Working with Words & Active Participation

Consonant Pairs

Label Quiet Noisy

Lip Poppers /p/ /b/

Tongue Tappers /t/ /d/

Tongue Scrapers /k/ /g/

Lip Coolers /f/ /v/

Tongue Coolers /th/ /th/

Skinny Air /s/ /z/

Fat Air /sh/ /zh/

Fat-pushed Air /ch/ /j/

Other Consonant Groups

Label Consonant Group

Nose sounds /m/ /n/ /ng/

Wind sounds /w/ /h/ /wh/

Lifters /l/ /r/

Borrowers ‘c’ ‘x’ ‘qu’ ‘y’

Vowel Circle: Try this…

• Place your hand under your chin and say only the vowel phoneme in each of these words.

– meet, ick, egg, ape, am, up, Tom, Paul, foe, book, loot

Did you feel it?

The Vowel Circle

• Shack

Using Felts for Syllable Segmentation and

Sequencing• Use felts to represent the syllables in a

word

• Learn to listen for the accented syllable

chamber

Speaking of GK…

• White side is all consonant sounds– Consonants– Digraphs

• Colored side is all vowel sounds– Green cards- short vowels– Blue cards- diphthongs– Yellow cards- long vowels

• Closed Syllable ends with a consonant has only one vowel that is usually short

• Open Syllable ends with a vowel has only one vowel that is usually long

• vCe Syllable has one vowel followed by a consonant and a silent ‘e’ vowel is usually long

• r-Controlled Syllable has a vowel followed by ‘r’; ‘r’ makes the vowel say something different

• Vowel Team Syllable has a group of two or more vowels side by side usually ends with a consonant

• Consonant + le Syllable is always at the end of a word; ‘e’ is silent

• Final Stable Syllable is always at the end of a word; is non-decodable but predictable

Things to Remember

• Do not ‘card’ – Prefixes (we know those)– Suffixes (we know those too)– Consonant+le or Final Stable (they are

non-decodable, but predictable)

• Each felt represents a syllable (use felts 1st, then ‘card’)

• If you experience the same phoneme in a word, turn another colored card over to represent the second sound