Phonics Lesson Silent/Super Hero e Words Ending in _ge Lesson 61 & Silent/Super e Exceptions Lesson 62: Nov 17-20 (Reading Practice Book)

Phonics Lessons: Super (Silent) E Continued 

**we have learned two phonics lessons this week so we have two pages in our book this week to focus on** 

Note: please leave the clip on the previous completed pages and focus on the last pages in the book. Mrs. Herbert will move the clip as pages are completed. Thanks!

Lesson 61: _ge 

We have learned that it is important to notice when there is an e at the end of the word because it will tell us to say the long vowel sound or the vowel's name. Remember that this e does not make a sound. It is a silent e.

We have already learned that g spells /g/. The letter g can also spell /j/ when it is followed by a silent e, like in the word cage.

In this week's text called, Pete's Pet Snake, students are looking for words that have the silent e to make the g say /j/. They are looking to highlight the whole word that has that spelling pattern. Be careful for spelling patterns that are included in the story that include those letters that aren't part of this spelling pattern. Students are also looking to illustrate the story to demonstrate their understanding of the text.  

Lesson 62: Exceptions to Silent/Super Hero e

We have been learning about words with the silent e pattern. 

Silent e at the end of a word makes the first vowel make a long sound or say its name, like in the words bake, like and note. 

When the letter c is followed by a silent e, it spells /s/ like in the words race or nice.

When the letter g is followed by a silent e, it spells /j/ like in the words cage or huge.

There are two exceptions to the silent e pattern in words, or two times the rule gets broken. 

The first exception to the silent e pattern is ve. Some words that end with the ve have vowels that make the short sound, not the long sound, such as the words, give, live and have. This happens because in English, words are not allowed to end with the letter v. So we add the silent e but the silent e doesn't change the vowel sound. 

The next exception to the silent e pattern is called the scribal o. In some silent e words, there is an o that sounds like a short u, such as the words some, love, done, none and come. We are going to consider these words as heart words for the sake of Grade 1/2. 

In this week's text called, June's Bike Shop, students are looking for words that have the silent e that do not follow the regular rules (ve or the scibal o). They are looking to highlight the whole word that has these exceptions. Be careful for spelling patterns that are included in the story that include those letters that aren't part of this spelling pattern. Students are also looking to illustrate the story to demonstrate their understanding of the text.  

Heart (Irregular) Words of the Week

Heart words are words that do not decode or follow the spelling rules that we have been learning. We have to know them by 'heart'. However, once we learn more spelling rules, they may be only temporary heart words and the rules will come along later! In the meantime, we have been focusing on reviewing and learning the words below with focused in class practice. These will eventually (if not already) be on spelling word lists or word rings. 

Review words:

• could
• would
• should
• who
• one
• once

We are just focusing on reviewing words this week and have started an activity called Progress Checks/Monitoring to see how students are doing applying their skills of the concepts learned to date in Grade 1/2. From these, this helps us review lessons that haven't quite stuck and we can circle back to help.  

Fluency Grids
With each lesson, there is a fluency grid with the lesson focus that is intended to help students recognize the phonics rule and assist in reading it with accuracy and automaticity. At home, challenge your young reader to read the word (aim is to decode/read each word within 3 seconds) and then recall it each time they see it within the grid of mixed up, repeated words. A couple minutes of practice is all they need. This acts as a warm up before reading the text that also applies the same skill while building on all the previous skills as well. Each week we are building on the previous week to become more fluent readers so we can focus on what the text is sharing rather than spending all the time decoding the words.

Homework Reminders 

Students have been working on the story in their Reading Practice book that will come home each weekend. At school, they work with a partner to complete their fluency grid, read with someone their story and highlight the focus words. Following, they are illustrating a picture for the text to show their understanding. At home, students are to finish the above tasks and read to an expert the week's lesson(s). After completing, parents are to initial at the indicated spot at the top. This week, we are have completed one lesson so there will be one story to complete in their white Reading Practice booklet. Please see the information letter in the front of the book for more, detailed information about this weekend practice book coming home. Please return on Monday (or Tuesday if there is a no school day on Monday). 

Happy reading!