Consonant clusters are used with each vowel to extend the concept with blending and spelling challenges rather than as separate phonics units, a valuable economy in teaching essential correspondences. Phoneme awareness review. Little effort is made to teach or review phoneme awareness. Components of phonics lesson. Blending is sequential, even with 5-phoneme words, which places undue memory demands on young children.
Students read and spell the words gum and bump.
Later they spell other short u words from a spelling list and brainstorm rhymes for a word wall. Decodability of practice texts. Teaching long i signaled by silent e. System and pace in introducing correspondences. This lesson, found in Theme 5, page T148, is part of a series of CVCe lessons, taught at a moderate pace of one new correspondence per week. Phoneme awareness review.