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I tried being Hulk, trying to “smash” the words into make the right sounds. I tried having her go around with Detective Dog and find words in eggs to decode. I tried making a hand puppet in the shape of an E who came to the rescue as I tried valiantly to spell “cane” “C-A-N”. So I moved forward to Lesson 14 (The First Job of Silent E). Finally, I really thought she had it, but also it was obvious that she was definitely not going to stand for yet another session spent on Lesson 12. I tried to analyze the problem: Perhaps she rebelled at the multiple steps of locating the vowels, figuring out that there was one consonant between, trying the short and long vowel sounds out to figure out which one worked in that particular case, and she just figured it was easier to ignore all that? The longer we worked with it, the more I became convinced that she was confused about what sound is short and what sound is long, so we spent several days identifying and producing those sounds. She adores that story and reads it over and over, but I suspect that she simply memorized the two syllable words. I tried going on to Lesson 13 (Read “Broken Robot”), thinking that seeing the words in a story might help. I followed all the directions, slowed things way down to spend extra days on the new concept (that has worked well in the past when she didn’t grasp a new concept quickly), but she struggled even more, eventually just basically guessing at words she had previously sounded out and nailed. She’d seemed fine with Part 1 of the rule and had produced the long vowel sounds without a hitch, but when confronted with a “sometimes” rule, she seemed to be unable to do those anymore at all. I am so impressed with this program! My granddaughter has been learning beautifully–right up until a few weeks ago when we reach Lesson 12 in Level 2 (Syllable Division Rule for One Consonant Tile, Part 2) where you introduce the concept that *sometimes* a single consonant between two vowels actually goes with the first syllable, forming a closed syllable. My granddaughter (5 years, 10 months) and I are really enjoying the All About Reading program together.

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Activities to Teach Long Vowel SoundsĪre you interested in seeing how we teach the four long vowel patterns in All About Reading and All About Spelling? Here is a sampling for you to download and enjoy! Instead, teach these basic patterns to students incrementally, one at a time. I would not recommend overwhelming a beginning student by teaching these spellings all at once. But I would only recommend using the chart for reference, or with an older student who has already mastered most of these phonograms.

Seeing these spellings all gathered in one place is enlightening for those of us who are already proficient readers and spellers. The chart below illustrates the most common ways to spell the long vowel sounds. So there you go-the four basic patterns for spelling long vowel sounds! Let’s Dive in a Little Deeper In these words, I or O are long before two consonants: k ind, g old, ch ild. In the word stroll, as in The emu went for a stroll, the letter O comes before two consonants and says its long vowel sound. I or O can be long when they come before two consonants.