Additional Sample Lessons
Example 1
Foundation Word: magnificent
Individual Letters: a, c, i, m, n, s, t, y (letters may be combined to form consonant blends and digraphs -- e.g., sm, st)
Letter Patterns: ag, ent, if(f), im, ine
| Words | Semantic and Other Clues |
|---|---|
| 1. tag | |
| 2. sag | |
| 3. cent | one penny |
| 4. tent | a cloth shelter used when camping |
| 5. tents | |
| 6. mine | something that belongs to me |
| 7. nine | |
| 8. miff | to upset or offend |
| 9. stiff | |
| 10. sniff | to smell something |
| 11. agent | |
| 12. imagine | to dream or make pictures in your head |
| 13. magnify | to enlarge |
| 14. magazine | a type of reading material that comes to your home weekly or monthly |
| 15. magnificent | |
| Transfer Words | |
| T-1. jiffy | a short time; see boxes 8 and 9 for help |
| T-2. sniffles | to sniff repeatedly, a small cold; see box 10 for help |
| T-3. agency | the office of an agent; see box 11 for help |
| T-4. centennial | a hundredth anniversary |
| T-5. imagination | the ability to imagine; see box 12 for help |
| T-6. magnification | the process of magnifying or enlarging; see box 13 for help |
Example 2
Foundation Word: helicopter
Individual Letters: c, h, i, r, s, t (letters may be combined to form consonant blends an digraphs; they may also be added to patterns to create other patterns -- e.g., alt)
Letter Pattners: al (all), el (ell), er, op (opp)
| Words | Semantic and Other Clues |
|---|---|
| 1. hop | how rabbits move |
| 2. stop | another word for halt, you find it on red street signs |
| 3. chop | |
| 4. shell | a turtle lives inside one |
| 5. teller | the person who waits on you at a bank |
| 6. shelter | |
| 7. hope | |
| 8. scope | an instrument you look into, as in micro... |
| 9. salt | |
| 10. shop | |
| 11. topic | |
| 12. topical | |
| 13. tropical | referring to a region of the earth that normally is hot and humid |
| 14. shopper | guide students to understand that the word is spelled with a double p and not as shoper |
| 15. helicopter | |
| Transfer Words | |
| T-1. telescope | an instrument for viewing distant objects; see box 8 for help |
| T-2. landscape | a view of natural scenery; see box 8 for help |
| T-3. opals | gems with delicate colors |
| T-4. shallow | not deep; see box 4 for help |
| T-5. hopeless | without hope; see box 7 for help |
| T-6. pepper | a spice that often accompanies the word in box 9 |
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