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1 Copyright Reading Manipulatives, for TEACHERS Variant Vowels p. 11725 East Mountain View RoadPhoenix, AZ VOWELSREADING MANIPULATIVES PRODUCT: Variant VowelsTEACHING STRATEGIES: Blending bases containing variant vowelsOnce students are adept at decoding words containing short and long vowels, the English vowelphonemes with variant pronunciations and spellings can be introduced. Variant vowel phonemes andspellings with a high frequency of occurrence are listed on the following of these variant vowels are phonemes, and several have multiple spellings. These spellings areactually what students need to recognize, and that is why word families are an excellent strategy.

2 It doesnot matter that ooas in zoosounds the same as one of the long u spellings (fruit) or the ewspelling(new). Do not dwell on phonetic information that is irrelevant and may confuse students. Teach conceptsin the most simplified manner 1 Select variant vowel spellings and instructional sequenceThe Reading Manipulatives variant vowel product cover all of these variant vowel phonemes andspellings with word families and then proceed to scrambled sentences. Step 2 Teach common variant vowels with word familiesWord families are the easiest way to drill repetitive variant vowel spellings. Before introducing variantvowels, make sure that students are adept at decoding words containing short and long vowels.

3 Sincethese are more common, they are more useful in the decoding process. When variant vowel usages arelimited (such as the ouin could), cover them in sight 3 Provide decoding practice with scrambled sentencesAgain, students must first be introduced to short/long vowel phonemes and spelling patterns since themajority of the words in the scrambled sentences must be decoded using this phonetic information. Striveto include as many variant vowel spellings as possible. Underline variant vowels in all manipulatives tosignal their occurrence. This encourages students to think about and apply what they have learned aboutthese sounds and to high frequency variant vowelphonograms is families for 15 commonly used variant vowelsare included.

4 Students blend initial sounds to 42bases, reading the 283 words students are familiar with the word families,they are ready for the 12 sets of scrambled are the same format as the SLV sentences,except that they have words with variant vowelphonograms (underlined to alert students).VARIANT VOWELSD ownload PDF$9 Copyright Reading Manipulatives, for TEACHERS Variant Vowels p. 2 RESOURCE LIST: Common variant vowel phonemes and spellingsMAKING MATERIALS: Blending bases to initial off cover-weight sheets of paper ( x 11 inches) into 8 horizontal strips ( inches high). 4 vertical lines to divide the width of the page into 5 columns. Draw the lines at inchspacing.

5 The last column will be twice as wide and can be divided in half when more initial soundsare needed (see example below). the accompanying resource list for the word families. Any initial sounds forming words that aretoo difficult (sound or vocabulary) can be skipped or pulled as students read the word must be coded in some can be done with symbol codes (as on examples below). Eachpage can be on a different color, thereby limiting the number of unique codes cards. Cut apart and place pieces in zipper bags or other storage devices. Small rubberbands can be used to keep word families #1abaceackadebr again ame ankcr ash ayeam eatdr eeeen eezeessfr ibe ick illimgr intipize ogpr oke opost owtr uck ugush ustlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllawookownoopoilawnoinoodoundoolouchoom outoonowewowllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllknrhbrmbbrftclblnllnH66uuA DD VARIANT VOWELS TO SLV BLENDING SETSIf you made short/long vowel pattern blending sets from Blendingissue, add some variant vowel bases after they are taught with wordfamilies.

6 An example of SLV pattern set is on left and possible basesto add are on the right. Always underline variant vowel , students may think the first of two vowels is , they will memorize these FAMILIES smcbgrhdchthrllnH66uustfrrnfdscrllnH66uu thglssmyfdrllnH6H6uuuuwbllnallloomnoundH Hear6ewuR-Controlled (first three more common) as infur (spelled ur, ir, er,and [w]or) as infor (same sound for or, ore,and oar) as inair (spelled areand air) as inear (spelled earand eer)OO (two sounds, two spellings) as inzoo as intookAL / AU / AW (one sound, three spellings) insaw intaughtOU /OW (one sound, two spellings) as as innowOI / OY (one sound, two spellings) as as inboy^^^^^^^.

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9 3 RESOURCE LIST: Variant vowel word families