Please contact me if you have any questions in regards to our “spelling” program. Wilson’s Fundation Program has a specific approach to teaching phonics and concepts may be confusing at time. Please do not hesitate to ask questions or ask for further explanation of a phonetic concept!
Week of November 7th through November 11th
Consonant Sounds
(When given the sound, students should identify the letter or letters.)
b-bat-/b/ c-cat-/k/ d-dog-/d/ f-fun-/f/ g-game-/g/ h-hat-/h/ j-jug-/j/ k-kite-/k/ l-lamp-/l/ m-man-/m/ n-nut-/n/ p-pan-/p/ qu-queen-/kw/ r-rat-/r/ s-snake-/s/ t-top-/t/ v-van-/v/ w-wind-/w/ x-fox-/ks/ y-yellow-/y/
z-zebra-/z/
Vowel Sounds
(When given the sound, students should identify the letter or letters.)
a-apple-/ă/ e-Ed-/ĕ/ i-itch-/ĭ/ o-octopus-/ŏ/ u-up-/ŭ/
Digraph Sounds
(When given the sound, students should identify the letters.)
wh-whistle-/w/ sh-ship-/sh/ ch-chin-/ch/ th-thumb-/th/ ck-sock-/k/
Phonetic Concepts
- Phonemic Awareness: sound manipulation (initial, final, medial sounds)
- Blending and reading three sound short vowel words and words with consonant digraphs
- Bonus Letter Spelling Rule: ff, ll, ss and sometimes z
- At the end of a one syllable word, if the word has one vowel immediately followed by an f, l, or s at the end, double that consonant.
- New Concept- Glued Sounds
- all, as in ball- /ol/ am, as in ham- /am/ an, as in fan- /an/
- The vowels are somewhat changed from a pure short vowel to a more nasalized vowel.
- Segmenting and spelling three sound short vowel words and words with consonant digraphs
- Sentence Dictation: capitalization, punctuation (end mark) and proofreading
Example Words (Examples of words which follow the unit’s phonetic concept.)
Ham Sam can than pan man fan Jan am jam Dan tan Pam ran bam ram Nan van call ball wall tall fall hall chill shell mess Bess
Trick Words (Trick words do not follow any phonetic rules and must be memorized.)
from or have
