Explicit Phonics Lesson
Introduction to R-controlled vowels: or
Day 1
Objective: Sound and blend words using the or spelling as r-controlled.
Review
You know that there are two kinds of
letters: consonants and vowels. You also know that every word or syllable must
have a vowel. What are the names of the letters that we call vowels? a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y What are the short sounds of these vowels? Ask for
them one at a time reviewing the key words and hand signals as well as the
short sounds.
Today we are going to learn about a
letter that is “bossy” and makes the vowels change their sounds. You might want to use the Bossy R illustration from Project
Read materials. The name of that bossy letter is R. R
is not always bossy. If it comes in front of a vowel, it doesn’t get upset at
all. It leaves the vowel that comes after it alone. But if R has to follow
after a vowel, it gets upset and gets bossy. The vowel we are going to work
with today is O, but R can boss the other vowels as well. We’ll study the other
vowels in lessons later on.
When R follows O in a word, the R controls the O and makes the or
spelling say /ôr/ as in the word fork.
Some other words with the /ôr/ sound are: or,
port, corn, and born. Write the words on the board or use flash
cards with the words. The or should
be written in red to establish the spelling
pattern that the students are to look for.
What do
we call R when it follows a vowel? Bossy
What
does the R make the O say when R comes after it? /ôr/ as in for
Does R
get bossy when it has to follow other vowels? yes
When
does R become a bossy letter? When
it has to follow a vowel in a word.
What is
the sound of or? /ôr/
PA (oral)
Listen to
these words and see if you can hear the /ôr/ sound or not. If you hear the /ôr/sound
in the word, I want you to give me a thumbs up. If you don’t hear /ôr/ in the
word, give me a thumbs down. So if I say horse,
/h/ /ôr/ /s/, you would give me a thumbs up because the /ôr/ sound is in the
word horse. If I say coat, /k/ /ō/ /t/, you would give me a
thumbs down because you do not hear /ôr/ in the word coat.
torn short fort foot story stop
core corn court sport porch patch
Decoding
Use the decoding procedure as in
previous lessons. Take time to talk
about the meanings of any words that might be unknown.
north torn thorn horn
short fork cork fort
storm port born pork
Some clues might
be:
1. a very light wood used on bulletin boards cork
2. antonym for tall short
3. a sharp point
on the stem of a rose thorn
4. a direction on
a compass north
5. Your birthday
is the day you were ___. born
6. meat that comes
from a pig pork
7. bad weather storm
8. synonym for
ripped torn
9. a musical
instrument horn
10. a utensil used
to eat with fork
11. the place
where ships come to shore port
When there is only one word left, have
the buddies read the last word. Each buddy then uses the word in a sentence.
Decodable Text
Practice reading words in text using
the decoding practice page.
Day 2
Review
What is
the short sound of the letter o? /ŏ/
Yesterday
we studied a letter that bosses the vowels around. What is that letter? R
The
letter R is not always bossy. When is it not bossy? When it comes before the vowel.
When is
it bossy? When it has to follow
the vowel.
When R
comes after O, what sound do they make?
/ôr/
PA (oral)
I am going to
say some words with the /ôr/ sound. I want you to tell me if the sound is at
the beginning or in the middle of the word. If I say order, you would tell me the /ôr/ is at the beginning of the word.
If I say porch, you would tell me the /ôr/ is in the middle of the word.
Be sure your Buddy agrees with you before you raise your hand to give me your
answer. (Segment words if needed.) Where is the /ôr/
sound in the word order? At
the beginning.
orchid acorn story orbit orchestra resort
morning organ sport torn ornate form
Decoding
Use the same procedure that was used
on Day 1.
form sport stork torch
scorch sort Mort popcorn
morn worn scorn dorm
1. Short for morning morn
2. Short for Mortimer Mort
3. To almost burn something scorch
4. A treat to eat at a movie popcorn
5. Synonym for shape form
6. Used to light the way torch
7. A large building where students live dorm
(Short for dormitory)
8. I have ____ those shoes before. worn
9. A bird with long legs and a long beak stork
10. A feeling of
hate for something scorn
11. Baseball is a _____. sport
Have
the students read the last word to their partner. Then each makes up a sentence
using the word. Have them go for 7-Up sentences (7 or more words in the
sentence.)
Decodable Text
Use or phrases to practice reading. The first time through have them
follow as you read. The second time have them chorally read with you. Then the
Buddies can take turns reading to each other.
Day 3
Review
What
letter is bossy if it can’t go in front of the vowel in a word? R
What
sound does the spelling pattern or
make? /ôr/
Does R
change the vowel sound when it is in front of the vowel? No
Can R
change the sound of other vowels?
Yes
What is
the spelling pattern that makes the
/ôr/ sound? or
Encoding: Dictation
Use the dictation
procedure. Be sure to make them ask, “Which spelling?”
1. /ŏ / o /ŋ/ ng /th/ th /ôr/ or /ŋk/ nk
2. born horn
torn
3. port sport
short
4. popcorn passport
The bag of popcorn is torn.
Decodable Text:
Practice reading the or phrases as it was done on Day 2.
Day 4
Review: Have the class decode 6 to 18 /k/ words on the board or on flashcards.
Word
Building
or Word Chaining
Use as much as you feel is
appropriate.
or born fort
for corn sort
port horn short
sport thorn port
sort torn porch
sort worn pork
fort sworn fork
forth cork
north stork
Decodable Text
Use the or sentences to practice reading words in context. Follow the
format of the phrase reading.
Day 5
Review
What is
the letter that is sometimes bossy?
R
The
letter R is not always bossy. When is it not bossy? When it comes before the vowel.
When is
it bossy? When it has to
follow the vowel.
When R
comes after O, what sound do the two letters make? /ôr/
Encoding/Dictation
1. /ôr/ or / ĭ/ ĭ /k/ ck /ŋ/ ng /ŏ / o
2. torn storm form
3. cork fork stork
4. foghorn duststorm
He has torn the form.
Decodable Text: Use
or sentences to practice reading with
a buddy.
Decoding
Practice
corn born fork fort short
sort storm pork stork form
|
with
a fork
a
bad storm
the big stork
into the port
1.
We
had pork chops.
2.
The
storm was bad.
3.
Fill in this form.
4.
We like
to play on the porch.
5.
Sort the forks for me.
6.
The
corn stalk is short.
or Phrases
1.
tall
and short 11. ship in port
2. on the porch 12. north of a fort
3. in the fort 13. back and forth
4.
torn
in back 14. a Ford truck
5. sort of short 15. worn and torn
6. a bad sport 16. a good sport
7. the short stork 17. play the horn
8. pork skins 18. report on storks
9. from the dorm 19. sort the corn
10. the short form 20. born to run
or Sentences
1.
Mort
plays the horn.
2.
They
had popcorn in the bag.
3.
The
stork sat on the porch.
4.
Do
not be a bad sport.
5.
That
stem has six thorns.
6.
Dora
is sort of short.
7.
The
grass was wet from the storm.
8.
He has torn his pants on a thorn.
9. Pop the cork off the top.
10. I saw
the horse snort.
11. The rat had popcorn and acorns.
12. I was born in York.
13. The story was set at a fort.
14. Go north at the fork in the path.
15. Dad had the pork rib dish.
16. Mort is good at ball sports.
17. We ran from the storm to the dorm.
18. He will fill in the
passport form.
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