Unit 4

Bonus Letter Rule

Focus

These are the following skills and concepts students will be focusing on:

- Bonus letter rule: ff, ll, ss and zz
- Glued sound all

Letter-Keyword-Sounds Cards

In this unit students will learn about two different rules:

At the end of a one-syllable word if the word has one vowel that ends with an f, l, s, or z we double these consonants.
We also have the new letter-keyword-sound card all. We learn that when we have the letter a followed by l that it does NOT have the expected short vowel sound. We call this a welded sound.

Helpful Videos

Floss Rule and Glued sound all

Practice Words at Home & How to Mark Words

Practice Words:

shell
cuff
fuss
miss
kiss
off
fill
puff

wall
fall
hall
call
ball
tall
mall
toss
hill
fell

Trick Words

Remember many of these words do NOT follow spelling rules and so cannot follow our spelling words procedure. The trick words are:

you
your
I
they
was
one
said

Sentences

Remember to continue to practice the spelling word procedure when spelling these words. Students should first complete the procedure and then add symbols.

In this unit we introduce two concepts. The first concept is learning the procedure for spelling sentences and the use of symbols.

- Students when writing sentences circle the sight word and put a star above bonus letters (ff,ll and ss) and box then put a star above words that use all.

Practice Sentences:

Did you get the red shell?
Bess had a big kiss for her dad.
Tim will fill your dish with fish.
Dad had one ball for Jack.
You will fall!
The duck will quack at Bill.
They had bad luck on the quiz.
The bug fell in the web.

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