![]() ![]() A curriculum map lays out the scope and sequence of the phonics instruction. Usually, the words are spread out over the course of a few years, ranging from kindergarten to third grade.Īs a kindergarten teacher, I taught the following 17 CVC word families during the second half of the school year.įirst, if following a curriculum program, you will want to look over the curriculum mat. ![]() Now, please don’t feel like you will be responsible for teaching all of these phonograms in one year. The 37 most common phonograms found by Wylie and Durrell are: The following phonograms appear in almost 500 high frequency words taught in the primary grades. They refer to these spelling patterns as phonograms (word families). After conducting research, Wylie and Durrell found 37 most common English spelling patterns. If you do a search on teaching kids how to read, you will most likely come across Wylie & Durrell (1970). This will help build their confidence in spelling and reading abilities. Rather than learning words in isolation, they begin to notice that pattern of word chunks, which sets them up to read a collection of words. Thankfully, learning word families will greatly increase the number of words your kiddos will learn to read. If kids can recognize a word chunk (phonogram) within the unknown word, they are likely to build an understanding of word patterns and decode more words while reading. This is where word families come into play. Yes, it’s great to support the readers, but it’s even more important to help them build reading strategies to decode unknown words. Kids are often not confident when reading unknown words, and rely on familiarity or support to read. Johnston, “Word family pattern recognition is a key to understanding the complexities of the English language.”īased on my 17 years experience teaching kids how to read, I can say, with confidence, word families help kids build stronger reading fluency. What is a rime? A rime is the vowel and consonant(s) that follow.Īccording to the article, The Timing and Teaching of Word Families, written by Francine R. What is an onset? An onset is the initial sound of a word. Let’s break down onsets and rimes a little more. ![]() If you are wondering what CVC means, CVC stands for Consonant-Vowel-Consonant.ĬVC word families, also known as phonograms, are groups of words that share the same rime, but have different onsets. More specifically, I’m going to talk about CVC word families. Now, in relation to teaching kids how to read, let’s look at how I would define word families. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don’t recognize as being related.” “A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes plus its cognates, i.e. Today, I’m going to share with you what I know about word families, how I teach the cvc word families, and my favorite word family worksheets.īecause I tend to simply everything, and don’t want to undervalue this reading skill, I am going to start with the wikipedia definition. However, for the purpose of this post, I will give you all the information you need to understand, and get ready to teach, word families. I will list them at the end of this post for you to check out on your own time. If this is your first time visiting Little Learning Corner, you may not know I have written several other blog posts about strategies or resources to teach word families. ![]()
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