1. W ithin Word Pattern Spellers
Short and Long Vowel Sounds
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Picture Sorts
1 Picture sort for long and short A
2 Picture sort for long and short I
3 Picture sort for long and short O
4 Picture sort for long and short U
5 Picture sort for long and short E
6 Review of long vowels with word matches
assessment Matching Long Vowel Sounds with Letters
• The Rain Game (short and long a, i, o)
activities Dominoes
• Long & Short Vowel Dominoes (short & long a, i, o)
• Vowel Zoo (all vowels)
Sorts Contrasting Short and Long
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Vowel Patterns
7 Short A versus long A (CVCe)
8 Short I versus long I (CVCe)
9 Short O versus long O (CVCe)
10 Short U versus long U (CVCe)
11 Short versus long (CVC and CVCe)
12 Final /K/ sound spelled CK, KE, or K
assessment Matching Long and Short Vowel Sounds with Letters
Dice
• Roll the Dice (-ake, -ap, -oke, -ot families)
activities • Wizard Spells (CVCe a, i, o words)
• Vowel Fish (all vowels)

2. Common Long-Vowel Patterns
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(CVCe and CVVC)
13 Short A and long A (CVCe and CVVC)
14 Short O and long O (CVCe and CVVC)
15 Short U and long U (CVCe and CVVC)
16 Short E and long E (CVCe and CVVC)
17 “The Devil Sort” short E (CVC and CVVC) and Long E (CVVC)
18 Review for CVVC pattern (AI, -OA, -EE, -EA)
assessment Reading and Writing Words with Simple Vowel Clusters
• Blooming (long a and long o patterns)
activities • Clean Sweep (long e, long o, and long u patterns)
• Vowel Pattern Rummy (ai, oa, ee, ea patterns)
Sort Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns
19 Short A and long A (CVCe, CVVC-AI, and open syllable AY)
20 Short O and long O (CVCe, CVVC-OA, & open syllable OW)
21 Short U and long U (open syllable EW and UE)
22 Short I and long I (CVCe, CVVC-IGH, and open syllable -Y)
23 Short I and long I (VCC) with short O and Long O (VCC)
24 Review of long vowel patterns
assessment Less Common Long-Vowel Assessment
• Brave the Rapids (short a and long a vowel patterns)
activities • Long o UNO! (short o and long o patterns)
• Crazy Eights (short i and long i patterns)
Sort R-Influenced Vowel Patterns
25 AR, ARE, AIR
26 ER,EAR, EER
27 IR, IRE, IER
28 OR, ORE, OAR
29 UR, URE, UR-E
30 Review of AR, SCHWA-PLUS-R, and OR
assessment Assessment for R-Influenced Vowels
• Star Words (ar, are, air patterns)
activities • Cheers or Tears? (er, ear, eer patterns)
• Soaring! (or, ore, oar, ur, ure, ur-e patterns)

3. Diphthongs and Other Ambiguous
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Vowel Sounds
31 OI, OY
32 OO,OO
33 AW,AU
34 WA, AL,OU
35 OU, OW
assessment Diphthongs and Ambiguous Vowel Sort
• Toy Store (oi and oy)
activities
• Double Sound Dominoes (ow/ow, y/y, and oo/oo)
Beginning and Ending Complex
Sort Consonants and Consonant Clusters
36 Silent Beginning Consonant Sort KN, WR, GN
37 Triple R-Blends SCR, STR, SPR
38 Consonant Digraphs THR, SHR, SQU
assessment Spell Check 6 Assessment for Beginning Clusters
39 Hard and Soft C and G
40 -CE, -VE, -SE
assessment Spell Check 7
41 -DGE, -GE
42 TCH, CH
assessment Spell Check 8 for Complex Consonant Clusters
• SQUISH! (thr, shr, squ, str, spr, scr)
activities Lamp
• Magic Lamp (hard and soft c and g)
• Switch (dge, ch, r+ch, n+ch, tch)
High Frequency Words and
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Contractions
43 High Frequency Words Starting with A- and BE-
assessment Spell Check 9
44 Contractions with not, is, have, and will
assessment Understanding and Forming Contractions
• Around the World (words starting with a- and be-)
activities
• Contraction Action (contractions with not, is, have, and will)

4. Inflectional Endings for Plural and
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Past Tense
45 Plural Endings S and ES
assessment Forming Plurals with S and ES
46 Three Sounds of the Past Tense ED
assessment Spell Check 11 Past Tense Check
activities • Signed, Sealed, Delivered (three sounds of the past tense)
Inflectional Endings for Plural and
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Past Tense
47 Long-a Homophones
48 Shot and Long-i Homophones
activities