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ACTION PATTERNS & SOUNDS & TYPES These patterns represent frequently used spelling patterns in the English . While these spelling patterns help figure out many , there are many exceptions to the patterns. Therefore, a reader often needs to try other sound possibilities and to figure out words from the context, or find out the some other way. 9 or 99 = letter/s 999 = syllable or word * = pattern with more than one sound

Pattern Sound Key Words (2) (with R as the consonant) 1. Closed 9 are like word air care, share, dare 9 o 9 /-o/ odd, hot, box 9 ore like word or store, more, bore 9 i 9 /-i/ icky, sit, igloo 9 ere like word ear here, mere 9 a 9 /-a/ apple, had, am 9 ire /2ir/ fire, wire, Ire(land) 9 u 9 /-u/ up, cut, mud 9 ure /2ur/ , /oor/ pure, (ma)ture 9 e 9 /-e/ Ed, wet, red

2. Silent E Syllables Pattern Sound Key Words 9 a 9 e /2a/ ace, make, came 5. Vowel Combination Syllables 9 9 e e /2e/ Pete, these, eke 9 ee 9 /2e/ eel, feed, see 9 9 i e /2i/ ice, hide, like 9 oa 9 /o2/ oak, boat, soap 9 9 u e* /2u/, /oo/ cute, tune, June *rule 9 ay 9 /2a/ day, play 9 9 o e* /o2/ home, rode 9 ai 9 /2a/ rain, nail /-u/ come, love, done 9 oo 9* /oo/ moon, school 3. Open Syllables* /oo/ look, wood, good 9 a /2a/ acorn, baby, table 9 ow 9* /o2/ row, tow 9 e /2e/ me, meter, secret /ow/, how, cow, tower 9 i /2i/ hi, silent. tiger 9 ea 9* /2e/ eat, meat, bean 9 u /2u/ unicorn, music /-e/ head, treasure 9 o /o2/ open, solo /2a/ great, break 4. R-Controlled Syllables 9 ew 9 /oo/, /2u/ new, dew, pew 9 ar like word are car, jar, art 9 ie 9* /i/ pie, cries 9 or like word or or, fork, sort /2e/ chief, niece 9 er /:er/ her, fern 9 oi 9 /oy/ boil, oil, noise 9 ir /:er/ irk, shirt, first 9 oy /oy/ boy, soy, loyal 9 ur /:er/ hurt, urn, nurse 9 aw /aw/ awe, awful, straw *italicized parts are not open syllables Vowel Combinations (cont’d) 9 ou 9* /ou/ out, house

Pattern Sound Key Words /o2/ shoulder, poultry 9 9 au /aw/ August, haul /oo/ soup, group 9 igh 9 /i/ high, light 2 /-u/ famous, rough 9 9 eigh /2a/ neighbor, eight /aw/ cough, thought 9 ui 9 /2u/, /oo/ suit, juice

6. Consonant-L-E Other Phonograms Syllable ble - table Pattern Sound Key Words dle - candle 9 9 gle - eagle al like word all fall, salt, mall fle - ruffle 9 wa 9 /wah/ want, water, wash ple - purple tle - bottle 999 ed* /-ed/ started, landed sle - hassle /d/ smiled, peeled zle - puzzle cle - bicycle /t/ milked, leaked kle - buckle 9 wor like word were worship, work, world stle- whistle 9 ear* like word ear ear, hear, fear

like word air pear, bear, wear

/:er/ learn, heard, search 9 y /2i/ my, by, try, sly, shy 999 y /2e/ baby, daddy, funny 9 ind /2ind/ kind, find, blind 9 old /o2ld/ cold, old, mold, bold

First Vowel Sound in Two-Syllable Words 9 a 9 e 9 /2a/ taking, planer

9 a 99 e 9 /-a/ tacking, planner 9 i 99 e 9 /-i / dinner, winning 9 e 9 e 9 /2e/ fever, Peter, seven, devil 9 o 9 e 9 /2o/ homes, hoping, 9 e 99 e 9 /-e/ better, petting, wetted 9 o 99 e 9 /-o/ hotter, hopping 9 i 9 e 9 /2i / diner, finest 9 u 9 e 9 /2u/ cuter, muted, music

9 u 99 e 9 /-u/ cutter, pudding, funny For VCV words, try (a) long (b) short (c) other E:\0 - -CLASSES-LBL\0 - 420sp2001\Vowel Sounds & Syllable Types.wpd