Do you teach vowel teams?
How To Teach Long O Vowel Teams? Phonics vowel teams can be tricky for students to grasp in reading and spelling.
This week we are introducing our first vowel teams OE and OA. I like to start my creating an anchor chart with my students. While we make our class chart, the students make their own chart to take home.
We follow the Orton Gillingham method during our phonics instruction.
Let's talk about the vowel team OE
How To Teach Long O Vowel Teams…
The OE like in “toe”.
We go over many words with the OE vowel team. I show the kiddos that this vowel team usually will be at the end of a word.
Some example words…
toe
Joe
toenail
doe
hoe
Let's talk about the vowel team OA...
The OA like in “boat”.
We go over many words with the OA vowel team. We talk about how usually the vowel team will be found in the middle and or sometimes at the beginning of words.
Some example words…
oak
oat
boat
soak
oatmeal
float
Vowel Team OE and OA
Check out this resource for how to teach long O vowel teams with OE and OA.
It also comes with 14 printables that correspond to the lesson.
By the end of the week, students will be able to read and write words with this vowel team
How to Teach Long Vowels?
With the “I Love Phonics” Series you will have a step by step lesson that helps you teach long vowels. Many units are up and ready to go. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions. Click here!
Phonics Rules for Elementary
When you teach phonics, do you follow a curriculum? If so, do you feel that students master the concepts or does it move too fast? Does the curriculum explicitly teach the phonics rules? Do you find yourself supplementing with your own materials?
Phonics rules are often not explicitly taught in popular curriculum series. They introduce a skill, give practice opportunities, assess, then move on! For students to become strong readers, they need to know the WHY! Once students can see the phonics rule in action, have them practice in multi-sensory learning activities…sand trays, play doh, using markers to rainbow write, build with pipe cleaners, etc. Also it is a great opportunity to use decodable texts in small groups, provide spelling dictation practice, and reinforce with chants or movements.
I like to use anchor charts as an introduction to a phonics concept. The students brainstorm the words together and often I will have students interact with the chart throughout the week. As we move through various concepts, I keep the anchor charts displayed on our room. The students refer to the old charts often during independent writing assignments. The best part…at the end of the year, I give away the charts as class prizes! The students love taking a piece of our learning home with them.
Do you need more help with phonics rules?
Phonics can be tricky. English language rules ARE tricky! When teaching young learners all of these skills, teachers can sometimes become overwhelmed and frustrated.
I have been teaching elementary for 17 years and it never fails…I will be in the middle of a lesson and I think to myself, “What is the rule for this phonics skill?” or “Did I just teach that rule correctly?”
Have you ever been there?
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