Sound/Spelling%20Patterns

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Sound/Spelling Patterns

• Unusual Consonant Spelling Patterns
• Final Consonant Sounds and Spellings

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Sound/spelling relationships Irregular

• Because English has been influenced by so many
  languages, sound/spelling relationships are
  irregular.
• Listen to the letter g in these words.
• Get
• Agent
• Beige

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Sh sound

• Share
• Social
• Sugar
• Ratio
• Assure
• Machine

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American Government

• Were going to do this reading twice
• Listen for meaning.
• Focus on the sounds of the italicized spellings.

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Unusual Consonant Spelling Patterns

• The / /sound is commonly spelled sh as in shoe.
• The / / sound is commonly spelled ch as in
  choose.
• The / / sound in measure never occurs at the
  beginning of words.
• The / / sound is commonly spelled j (job) and g
  (general).

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Voiced vs. Voiceless vibrations

• What sound does a bee make? Voiced
• What sound does a snake make Voiceless

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Voiceless vs. Voiced sounds

• Voiceless No vocal cord vibration
• Voice Vocal cord vibration

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Final Consonant Sounds and Spellings

• Final consonant sounds are either voiceless (no
  vocal cord vibration) or voiced (vocal cord
  vibration).

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Which words are voiced? Which words are voiceless?

• Focus on the final consonant sound- s
• Cups, plays, pens, speaks, rose, bags, looks,
  reads, lives, cars, gets, puts, tents, plants,
  sees, hears, looks, goes, stops, rice, learns,
  rise, place, plays

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Review the Other Consonants

• Which ones are voiced?
• Which ones are voiceless?

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More practice!

• Pick 6 words from the following slide.
• Write them down on a piece of paper.
• Turn to your partner and you are going to read
  one word from the list.
• Your partner is going to guess if it is voiced or
  voiceless. (Focus is on the 1st consonant sound.)
• Read all the words.
• Switch roles.

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Words

• Ben, do, gone, van, gin, zoo, pen, to, can, fan,
  chin, Sue

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Choose a word and make a sentence

• diversion, decision, pleasure, division
• Watching television is my favorite_______.
• The river marks the _________between the two
  cities.
• Are you here for business or ________?
• Mary is very wishy-washy and cant make a
  ________.

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Choose a word and make a sentence

• Exposure, explosion, confusion
• When she lit the gas range there was a huge
  ________.
• Too much _______to the sun can cause sunburn.
• There was some _______ because the instructions
  were not clear.

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How do you address women in the US?

• Miss- for unmarried women
• Ms.- for married or unmarried women
• Missus (Mrs.)- for married women

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Communicative Practice Evacuate!

• Preview Pronunciation
• Rank items individually
• Achieve consensus

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One minute note

• What did you learn today?
• What are you still confused about? (Do not
  understand)
• What will you like to learn more about?