Rosa Agazzi bilingüal School

Phonics Miss. Tania Pineda

Consonants pattern (ng, nk, Ph, who): is when one word has two consonant letters.

Examples with ng: young, strong

Examples with nk: thanksgiving, think

Examples with ph: nephew, elephant
Examples with wh: whisper
We can say that the consonant patterns can be divided into two different patterns which are:
Blend words: are words that when we put them together we can identify the sound of each one for
example bl: blame, fl: flower, gl: glove if you pronounce these words to can identify the sound of F and
L in the word Flower.
Diagraph wors: is when we put two letters together we have only one sound for example /sh/ show,
shower, in this words when we put together the letters /s/ and /h/ we get one sound like shshsh.
Homophone: are words that have different meaning and are spelleddiferrent but the pronunciation is the
same: Example: bye/buy we have bye that is farewell and the word buy that means to go to store get
something and pay for that. More examples; cell/sell, ate/eight.
Prefixes: are the one to three syllable affixes added to the beginning or base word to slightly change its
meqning. For example: we have the word true which the base form and when we add the two syllables
un we get the new word untrue in this we create a new word with different meaning.

More examples: dis+agree we get the word disagree, in+active we get the word inactive.