Helps students learn the
building blocks of the English
language, progressing from
basic to more complex
across the curriculum:
· Phoneme awareness
· Syllable awareness
· Morpheme awareness
· Sound-spelling
correspondence
· Syllable types
· Inflectional endings
· Prefixes and suffixes
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In Step 1, students recognize that words are composed of
phonemes and syllables.
Throughout Unit 14, students learn that the letter r following
a vowel in a syllable creates an r-controlled vowel sound. They
use tiles to segment the sounds in the r-controlled syllable.
/ p /
/ êr /
/ k /
/ ôr /
Identify the sounds in the first syllable in:
artist
perfect
corner
/ t /
/ âr /
Vowel Chart
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© 2009 by Sopris West Educational Services. All rights reserved.
Based on Moats, L.C. (2003), LETRS: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, Module 2, (p. 98). Longmont, CO: Sopris West Educational Services. Adapted with permission of the author.
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