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Easy Lessons For Teaching Word Families PDF
for
Teaching
Word Families
by Judy Lynch
Dedication:
Acknowledgements:
Grateful thanks to my mentors:
Bev Ruby and Linda Lake, Reading Recovery® Teacher Leaders
Cecil Morris, California Reading and Literature Project
Dr. Mary Barr, Center for Language and Learning
Dr. Richard Herzberg, Bureau of Education and Research
Heartfelt gratitude to Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall, authors of Making Words,
for their inspiration and support of classroom teachers.
And to the first-grade teachers at Madison Elementary, Sacramento, who field tested these
lessons: Jordy Banner, Mary Ann Blohm-Craig, Cecelia Kingsbury, Heather Smith, and
Sherry Valiska
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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Terminology Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Common Patterns/Rimes
Classroom Materials List
Appendices (Reproducibles)
A Nursery Rhymes with Common Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
B Large Letter Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
C Small Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
D Letter Boxes/Word Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
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Introduction
✤ What Is Easy Lessons ✤ sume to write a book that is similar but has
for Teaching Word Families? important differences?
I wrote Easy Lessons for Teaching Word
Easy Lessons is a practical guide for teachers Families because I was concerned that Making
that links phonemic awareness (hearing Words was too challenging for some of our first
sounds in words) with phonics (the visual graders. Before Making Words, they needed
details of print). simpler lessons closer to the “Making and
The first steps into making this important Breaking” component of the Reading
link need to be made with modeling and Recovery® lesson. As a Reading Recovery®
coaching. This hands-on activity provides sys- teacher working with the most at-risk first
tematic lessons that improve spelling, reading, graders, I do these basic lessons daily that link
phonemic awareness and phonics. In about a phonemic awareness to print while teaching
20-minute lesson, students manipulate their word patterns. Pat Cunningham was inspired
own letters to make words having high fre- by these Reading Recovery® lessons when she
quency word patterns. The group later sorts developed her word lessons (Reading Teacher,
these for common patterns and reads and September, 1992). I have since discovered that
writes more words using the sounds they have first graders in regular classrooms profit from
just practiced. The link to word patterns is Easy Lessons as they solidify the link between
further reinforced in the context of nursery sounds they hear (phonemic awareness) and
rhymes. This book is designed to be “user- which letters make those sounds (phonics). At
friendly” for teachers so it has simple lesson the kindergarten level, I have used Easy Lessons
plans and all the materials ready to make. with small groups of students who know their
letters in isolation but don’t know what to do
with them in words. ESL and Title 1 students
also benefit from teacher coaching during these
✤ Why a new book? ✤ simplified lessons using letters as manipulatives.
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practice with a letter/sound in a lesson and (cat) to read and spell unknown words (splat).
across lessons will help teach unknown letters. Before giving students individual letters to
Lessons are grouped by vowel patterns to help manipulate, I model the process and use only
teachers pick and choose lessons needed by the large letters in the pocket chart. This gives
their students. me an opportunity to talk them through the
The Wordboards provide boxes that repre- process of listening for sounds and pinpoint-
sent each sound heard in a word. These boxes ing where they hear the changes as we make a
make a 1:1 match for students linking sound new scrambled word. The new research on
to print. Putting sounds in boxes is based on phonemic awareness points out how crucial it
the work of Elkonin and is very effective in is for students to hear individual sounds in the
Reading Recovery® and in classroom practice. speech stream. When they become flexible
I wrote Easy Lessons for Teaching Word with that, I add letters to make the essential
Families also to emphasize the highest utility link to phonics.
spelling patterns. Durrell’s research found that
the 37 most common phonograms make up
500 primary words. The decoding of this unit
of print is more reliable than following old
rules we used to teach. “Two vowels go walk-
ing, the first one does the talking” is only true
in less than 50 percent of words. Pat
Cunningham (1991) reminds us that the brain
is a pattern detector, not a rule applier. There
are many word patterns we can teach, but I
wanted to build lessons based specifically on
those with the highest use for emergent read-
ers and writers. The research on onset and
rime (vowel patterns in syllables) has explained
why teachers have always had success with
what we used to call “word families,” ie. cat,
sat, chat. Treiman (1985) found that the break
of words into vowel patterns by syllables is a
“psychological reality.” Research into decoding
by analogy (Goswami and Bryant, 1990)
shows that students can use a known word
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Terminology Talk
How to describe
Teacher these terms to kids
Onset
• Consonants up to a vowel in • Letters up to a vowel in a word
a syllable (shot)
Rime
• Vowel pattern in a syllable • Chunk
(shot) • Looks the same.
• Spelling Pattern Sounds the same
Rhyme
• Words that sound the same but • Words that sound the same but
may have a different spelling may look different at the end
pattern: got, taught, fought
Nonsense
Words
• Nonsense words that may come • Words that Dr. Seuss might use
up when children brainstorm in a book he wrote.
rimes or rhymes: not, pot, zot
Phonemic
Awareness
• Hearing discreet sounds in the • “Use your ears...”
speech stream. • “Listen...”
• Hearing spoken words, sylla-
bles, sounds (phonemes)
Phonics
• Sound/Symbol Correspondence • “Use your eyes ...”
• Letters and patterns of print • “Does that look right?”
• Visual • “Look”
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c a t
ulate to make the words.
Pocket Chart
Teacher and students can manipulate large letters here to make words. They
can add word cards as they make and sort new words.
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at ate aw ay eat
op ore ot uck ug
ump unk
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STEP 1: Collect Lesson Materials Teacher: Today we are going to make a lot of
words with our letters. We’ll need to use our ears
Before the lesson, I gather materials. For Lesson to listen for sounds and we’ll need our eyes to look
#1, I will be working with the letters a, c, m, n, p, for the letters to match those sounds. Let’s make
r, t. I pull out my large letter cards (see Appendix sure you know the letter names and sounds.
B) for the pocket chart and the small paper letters What is it? (I point to the first letter, a.)
my students will use (see Appendix C). If I have What sound does it make? /a/ (I continue to
children who I think will benefit from using even quickly name letters and sounds).
more concrete manipulatives than the letter cards, Ready? Let’s make some words.
I’ll pull out the magnetic letters and trays. This Number 1, cap. The baseball player wears a
prep takes just a few minutes. cap on his head. Cap. Say it slowly: c-a-p. What
do you hear first? Put that letter in the first box.
Say it again: c-a-p... What do you hear in the
STEPS 2 & 3: Make and Coach middle? Say it again and run your finger under
the letters. What do you hear at the end? Check it
With four to ten students ready to start, we pass with your finger—does it look right?
the word boards around the table from left to (As students finish, I call one student up to
right. Then we pass and place the letters on the make the word with the large letter cards in the
bottom of each board quickly—I stress that we do pocket chart. Everyone checks his or her answer
not play with letters. by looking at the pocket chart.)
Run your finger under the word and pull the
sounds across to blend them into a word—c-a-p.
✤ Tips for Storing the Materials (Students make this motion, and blend the
I store the small letter cards in clear plastic drawers, word out loud). Good! When we read words we
which you can buy inexpensively in discount stores don’t say, /c/ /c/ /c/-/a/ /a/ /a/-/p/ /p/ /p/.
That doesn’t sound like a word, does it?
and hardware stores; they’re often sold near tool
boxes. I label each drawer with a letter. The word
#2. Now you will change one letter. Look at your
boards are in file folders beside the shelf; the 3-by-
word and see which one should be changed before
5-inch word cards are kept in envelopes marked you move any letters.
with the lesson number, stored in a plastic box. I Map. We used a map to find our way in the
keep magnetic letters and magnetic trays in nearby car. Map. Run your finger under the word—
box. The magnetic trays are actually burner covers, where do you hear the change?
which you can buy in houseware stores. (I continue to coach individuals or the group as
needed with advice, such as:
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#10. Change one letter. Man. The Teacher: Boys and girls, it’s time to look carefully
tan
man delivered a pizza to our at two letters that sometimes trick kids because
house. Man. they look alike. But let’s have sharp eyes to see how
can (Most lessons include oneor two they are different. (I show an n to the group.)
challenge words to use when Tell me what this looks like. (I accept all
man you feel children are ready for answers that describe the shape, size, direction,
more complex words.) or unique features.)
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Marta: It looks like a stool to put my feet on, all STEP 7: Can You Read?
round on top with legs.
Ryan: To me, it looks like a worm with one bump. I grab my small white board and write a couple
Karly: I see a line with one hump in front. new words for students to read/decode. In doing
Teacher: Good. You are looking carefully and it this, I am making sure that students know they can
reminds you of some things you know. It has a apply what they’ve learned in this lesson when they
short line and one bump in front. This is an n Is read independently. When they come to a word
this an n? (I show an m.) they have never seen before, they can figure it out
Ryan: No, that is a worm with two bumps. by using the chunks they know.
Akeem: No, look, there are too many bumps.
Teacher: Wow! I thought I could trick you, but Teacher: Now it’s my turn to write some words
you are looking too carefully for me to get you with the chunks you have learned. I want to see
today. Let’s look at the word cards and see how how well you can read new words. Don’t shout out
many m’s we can find. (As students locate let- your answer, just say the word softly—look for the
ters, I continue to question what makes that an part you know!
m. Then we quickly find some n’s and continue
to mention their unique physical characteristics.) I write van. We drove this on our trip.
I make sure they have all blended the sounds and
then we respond together.
STEP 6: Can You Write?
Teacher: What is the chunk in van?
Each lesson usualy ends with reading and writing (An, students say.)
words with the same word family. I have scratch That’s right! We made the word pan in our lesson
paper or white boards handy for students to write a and now you can read brand new words with that
few words using the rime patterns/word families that chunk. When your brain sees something it knows
we practiced in the lesson today. They have to make in a word that is new, the part you know will pop
links between the known and the unknown, and use right out to help you read it.
the patterns to build skills that transfer to spelling.
I repeat step 7 with the word sap.
Teacher: Now let’s write some words that are like
the words we made today. I can’t teach you every
word in the English language, but I can show you PRACTICE
how to use words you know to write words that are
new to you. Listen carefully and think about what I use the practice time to link the lesson to a nursery
chunk you hear at the end of the words I say and rhyme or other poem we have. (The poems are
then write the letters to match. either in poem boards or on pocket chart strips that
Fan. It was so hot I had to fan myself. Fan. we use for shared reading.)
Say it very slowly and then listen for the first sound—
that’s it. Now say it again. Let’s check by running Teacher: I have a poem today that has our chunk
our finger under the word. Does it look right? an in it. Let’s read “Georgy Porgy” together. (See
(Repeat process with the word lap, coaching and Appendix A for nursery rhymes and suggestions
checking as students write.) for working with them.)
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Letters: a c m n p r t
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Make: Sort :
ap an rimes
cap
map Find:
m’s and n’s
tap
Can you write?:
rap (Students write words with same patterns)
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Letters: a b c h m s t
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Make: Sort:
at ash rimes
sat
mat Find:
c’s and a’s
cat
hat Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
rash Practice:
Practice the common pattern at in
rat
“Pat-a-Cake,” “The Ten O’Clock
chat Scholar,” and “1, 2, Buckle My
(CHALLENGE)
Shoe” in Appendix A.
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Lesson 3
Letters: a b c f h m p s t
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Make: Sort:
at at am rimes
cat
Find:
cab
p’s and b’s
pat
sat Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
fat
hat ram rat
has
Can you read?:
ham (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Letters: o b c g h l p r t
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Make: Sort:
hop op ot ob rimes
cop
Find:
lop
l’s and t’s
top/
pot Can you write?:
rot (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 5
Letters: o c d k l p r t
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Make: Sort:
lot ot ock od rimes
lock Find:
rock d’s and p’s
rot Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
dot
nod clock
dock
cod Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
rod
slot sock
pod
pot Practice:
Practice the common pattern ock in
pock “Hickory Dickory Dock,” “Birds of a
plot Feather,” and “Sing a Song” in
(CHALLENGE) Appendix A.
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Letters: o c f h l k r s t
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Make: Sort:
rock ock ost rimes
sock Find:
lock c’s and o’s
lost Can you write?:
cost (Students write words with same patterns)
shock Practice:
(CHALLENGE) Practice the common pattern ock in
“Rock a Bye Baby,” “Sing a Song,”
clock and “Ten O’Clock Scholar in
(CHALLENGE) Appendix A.
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Lesson 7
Letters: i d f h k l m s t
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Make: Sort:
it it id rimes
sit
Find:
kit
h’s and d’s
fit
lit Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
hit
him bit Sid
his
Can you read?:
hid (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Letters: i h l p r s t
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Make: Sort:
rip ip it rimes
lip
Find:
hip l’s and i’s
sip
tip/ Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
pit
fit dip
sit
hit Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
lit
it flip skit
trip Practice:
(CHALLENGE)
Practice the common pattern ip
ship in “Billy, Billy” and “I Saw a Ship
(CHALLENGE) A-Sailing” in Appendix A.
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Lesson 9
Letters: i b d g n r s t w
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Make: Sort:
in in ing rimes
tin Find:
bin n’s and w’s
din
Can you write?:
win (Students write words with same patterns)
wing
fin bing
sing
ring Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
swing
(CHALLENGE)
chin king
string Practice:
(CHALLENGE)
Practice the common patterns in and
bring ing in “Sing a Song” and “Ding
(CHALLENGE) Dong Bell” in Appendix A.
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Letters: i b g n p r s t w
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Make: Sort:
ing rimes
ring (4 & 5 letter words)
bing
Find:
bring p’s and g’s
wing Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
sing
king thing
swing
Can you read?:
sting (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
ding sling
ping
spring Practice:
Practice the common pattern ing in
brings “Banbury Cross,” “Jack and Jill,” and
(CHALLENGE) “Old Mother Hubbard” in Appendix A.
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Letters: i b d k l n r s t
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Make: Sort:
ink rimes
ink (three- & four-letter words)
link Find:
blink b’s and k’s
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Letters: i g k n p r s w
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Make: Sort:
pin in ing ink rimes
win
Find:
kin r’s and n’s
king
ring Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
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Letters: u b c g h k r s t
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Make: Sort:
ug uck rimes
bus
bug Find:
b’s and h’s
hug
hut Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
rut jug duck
rug
Can you read?:
tug (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
buck Practice:
Practice the common pattern uck
suck
in “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe”
chug and “Hickory Dickory Dock” in
(CHALLENGE) Appendix A.
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Letters: u b d h j m p r
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Make: Sort:
mud ump um rimes
bud
Find:
bum u’s and m’s
bump
jump Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 15
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Letters: u b c d k l n s
✤
Make: Sort:
unk uck ump rimes
sunk
dunk Find:
m’s and n’s
bunk
buck Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
suck
yuck junk
duck
dump Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 16
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Letters: e b j l l s t w y
✤
Make: Sort:
ell et rimes
bet
bell Find:
j ’s and y’s
sell
set Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
jet tell spell
jell
Can you read?:
well (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
yet Practice:
Practice the common pattern ell
yell
in “Cock-Crow,” “Jack and Jill,”
yells “Banbury Cross,” and “The
(CHALLENGE) Pumpkin Eater” in Appendix A.
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Lesson 17
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Letters: e b f h l l m s t
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Make: Sort:
bet ell elt rimes
set Find:
met f ’s and t ’s
melt
Can you write?:
belt (Students write words with same patterns)
felt
jell pelt
fell
bell Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
tell
welt yell
sell
smell Practice:
(CHALLENGE) Practice the common pattern ell in
“The Pumpkin Eater,” “Little Bo Peep,”
shell
(CHALLENGE) and “Jack and Jill” in Appendix A.
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Lesson 18
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Letters: e b n p s t t
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Make: Sort:
pet est et ent rimes
set
Find:
bet
b’s and p’s
net/
ten Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
tent
went rest
bent
best Can you read?:
nest (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 19
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Letters: a i f n p r s
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Make: Sort:
sap ap an ip in rimes
nap/
Find:
pan r’s and n’s
pin/
nip Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 20
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Letters: a i b c f h p s t
✤
Make: Sort:
at at it rimes
cat Find:
fat h’s and b’s
bat
Can you write?:
bit (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 21
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Letters: a i b c k r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
at at ack ick rimes
rat
cat Find:
bat c’s and a’s
back
rack Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
tack
pack chick
track
sack Can you read?:
stack (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 22
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Letters: a i c d f h r s w
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Make: Sort:
ash ish as rimes
as
has/ Find:
d’s and h’s
ash
Can you write?:
cash (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 23
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Letters: a e b c n p r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
cat at an est rimes
can
Find:
pan
a’s and e’s
pen
pet Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
pat
nest jet
bat
bet Can you read?:
best (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 24
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Letters: o u c g h n p r t
✤
Make: Sort:
cut ug ot ut rimes
hut
Find:
hot p’s and g’s
rot
pot Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 25
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Letters: o u b c h m p r t
✤
Make: Sort:
mob op ot rimes
mop
Find:
hop
c’s and o’s
cop
cup Can you write?:
cub (Students write words with same patterns)
shop shot
rub
rob
Can you read?:
rot (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 26
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Letters: e i b l l m p s t
✤
Make: Sort:
it ell ill it rimes
lit
bit Find:
l’s and t ’s
pit
pill Can you write?:
mill (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 27
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Letters: o e c d k p r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
sod est ock ot rimes
pod
pot Find:
rot p’s and d ’s
cot
dot Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
dock
jest clock
sock
rock Can you read?:
rod (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 28
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Letters: a e b k l n p s t
✤
Make: Sort:
an ale an ank rimes
pan/
nap Find:
nab/ p’s and b’s
ban
bank Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
sank
gale van
tank
lank
Can you read?:
lap/ (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 29
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Letters: a e b c k l m s t
✤
Make: Sort:
came ack ame rimes
same
tame Find:
lame l ’s and b’s
blame
Can you write?:
black (Students write words with same patterns)
backs Practice:
(CHALLENGE)
Practice the common patterns
tacks ack and ame in “Jack and Jill”
(CHALLENGE)
in Appendix A.
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Lesson 30
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Letters: a e b c h k l s t
✤
Make: Sort:
at at ate ake rimes
bat
cat Find:
sat h’s and b’s
hat
hate Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
late
date bake
lake
bake
Can you read?:
cake (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 31
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Letters: a e c m n p s t
✤
Make: Sort:
an an ap ame rimes
tan
pan/ Find:
nap n’s and m’s
cap
Can you write?:
tap (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 32
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Letters: a e b k l m s t
✤
Make: Sort:
ale ake ale rimes
sale
Find:
tale
k’s and b’s
stale
stake Can you write?:
sake (Students write words with same patterns)
scale flake
take
bake
Can you read?:
bale (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 33
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Letters: e o c h k m p r s
✤
Make: Sort:
mop op oke rimes
hop Find:
cop h’s and k’s
crop
Can you write?:
chop (Students write words with same patterns)
woke slop
poke
coke Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
choke
crop broke
smoke
spoke Practice:
Practice the common pattern oke in
chops “Jack and Jill” and “Little Bo Peep”
(CHALLENGE)
in Appendix A.
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Lesson 34
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Letters: e o c h k m r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
coke ock oke rimes
choke Find:
smoke c’s and s’s
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Lesson 35
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Letters: e o b c h k r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
ore ore oke rimes
core
Find:
score
t ’s and k’s
store
stoke Can you write?:
choke (Students write words with same patterns)
poke tore
chore
shore
Can you read?:
sore (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 36
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Letters: e i c d n p r t w
✤
Make: Sort:
ice ide ice rimes
twice Find:
dice c’s and e’s
hide spice
pride
ride Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 37
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Letters: e i d n p r t w
✤
Make: Sort:
in in ine ide rimes
din
Find:
win
w ’s and n’s
wine
wide Can you write?:
ride (Students write words with same patterns)
nine slide
tide
tin Can you read?:
pin (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 38
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Letters: e i d f l l m n p
✤
Make: Sort:
in in ine ill rimes
fin Find:
fine d’s and p’s
pine
Can you write?:
pin (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 39
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Letters: e i c f k l m n p
✤
Make: Sort:
in ice ine ick rimes
kin
fin Find:
fine l ’s and k’s
pine
Can you write?:
line (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 40
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Letters: a c l p s t w
✤
Make: Sort:
at at ap aw rimes
cat
Find:
pat/ t’s and l ’s
tap
lap Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 41
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Letters: a l p r s t w y
✤
Make: Sort:
way aw ay rimes
lay
Find:
law
w ’s and y’s
saw
say Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
pay
hay draw
paw
raw Can you read?:
ray (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 42
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Letters: a l m p r s w
Review the two sounds of a used in this lesson.
✤
Make: Sort:
ma an ap aw rimes
pa
paw Find:
pan m’s and w’s
ran
Can you write?:
raw (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 43
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Letters: a y h m n p r s s
✤
Make: Sort:
an an ay ash rimes
man
pan Find:
ran y ’s and h’s
rash
Can you write?:
sash (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 44
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Letters: o g h l n p r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
so ot op o rimes
go
no Find:
not h’s and n’s
pot
lot Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
got
shot flop
rot
hot Can you read?:
hop (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 45
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Letters: i b f g h l r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
it it ight rimes
lit Find:
light r ’s and h’s
right
Can you write?:
sight (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 46
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Letters: i g h k l n r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
king ink ing ight rimes
sting Find:
sing l’s and h’s
sink
Can you write?:
sight (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 47
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Letters: i b f g h n r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
in in it ight rimes
fin
tin Find:
bin r ’s and n’s
bit
hit Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
sit
tight skin
fit
fight
Can you read?:
sight (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Lesson 48
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Letters: a u b c d k l n p r
✤
Make: Sort:
an an ank unk rimes
ban
ran Find:
pan u’s and n’s
plan
plank Can you write?:
blank (Students write words with same patterns)
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Lesson 49
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Letters: a i l n p r s t
✤
Make: Sort:
in ail ain in ip rimes
tin
pin Find:
pain
l ’s and t ’s
rain
rip
rap Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
tip
jail gain
nip
nap
nail Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
rail
brain mail
sail
snail
sprain Practice:
(CHALLENGE) Practice the common pattern ain
trail in “Rain” in Appendix A.
(CHALLENGE)
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ore ame ore are rimes
core
Find:
care
m’s and r ’s
fare
fore Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
fame
name store
game
gore Can you read?:
(Teacher writes the word for them to read)
more
shore blame
lore
lame Practice:
flame Practice the common pattern ame in
glare “Georgy Porgy” and “Old Mother
(CHALLENGE) Hubbard” in Appendix A.
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Make: Sort:
tan ail ain ip ap rimes
pan
pal Find:
pail
i’s and l’s
pain
rain
rail Can you write?:
sail (Students write words with same patterns)
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Make: Sort:
sap ail ill ip ap rimes
sip
lip Find:
tip t ’s and i ’s
tap
lap/ Can you write?:
pal (Students write words with same patterns)
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Make: Sort:
ate ate eat rimes
mate/
Find:
meat
p’s and a’s
heat/
hate Can you write?:
(Students write words with same patterns)
Nate/
Note that
you need
a capital.
gate heat
neat
peat Can you read?:
pleat/ (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Make: Sort:
tag ate ug rimes
tug/
gut Find:
get r ’s and u’s
gate
rate Can you write?:
rag (Students write words with same patterns)
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Make: Sort:
pin ain an ank in ink rimes
pain
pan
plan Find:
plank p’s and b’s
bank
ban
Can you write?:
bran (Students write words with same patterns)
brain
thank think
stain
stank
sank Can you read?:
sink (Teacher writes the word for them to read)
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Appendix A
Included in Appendix A are some of your favorite nursery rhymes to use for reading practice and an
opportunity to work with common word patterns/chunks. Over a period of one to two weeks, work on
phonics with the poem in a pocket chart on sentence strips
4. Group work:
• Mix up sentence strips and rebuild the poem.
• Match with extra sentence strips, then words and letters.
• Substitutions: “I’m going to trick you, look closely.”
Inventions: Substitute word cards that change the poem.
Errors: Substitute letters that will change the poem.
Spoonerisms: Switch letters from words that are in the poem.
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NURSERY RHYMES RIMES LESSON NUMBERS
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1,2 Buckle My Shoe at, ay, ick, ight, ine, uck 2, 13, 38
Banbury Cross an, ell, ide, ing, ock 10, 16, 37, 42
Billy, Billy aw, ay, ight, ill, ine, ing, ip 19, 41, 52
Birds of a Feather at, ice, ill, ine, ock 5, 36, 38, 39, 52
Cock-Crow ate, ay, ell, ill, ock 16, 30, 41, 54
Cross Patch ake, aw, in, ink, it 7, 11, 55
Ding, Dong Bell at, ell, ice, ill, in, ing, it 12, 20, 36, 46
Georgy Porgy ame, an, ay, ing 1, 42, 48, 50
Hickory, Dickory Dock an, ick, ock, uck 5, 13, 27, 34
Humpty Dumpty at, ing, ot, ump 12, 14, 15, 46
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing ack, ail, ain, an, ap, aw, ice, in, ing, ip, it, uck 8, 19, 42
If All the Seas Were One Sea an, ash, at, eat, in, it 23, 43, 45
Jack and Jill ack, ail, ame, ell, ill, ing, oke 7, 10, 16, 17, 29, 33, 35
Jack Sprat ack, at, eat, ick 3, 21, 40, 48
Little Bo Peep ail, eat, ell, ill, ing, it, oke 17, 33, 35, 51, 52, 53
Little Boy Blue ack, ake, ay, ill, in, it, ot 4, 26, 28, 52
Little Miss Muffet ame, at, ay, eat, ight, ing, it 3, 20, 40, 47, 53
Old Mother Hubbard ack, all, ame, at, ide, ing, ot 10, 24, 37, 44, 50
Pat-a-Cake ake, an, at, ick, in, it 2, 7, 23, 48
Pease Porridge ay, in, ine, it, ot 4, 24, 38, 44
Rain ain, an, ay, it 41, 43, 45, 49
Rock-a-Bye Baby ill, ock, op 6, 25, 27
Simple Simon ail, ale, an, ay, ick, ing, ot 1, 24, 28, 44, 51
Sing a Song ack, ake, ame, an, ap, at, eat, in, ing, ock, ot 4, 5, 6, 9, 27, 28, 31, 53
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The Cat and the Fiddle an, at, ay, it, ump 1, 15, 20, 23, 34
The Clever Hen ake, ale, an, at, ill, it 7, 26, 28, 32
The Greedy Man ake, an, ate, it 30, 45, 54
The Hobby Horse ail, an, ap, aw, ay, ing, it 12, 31, 41, 45, 51
The Pumpkin Eater eat, ell, in, ump 14, 16, 17, 53
The Ten O’Clock Scholar ake, at, ill, ock 2, 6, 26, 34
Thirty Days Hath September at, ay, est, ing 3, 18, 40, 46
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in, ink it 11, 12, 55
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1, 2, Buckle My Shoe
1, 2, Buckle my shoe
5, 6, Pick up sticks
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Banbury Cross
Ride a cock-horse
To Banbury Cross,
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Billy, Billy
“Billy, Billy come and play,
While the sun shines bright as day.”
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Birds of a Feather
Birds of a feather f lock together
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Cock-Crow
Cocks crow in the morn
To tell us to rise,
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Cross Patch
Cross patch, draw the latch,
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Georgy Porgy
Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie,
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Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty
Sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty
Had a great fall.
All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Cannot put Humpty
Dumpty together again.
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And Jill
came
tumbling
after.
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Jack Sprat
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
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Little Bo-Peep
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can’t tell where to find them;
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Pat-a-Cake
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake,
Baker’s man!
Bake me a cake
As fast as you can.
Pat it, and prick it,
And mark it with T,
Put it in the oven
For Tommy and me.
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Pease Porridge
Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot,
Nine days old.
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Rain
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again
another day;
Little Johnny wants
to play.
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Rock-a-bye Baby
Rock-a-bye baby
On the treetop,
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall,
And down will come
baby,
Cradle, and all.
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Simple Simon
Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair:
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Let me taste your ware.”
Sing a Song
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four-and-twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
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A diller, a dollar,
A ten o’clock scholar
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How I wonder
what you are!
Like a diamond
in the sky.
Twinkle, Twinkle,
little star,
How I wonder
what you are!
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Appendix B
Large letter cards are used to manipulate letters in the pocket chart for the small group to
check. The black line masters are ready to be run on heavy paper such as cardstock. Run the
vowels on pink cardstock and the consonnants on white. With the vowels in a different color,
the vowel patterns are easily visible.
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a e
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u y
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J k
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n p
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s t
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x y
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Appendix C
Print small letters for students to manipulate as they make words. Print vowels on pink card-
stock and the consonnants on white cardstock so that vowel patterns are visible.
For small group work, 40 of each letter will last for many years. Vowels are seven to a
page, so copy six of each vowel page on pink. Consonants are two to a page, so copy
twenty of each consonant page on white. Extra letters can be run for an ABC Center.
• small sandwich bags kept in a basket or tub (all of the same letter in one bag)
• plastic drawer case, found with tool kits at places like Target, K-Mart, Walmart, Sears,
etc. The ideal has 30 drawers. Each drawer is passed for students to take out letters
needed for a particular lesson.
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i
a a a a a a a
i
i
i
i
i
i
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o o o o o o o
y y y y y y y
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f g g h h Jj Jj
b b c c d d f
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s s t t v v w
w x x y y z z
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Appendix D
Wordboards with letter boxes provide a workspace while children build words. Run the
workspaces on cardstock.
Choose the wordboard that matches the majority of words in the lesson you are doing.
For example, if the majority of the words are 3 letter words, use the wordboard with 3
boxes. If there is an occasional word with an extra letter, teach students to put it after the
last box.
Teach students to “push sounds in boxes.” This technique from Reading Recovery®
forces students to say a word slowly and match each sound with a box going left to right.
Model and practice:
1. Put their finger under the first box and say the first sound only as they move their
finger up into the box.
2. Hold that sound as they move their finger down under the next box. Say the next
sound as their finger moves into the corresponding box.
5. Students match letters to the sound they heard and make changes in boxes where
a new word necessitates a change.
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Professional Resources
Adams, Marilyn, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning Print About Print.
Cambridge: M.I.T Press, 1990.
Bear, Donald R., Shane Templeton, Marcia Invernizzi, & Francine Johnston,
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction,
Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Cunningham, Patricia., Dorothy Hall, Making Words, Carthage, Illinois: Good Apple, 1994.
Cunningham, Patricia., Dorothy Hall, Making Big Words, Parsippany, New Jersey:
Good Apple, 1994.
Cunningham, Patricia., Phonics They Use, New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
Cunningham, Patricia., Dorothy Hall, Making More Words, Parsippany, New Jersey:
Good Apple, 1997.
Goswami, U., and Bryant, P., Phonological Skills and Learning to Read. East Sussex, UK:
Erlbaum Associated, 1990.
Johnson, Terry and Daphne Louis, Literacy Through Literature, Portsmouth, NH:
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Trieman, R. “Onsets and Rimes as Units of Spoken Syllables: Evidence from Children,”
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 39, 161–181, 1985.
Young, Sue, The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary, New York: Scholastic, 1994.
Videos are available for staff development on Making Words and Easy Lessons for Teaching
Word Families. Judy models these strategies with kindergartners, and first and second
graders from her school. Contact: Bureau of Education and Research
P.O. Box 96068
Bellevue, WA 98009
(800) 735-3503
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with an incredible K–3 team doing literacy support. When she is not
teaching, Judy works with teachers and school districts across the United
States and Canada. Her passion is teaching all children to read. Her jour-
in reading and language arts. All of her study of research and new strate-
gies has been applied to the first graders and other primary students she
teaches. Judy has been married for 28 years to a football coach and they
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