![]() Therefore, our spelling and phonics instruction will be one that teaches students to look for patterns from words they know and then use these patterns to read and spell unknown words.Įach week we will have a set of focus words that the students will review and practice through a variety of different activities. In order for children to be good decoders and spellers, they need to learn to quickly separate words into these parts, think of sounds associated with the patterns, and recombine them. ![]() These patterns are onsets (all the letters up to the vowel) and rimes (the vowel and letters following it). The brain is a ‘pattern detector’, and unknown words are separated by the brain into two patterns. Hence, this year to aid students in learning how to spell and decode words we will focus on looking for patterns of letters and sounds, rather than individual letters. Many of the consonants and vowels have a variety of sounds, depending on the surrounding letters. English is not a simple language to learn how to decode and spell.
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