ABOUT THIS BOOK vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii INTRODUCTION xiii ABOUT PHONICS PATHWAYS 1 GETTING STARTED 3 TEACHING AID: SHORT-VOWEL STICK 4 GAME: SHORT-VOWEL SHUFFLE 5 SHORT-VOWEL SOUNDS 10 GAME: Short-Vowel Review (Bingo) 16 TWO-LETTER BLENDS (Eyerobics) 17 GAME: THE TRAIN GAME 20 GAME: STARSEARCH 37 THREE-LETTER WORDS 39 GAME: BAG THE BUGS 48 PYRAMID 52 /K/ = C-, K-, -CK 53 TWO-CONSONANT ENDINGS 58 -Y SUFFIX 70 TWIN-CONSONANT ENDINGS 74 FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Real and Nonsense Words 75 CONSONANT DIGRAPH ENDINGS: -sh, -th, -ch, -tch 76 FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Consonant Digraph Nonsense Words 83 SIMPLE LONG-VOWEL SOUNDS 90 FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: Short- and Long-Vowel Nonsense Words 109 SUFFIXES 110 SUFFIX SPELLING CHART 115 MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 117 /k/ = -ic, -ick 118 DIVIDING MULTISYLLABLE WORDS 119 PLURAL, POSSESSIVE, AND X 121 CONSONANT DIGRAPH BEGINNINGS: sh-, ch-, wh-, th-, qu- 123 TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS: bl-, fl-, pl-, cl-, gl-, sl- 133 FUN AND GAMES 138 TWO-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS : sm-, sn-, st-, sp-, sc-, sk- 139 R-MODIFIED VOWELS 149 LONG-VOWEL DIGRAPHS 159 /S/ = ce, ci, cy: /C/ = ei 173 VOWEL DIPHTHONGS: /oi/ = oi, oy; /ou/ = ou, ow 176 FLUENCY REALITY CHECK: /j/ = -ge, gi-, & -dge Nonsense words 184 -Y, -IE PLUS SUFFIXES 185 -F = -VES 186 NEW VOWEL SOUNDS 188 /OO/ = oo, oul, u; /O/ = au, aw, al, all, o 189 THREE-CONSONANT BEGINNINGS 195 SHORT-VOWEL SPELLING PATTERNS 199 / / = ea, a, ai; / / = y, ui; / / = a; / / = o, ou, oo, a 199 SCHWA 203 CONTRACTIONS 206 SILENT LETTERS: -le, k, w, l, b, t, h 208 SILENT GH: /I/ = igh; /O/ = ough, augh; /O/ = ough; /ou/ = ough 213 /A/ SPELLING PATTERNS: /A/ = ei, eigh, ey, ea 216 S = /z/, /zh/, /sh/; /F/ = ph, gh; /K/ = ch 219 ANOTHER R-MODIFIED VOWEL SOUND 224 A SPELLING GRAB BAG 226 Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs 226 Multisyllable Words with Suffixes 228 -ce, -ge; -able, -ible 229 PREFIXES: pre-, sub-, re-, auto-, un-, dis-, inter-, super- 230 MORE SUFFIXES: -tion, -sion, -able, -ness, -ful, -less, -ment 233 COMPOUND WORDS 236 BUILDING BLOCKS 237 APPENDIX A: REFERENCE & SUPPLEMENTAL PRACTICE 243 Spelling Strategies 243 Index to Spelling Rules and Patterns 244 Spelling & Pronunciation Chart 245 Plural Spelling Chart 247 Suffix Spelling Chart 248 Student Achievement Chart 249 Student Progress Notes 250 Vision and Motor Coordination Training Exercises 251 Pyramid 253 APPENDIX B: GAMES AND ACTIVITIES 255 Hot Tips 255 The Short Sheet of Vowels 256 The Shoo-Fly Shuffle (a.k.a. Short-Vowel Shuffle) 257 The Train Game 258 Blendit! (Similar to Bingo) 260 StarSearch 261 Bag the Bugs 262 REVIEWS AND RESULTS 263 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 266