Vowel patterns will help your child read

Vowel patterns are a tool for your reader:

1) Hear the patterns - repeat them aloud.

2) See the patterns by helping your child write the word families, or circle them on a page, or in used books that it is OK to write in.

Teach short vowel word families first.

The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y. Each vowel can have several sounds. When the vowels are called short, they have these sounds:

Aa ban, can, Dan, fan, Jan, man, pan, ran, tan

Ee Ben, den, hen, men, pen, ten, yen, zen

Ii bin, kin, din, fin, pin, sin, skin, tin, win

Oo cot, dot, hot, jot, lot, not, pot, rot, tot

Uu but, cut, gut, hut, mutt, nut, rut

Yy as the short i sound, as in myth, system, rhythm 

Notice only the first letters change in a rhyming family, such as: ban, can, fan, span, than.

The part of the word that remains the same, is called the rime; an is the rime in the ban, can family. Show your child how to change only the first letter to make a new word in the same rhyming family.  (You mentally run down the ABCs to see which letters to suggest to your child. 

Some letters will create real words. For _and use b, h, l, s, and br, gr, st, str.

__and       __ant        __ank       __am         __amp        __ap        __ast

 
band        pant          bank          ham            camp          cap           fast

land         can't          sank          slam           damp          tap            past

The brain is a fantastic instrument. Unbeknownst to your child, his eyes peek ahead to see what letters or words are coming next.  This alerts his brain to get ready to pop into place the bits he has been learning. The brain actually anticipates what is coming next and begins retrieving it from long-term memory storage. This is why it is so important to be good at the bits and pieces of reading.

Your eyes do the same thing for you as you read; this is the eyes saccades system.

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