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Support Materials for Students with Special Education Needs
English K–6
R
eading
IMPLEMENTATION
Introduction of letter–sound relationships
Letter–sound relationship
When
Possible order and
considerations
Lower case letter–sounds, and
upper case letter–sounds for those
capitals that look the same (or similar)
as the corresponding lower case letter
but are larger in size
After students have had exposure
to phonemic awareness activities
a m t sS i f d r oO g l h uU cC b n
kK vV e wW j pP yY xX q zZ
Teachers may choose to introduce
digraphs with letters representing
the same sound, eg
ph (f), wh (w),
kn (n), qu (q)
Letter names
Teachers may choose to introduce
letter names and letter–sounds for
a particular letter at the same time
Note:
Students are likely
to come to school having
acquired more letter names
than letter–sounds (Rose
2006)
The remaining upper case
letter–sounds
After students have demonstrated
fluency with the lower case and
upper case letter–sounds above
T L M F D I N A R H G B J E Q
Letter combinations including:
• consonant digraphs
• vowel digraphs
Each new digraph is introduced
when the student can read the
previous digraph in a word
with fluency
Introduce letter combinations
that appear frequently in texts
that students are reading
th, er, ing, sh, wh*, qu*, ol, oa,
ar, ea, oo, ee, ai, ch, or, ay, igh,
ou, ir, ur, kn*, oi, oy, ph*, wr,
au, aw
* Refer to lower case
letter–sounds above
Rimes
Note:
Nearly 500 words can be
derived from the following rimes.
The examples below are listed
alphabetically.
__ack, __ain, __ake, __ale, __all,
__ame, __an, __ank, __ap, __ash,
__at, __ate, __aw, __ay, __eat, __ell,
__est, __ice, __ick, __ide, __igh,
__ight, __ill, __in, __ine, __ing,
__ink, __ip, __ir, __ock, __oke, __op,
__or, __ore, __uck, __ug, __ump,
__unk
Some letter–sound combinations
may be more consistent when taught
as part of a rime rather than a
digraph, for example
ea
taken alone
represents a number of sounds in
different words, however, it is very
regular in the rimes (for example
__
eap
, __
eal
, __
eat
) except __
ead
(
bread
and
bead
) and __
eaf (sheaf
and
deaf
).
Introduce according to those
rimes appearing regularly in texts
that students are reading