1. Syllab les an d A ff ixes Spe lle rs
Sort Plurals and Other Inflected Endings
1 Review of vowel patterns in 1-syllable words
2 Adding –ing to words with VC and VCC patterns
3 Adding –ing to words with VCe and VVC patterns
4 Inflected Endings: review of double, E-drop, and nothing
5 Adding –ed to words with double, E-drop and no change
assessment Spell Check 1: assessment for inflected endings
6 Unusual past tense words
7 Plural Endings: adding –es
8 Unusual Plurals
9 Final Y
10 Y Plurals
11 Inflected endings added to words that end in Y
assessment Forming Plurals of Words Ending in Y
• Bonkers! (review of vowel patterns in one-syllable words)
• Freddy the Frog (adding the –ing ending)
activities • Double Scoop (adding -ed and –ing endings)
• Time Machine (unusual past tense words)
• Fox and Geese (plural endings)
Sort Compound Words
12 Compound Words
13 High-Frequency Compound Words
activities • Seashells Everywhere (compound words)
2. Sort Syllable Juncture
14 Syllable juncture in VCV and VCCV patterns
15 More syllable juncture in VCV and VCCV patterns
16 Syllable juncture in VCV and VVCV patterns
17 Syllable juncture in VCCCV and VV patterns
18 Open and closed syllables and inflected endings
assessment Spell Check 2 Assessment for Syllable Juncture Patterns
• Smack Down! (VCV and VCCV patterns)
activities
• Visit the Planets (open and closed syllables: V/CV or VC/V)
Sort Vowel Patterns in Accented Syllables
19 Long A patterns in accented syllables
20 Long I patterns in accented syllables
21 Long O patterns in accented syllables
22 Long U patterns in accented syllables
23 Long E patterns in accented syllables
assessment Spell Check 3 Assessment for Long Vowel Patterns
24 Ambiguous vowels OY/OI and OU/OW
25 More ambiguous vowels AU/AW/AL
26 R-influenced A in accented syllables
27 R-influenced O in accented syllables
28 Words with the W or /W/ sound before the vowel
29 SCHWA+R spelled ER, IR, and UR in first syllables
30 SCHWA+R and R-influenced E (ER/EAR/ERE)
assessment Spell Check 4 Assessment for R-Influenced and Ambiguous
Vowels
• Race for Chocolate (Long A patterns in accented syllables)
• Flip It! (Long I and Long O patterns in accented syllables)
activities
• Freedom! (All long vowels in accented syllables)
• Oink (-oy/-oi and –ou/-ow)
• R-Harvest (R-influenced A and O)
• Quarrel (words with the /w/ sound before the vowel)
3. Sort Unaccented Syllables
31 Unaccented final syllable (-LE)
32 Unaccented final syllable (LE/EL/IL/AL)
33 Final unaccented syllable (ER/AR/OR)
34 Agents and comparatives
35 More final R spellings
36 Final EN, ON, IN and AIN
37 Unaccented initial syllables (A-, DE-, BE)
assessment Spell Check 5 Assessment for Unaccented Syllables
• Apples
Apples and Bushels (-le and –el endings)
Bushels
• Take-
Dinosaur Take-a-Card (-le, -el, -al, -il endings)
activities
• Take 4! (agents and comparatives)
• Feed the Dragon (-en, -on, -ain, -in endings)
Sort Exploring Consonants
38 Hard and soft C and G
39 S and soft C and G in the final syllable
30 More words with G
41 Sound of K spelled CK, IC, and X
42 Spellings with QU
43 Words with silent consonants
44 GH and PH
assessment Spell Check Assessment for Consonants
• Ghosts in the Cemetery (hard and soft c and g)
activities • In a Pickle (sounds of /k/)
• Capture the Castle (words with silent consonants)
4. Sort Affixes
45 Prefixes (RE- and UN-)
46 Prefixes (DIS-, MIS-, and PRE-)
47 Prefixes (EX-, NON-, IN-, and FORE-)
48 Prefixes (UNI-, BI-, TRI-, and other numbers)
49 Suffixes (-Y, -LY, and –LLY)
50 Comparatives (-ER and –EST)
51 Suffixes (-NESS, -FUL, and –LESS)
assessment Spell Check 7 Assessment for Affixes
• Prefix Pirates (Prefixes: re-, un-, dis-, mis-, pre-)
activities • Depletion (prefixes)
• Quickest (suffixes: -ly, -est, -ful, -er, -less)
Sort Miscellaneous Sorts
52 Homophones
53 Homographs
54 I before E except after C
55 Syllable sort
activities • Homophone Hotel (homophones)
• Homograph Pancakes (homographs)