Reintroduce an Irregular Word

Some words are tricky. Can your scholars quickly recognize irregularly spelled words? Write the word was on the board (or any irregular word you'd like to practice), touching each letter as scholars segment the phonemes. Explain that the letters make different sounds in this word than those scholars are used to sounding out, then challenge them to a fast-thinking word recognition game. Write several familiar regularly spelled words on the board along with your focus word a couple of times. Point to words one at a time; the class pronounces only the irregular word, staying silent for all others.

Concepts

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letter-sound correspondence, phonemes, phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, emergent reading, beginning reading, word recognition, line segments

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Additional Tags

letter sounds, phoneme, word recognition, segment, sight word, irregular word, trick word, english language arts

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Resource Details

Grade

K - 1st

Subjects

English Language Arts

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Resource Type

Lesson Plans

Audience

For Teacher Use

Duration

30 mins

Instructional Strategy

Choral Response

Year

2007

Usage Permissions

Creative Commons

BY-SA: 3.0