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The words in each column may have the same vowel sounds but did you notice

they are not all spelled the same way. Today we are going to talk about two

of the ways long vowel sounds can be spelled.

came

dream

mile

road

cube

stay

week

while

drove

rule

ate

year

nice

home

use

wave

real

lie

those

juice

grape

eat

quite

home

blue

face

peach

pie

Instructional Input:

Today we will be looking at two ways to spell long vowel sounds. The first is VCe.

Here you will see a VC and silent e at the end. With this pattern the first vowel is

long and the e at the end is silent. On my chart I am going to write the pattern

along with a description.

Add VCe with the pattern/rule.

Another spelling pattern for the long vowel sound is VV. In this pattern when two

vowels are side by side the first one is usually long and the second one is silent.

On my chart I am going to write the pattern along with a description.

Add VV with the pattern/rule.

Now let’s see if we can use these two patterns to decode some of the words from

our book.

Modeling/Demonstrating: (How will you model for your students what an

expert reader would do?)

As I look at the words with the long a sound /ā/ -bake, hair -I notice that

this one (bake-select the word but do not say it) uses the VCe pattern.

When I sound out the word using this pattern the first vowel will be long and

the e at the end will be silent; it will sound like, /b/ /ā/ /k/->bake. I am

going to add them under the VCe label on the chart.

Add the words in the chart.

As I look at the next word with the long ‘a’ vowel sound I also notice that

this word (hair-select the word card but do not say the word) uses the VV

pattern. When I sound out the word using this pattern the first vowel will be

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