the
consonant VCCing
clap- clapping
Inflected Endings 5
dropping ‘e’, keeping the ‘e’
ride - riding
serve - served
fat - fatter
wet - wettest
Harder Affixes
cyber- (computer related)
super-(over, above)
multi-(many)
-er (verb to noun)
-ful (to do)
-est (most)
Affixes 3
-tion
-sion
action,
result, state
cyberstudent
superscript
multitask
worker
playful
brightest
relation
information
vision
expression
Affixes 1
un-, disreversal,
negative,
separation
Affixes 4 Suffixes
-ence
-ance
quality, action
Latin Roots
-dict- (to say)
contradiction
-duct- (lead, lead to) productive
- -gress- (to walk)
progress
-ject- (to throw)
ejection
Greek Roots
-chron- (time)
-dem- (people)
-phon(o)-(sound)
-path- (feeling)
Inflected Endings 2: Inflected Endings 3:
change ‘y’ to an ‘i’, ‘f’ add ‘s’ or ‘es’
foxes
buses
to a ‘v’, add es
try - tries
wishes
misses
leaf - leaves
lunches
potatoes
Syllable Junctures: 1st vowel
not long, consonant doubled
rr car-ries
ll
cel-lar
chronic
pandemic
microphone
empathy
Unaccented Final Syllables 1
‘or’ & ‘ar’ make the ‘er’ sound
SAIL-or
CEL-lar
disloyal
dislodge
unable
undo
dominance
clearance
circumference
tolerance
Latin Prefixes
trans - (across)
transport
sub- (under, behind) submarine
pre- (before)
prepay
post- (after)
postdate
Greek Prefixes
anti- (against)
bio- (life)
geo- (earth)
hyper- (excessive)
neo- (new)
Affixes 2
-ible
-able
capable, fit for,
tending to
Reduced Vowels in
Unaccented
Syllables
-fidCON-fi-dent
-lizCIV-i-lize
malt saw
haul sought
Complex Consonants 1
c as ‘s’ g as ‘j’
city
logical
pounce page
cycle
gym
prowl sour
boy
toil
Complex Consonants 2
switch
smudge
scrape
knotted
squirt
make a short ‘o’
sound want
Inflected Endings 4:
3 sounds of : ‘ed’
chewed ‘d’
shouted ‘ed’
camped ‘t’
Unaccented Final
Syllables 2
al LOY-al
el TUN-nel
le BOT-tle
terrible
sensible
reliable
manageable
assimilated prefixes
(prefix spelling changed)
in + legible changes to
il + legible = illegible
Latin Suffixes
-able (worthy, capable)
- ation (process)
-ment (nouns from verbs)
-ible (worthy, capable)
antibody
biology
geography
hyperactive
neoplasm
likable
civilization
amazement
flexible
Greek Suffixes
-ism (act, theory)
-ist (nouns from verbs)
-ize (verbs from nouns)
-logue (talk, speech)
-logy (law, theory)
optimism
cyclist
hospitalize
dialogue
biology
Wall Charts (Within Word, Syllable and Affixes, Derivational Relationships)
Beginning and Ending Consonants (Emergent)
bed
cab
b
g
l
q
v
z
cab
disc
c
h
m
r
w
gap
bag
lap
boil
quick
van
hum
map
tam
rat
car
wax
d
j
n
s
x
dig
sad
f
k
p
t
y
jab
nap
tan
sit
us
wax
x-ray
fan
beef
kit
yak
pat
nap
tap
at
yak
zip
buzz
Short Vowels (Emergent)
a
e
i
o
u
y
fan
pet
dig
rob
gum
by
funny
Digraphs *two consonants together making one sound (Emergent)
th
ch
wh
sh
ck
thorn
both
chew
lunch
when
ship
wish
sick
Blends * two consonants together making two distinct sounds (Within Word Pattern)
sm tr
smudge
tries
sw
switch
fl
dr mp sl
flies
dream
st
lump
sled
stick
fr sp pl
bl
br
cr
fright
blade
broom
crawl
spot
place
Long Vowel Patterns * vowels saying their own name (Within Word Pattern)
VV VCV CV igh
4 main
patterns
wait
hope
so
fright
Other Vowels
as a vowel
y
as a consonant
by
gym funny
yellow
yam
yummy
Harder Vowel Digraphs * two vowels making one different sound (Within Word Pattern)
oo
soon
book
ou
enough
cough
ea
thread
great
Other Vowel Sounds 1 * short ‘o’ sound
al
salt
stalk
aw
crawl
shawl
au
caught
taught
ei
weigh
au
caught
(Within Word Pattern)
ough
fought
brought
wa
wall
walk
Other Vowel Sounds 2 * 2 sounds, sometimes 2 vowels, sometimes 1 vowel changed by the
consonant (Within Word Pattern)
ow
sow
towel
ou
ground
mouse
oi
toil
coil
Other Vowel Sounds 3 * r controlled vowels
ar
tar
car
or
thorn
torn
er
her
fern
oy
boy
toy
(Within Word Pattern)
ir
stir
bird
ur
hurt
burn
Other Vowel Sounds 4 * more confusing vowels
u
oo
oo
ew
put
shook
soon
crew
(Within Word Pattern)
au
aw
caught
fawn
Complex Consonants 1 * consonants changing their sounds (Within Word
C & G are soft when and ‘i’, ‘e’ or ‘y’ follow them
Pattern)
c
city
says
‘s’
pounce
g
cycle
logical
says
‘j’
page
gym
Complex Consonants 2 * complicated consonant combinations (Within Word Pattern)
tch dge scr kn squ
switch
smudge
scrape
knotted
squirt
Inflected Endings 1 * name for extra letter or letters added to nouns, verbs and adjectives
to form noun plurals, various verb tenses, and comparative adjectives (Syllable &Affixes)
VCV double the
consonant
before
adding…..
- ed, -ing, -er, -est
pat - patted
fit - fitted
rob - robbing
slim - slimmer
sled - sledding
fat - fatter
pin - pinning
wet - wetter
knit - knitted
thin – thinnest
fat - fattest
wet - wettest
Inflected Endings2 * we sometime change the last letter before adding a suffix
(Syllable and Affixes)
vccv
y - ies
f - ves
e.g. -pping
clap- clapping
try - tries
party - parties
leaf - leaves
Inflected Endings3 * when writing the plural form, sometime we add ‘es’ (Syllable
and Affixes)
add x, o, ch, ss, s, sh
s es
foxes
or
lunches
potatoes
buses
misses
wishes
Inflected Endings 4 * the suffix ‘ed’ has three possible sounds (Syllable &
Affixes)
3 sounds ‘t’, ‘d’, ‘ed/id’
of - ed
camped
flipped
chewed
flowed
shouted
crowded
Inflected Endings 5 * sometimes we need to drop the ‘e’ before adding a
suffix (Syllable and Affixes) drop when the suffix begins with a vowel
vcve
When do we
drop the ‘e’
before adding
a suffix?
vcve
vcve
shape + ed = shaped
ripe + er = riper
hope + ing = shaping
hope + ful = hopeful
hope + less = hopeless
state + ment = statement
Syllable Junctures * usually when the first vowel is short, a double
consonant often follows to separates the two vowels (Syllable and Affixes)
1st vowel short, consonant
doubled
rr
ll
CUR-ry
CEL-lar
1st vowel long, consonant
not doubled
v
p
FA-vor
RI-pen
Unaccented Final Syllables 1 (not stressed) these unstressed endings (or,
ar and er) all sound like ‘er’ (Syllable and Affixes)
“er”
SAIL-or SOL-ar
RIP-er
sound
Unaccented Final Syllables 2 (not stressed) the following final syllables have
little or no stress when spoken (Syllable and Affixes)
‘al’
LOCal
c, m, n, r, s, u, v, w, x, z
‘el’
TRAVel
‘le’
CANDle
70 % of the words end with ‘le’
b, d, f, h, k, l, t (‘stick’ letters)
g, j, p, q, y (‘tail’ letters)
Harder Affixes (Derivational Relations)
cyber-
super-
multi-
‘internet, computers’
cybergame: game played
‘over, above’
superscript: symbol
‘many, much
multilingual:
written above
speaks many
languages
on the Internet
cyberstudent: taught via
the Internet
superimpose: to
place or lay above
multipurpose:
has many uses
-er
-ful
‘a verb to a noun,
‘full’
comparative’
worker: someone who works
slower: more slow than….
playful: full of play
peaceful: full of
peace
-est
‘most’
fastest: nothing
faster
funniest: most
funny
Affixes 1: Prefixes (Derivational Relations)
un-, dis‘not or opposite’
unhappy, untie, undo, unequal
dislodge, disconnect, dislike
Affixes 2: Suffixes (Derivational Relations)
terrible: causing terror
‘capable, fit for, tending to’ edible: fit for eating
* if the suffix is added to a base word
audible: can be heard
that stands alone, it is usually –able
* if it is attached to a word root (e.g. ed, understandable: able to understand
aud), it is usually -ible
comfortable: able to bring comfort
-ible, -able
Affixes 3: Suffixes (Derivational Relations)
-sion, -tion
‘action or instance’
* if the suffix is added to a base
word that ends in –de or -it, we
just add –sion
* if the suffix is added to a base
word that ends in –te or -ce, the
word will end in -tion
division: act of dividing (divide)
decision: act of deciding (decide)
relation: a quality that connects (relate)
reduction: an act of making smaller
(reduce)
Affixes 4: Suffixes (Derivational Relations)
-ence, -ance
‘quality, condition or state’
or ‘an action or process’
* if the suffix is added to a base word that
ends with ‘ent’, the suffix is usually –ence
* if the suffix is added to a base word that
ends with ‘ant’, the suffix is usually –ance
resilience:
indulgence: act of indulging
tolerance: act of allowing
something
hesitance: act of pausing briefly
Reduced Vowels in Unaccented or unstressed Syllables (Derivational
Relations)
FEB-ru-ar-y
CAT-e-gor-y
JEW-el-lery
DIC-tio-nar-y
Assimilated Prefixes: the spelling of the prefix changes for easier reading
(Derivational Relations)
ad
‘to, toward’
adtest
others…
adlocate
adcuse
adrive
at
in
‘not’
attest inlegal
others…
allocate inproper
accuse inmodest
arrive inrational
Latin Roots (Derivational Relations)
il
illegal
improper
immodest
irrational
-dict-
-duc(t)-
‘to say’
dictate
predict
‘to lead away by force’
abduct
deduct
-gress-
-ject-
‘to walk’
progress
transgress
‘to throw’
project
eject
Latin Prefixes (Derivational Relations)
trans-
sub-
‘across, through’
transatlantic
transpolar
‘under’
submarine
substandard
pre-
post-
‘before’
‘after’
pre-exist
prepay
postdate
postwar
Latin Suffixes (Derivational Relations)
-ation
-ment
‘forms nouns from verbs’
information speculation
‘forms nouns from verbs’
entertainment
statement
-able
-ible
‘forms adjectives meaning
capable of’
likable
reliable
‘forms adjectives meaning
capable of’
flexible
sensible
Greek Roots (Derivational Relations)
-chronchronicle
-dem-
‘time’
synchronize
‘people’
democracy
pandemic
-phon-
-path-
‘sound’
phonics
symphony
‘feeling, suffering’
empathy
sympathy
Greek Prefixes (Derivational Relations)
ant-
bio-
geo-
‘opposite,
opposing’
antipollution
‘life, living organism’
biology
‘Earth, geography’
geography
hyper-
neo-
‘excessive’
hyperactive
‘new’
neoplasm
Greek suffixes (Derivational Relations)
-ism
-ist
-ize
‘forms nouns, the act’
(forms nouns from verbs)
criticism
cyclist
‘forms verbs from
nouns and adjectives’
-logue
-logy
‘speech’
dialogue
‘expression, theory,
study’
biology
hospitalize
Other Lessons
Frequently Misspelled Words (examples)
their
buy
breath
to belong to
purchase
lungful of air
there
by
location
next to
they’re
bye
breathe
contraction for short for ‘goodbye’
they are
take in air
allowed counsellor
where
permission
provides advice
location
aloud
councillor
wear
out loud
position on town
council
dress in
Compound Words: words made up of two smaller words
retaining their meanings
earthquake
overdue
earth + quake
(the earth’s ground
shaking)
over + due
(was due earlier)
newsletter rattlesnake
news + letter
(a letter containing
news)
rattle + snake
(a snake with a rattle)
dishwasher landmark
dish + washer
(washes dishes)
land + mark
(a mark on the land)
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