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BARBARA MURRaY
Unit
2
b bb
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Grapheme Chart
letters
1 Count the syllables and sounds in the List Words.
Segment the words into graphemes.
2 Colour the graphemes that represent
b bb
3 Write any other letters that can represent
Write one word example for each.
List Words
syllables sounds
aboard
burying
absence
abscess
behaviour
changeable
desirable
aborigine
abdomen
abseiling
habitable
elaboration
celebratory
cybernetics
metabolic
broccoli
autobiography
flamboyant
abattoir
ambiguous
in the List Words.
b bb
on the Grapheme Chart.
words
syllables sounds
barometric
beverage
bilingual
inalienable
ambassadorial
buoyancy
indelibly
insubstantial
ambidexterity
bureaucracy
Find a Word Activity
Find a List Word that:
1 has a trigraph
2 has
s ss se ce x(ks) c
twice
3 has
b bb
as its 6th sound
4 has
b bb
as its 7th sound
5 can be a participle
6 was built from a base word ending with ate
7 has ir for
ar a
8 ends with al
9 ends with ic
10 has
e ea
twice
11 was built from the Greek root bios meaning life
12 names something people can consume
13 can mean – original inhabitant
section of a body
ostentatious
having an obscure or double meaning
14 has alien as its base word
Unit 2
Ideas Pages
Explore the Sounds
Warm Up Teaching Chart Activity
Teacher points to the first consonant sound box on the Teaching
Chart and says the sound it represents. Students point on their
own charts and repeat the sound. Continue through all the
consonant sound boxes from left to right, followed by all the
vowel sound boxes. Use Tracks 1 and 4 on the Sound Waves
Let's Sing the Sounds CD to make this more fun for students.
Identify the Sound
Ask students to determine how many times they hear b bb
in all the words in the sound boxes. Use the Sound Waves
Teaching Charts or Student Charts.
Brainstorming
Make charts headed: first (bicycle), second (obey), third
(cabbage), fourth (combination), fifth (tremble), sixth
(resemblance), Others (describe – 7th, inevitable – 8th).
Ask students to brainstorm words for each list. Highlight the
graphemes for b bb in the listed words. Display charts in the
classroom. Encourage students to add words to the lists during
the week.
Explore the List Words
Meaning and Pronunciation
Ask students to make a small 'chart' for a word from the list.
They should head their chart with their allocated word and copy
their word’s excerpt from the dictionary on to the chart. These
could be presented orally to the class at the beginning of the
week and then pinned on the wall for reference purposes during
the week.
Platypus Sentences
Students each write a Platypus Sentence on a slip of paper, for
the word they have explored on their dictionary chart.
For example:
• A group of friends went platypus down the cliff face.
• The artist’s platypus made very interesting reading.
Teacher numbers the Platypus Sentences and displays them
around the room. Students identify and record numbered
answers during the week. Correct and discuss as a group
on Friday.
List Word Activities
• c olour all digraphs red; trigraphs blue; quadgraphs green
in their list of words.
• r esearch List Words in a dictionary and identify affixes and
roots. Have students collate lists of affixes, roots and meanings
with example words, adding to their lists each week. Create
‘open book’ quizzes with this information from time to time.
• identify base words in List Words and build word families.
• identify all List Words that could be nouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs etc.
• m
ake crosswords and Word Searches with the List Words.
• c reate games such as Match Two, Match Three and Word
Families using blank games templates BLMs T2–15.
Use Word List BLMs WLXX–XX to help you create word building,
comparison, analogies, similes, derivation, spoonerism and
singular and plural activities.
Working with Words
Greek Root bios
Display and read through the information on Root Wall Card
BLM R1. Discuss how the Greek root influences the meanings of
the words.
Dictionary Activity
As a group, locate words starting with bio in the dictionary. List
the words on the board and discuss the meanings.
Play Team or Pairs Crossword
Students play in teams to build a crossword using words
built from the Greet root bios on BLM R1 and those listed on
the board. Teams take turns writing the words on the board,
intersecting them horizontally and vertically. Use BLM T17 if
students are working in pairs. See instructions on BLM GIX.
Adding to words ending in e
To practise adding to words ending in e ask students to work
in pairs to write change/ing/able, desire/ing/able, aborigine/al,
elaborate/ing/ly/ation, celebrate/ing/ory and trace/ing/able in Words
Strips on BLM WSS.
Refer to Helpful Hints 2a , 2b and 2c on BLM HH1 for adding
to words ending in e.
Word Families Card Activity
Distribute the cards on BLMs GM2 and GM3 among students
who then circulate to form word families with the words on the
cards. Discuss each group's words and how they have been
built from base words. Award a counter to each student in the
first correctly formed group. Collect cards and start again. Tally
counters at the end.
Ask student to write the List Words in columns according to:
• the number of phonemes in each word
• the number of letters in each word
• the ordinal position of the phoneme being studied.
Word Puzzle
Ask students to:
• write List Words in alphabetical order.
• draw icons to represent the phonemes in each word,
.
eg abattoir –
Tic Tac Toe
Using BLM GM1, students match word beginnings and endings
to form connecting rows of ellipse shapes.
Students play this game using b bb words, instead of noughts and
crosses. One student writes words with the grapheme b and the
other writes words with bb. See game instructions on BLM GIX.
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abscess
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abseiling
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elaboration
celebratory
cybernetics
metabolic
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syllables sounds
aboard
List Words
Write one word example for each.
3 Write any other letters that can represent
b bb
Count the syllables and sounds in the List Words.
Segment the words into graphemes.
b bb
2 Colour the graphemes that represent
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buoyancy
indelibly
insubstantial
ambidexterity
bureaucracy
s ss se ce x(ks) c
twice
b bb
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as its 6th sound
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burying
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twice
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abattoir
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metabolic
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elaboration
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barometric
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11 was built from the Greek root bios meaning life
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autobiography
broccoli
aborigine
13 can mean – original inhabitant
abdomen
section of a body
flamboyant
ostentatious
ambiguous
having an obscure or double meaning
inalienable
14 has alien as its base word
10 has
9 ends with ic
8 ends with al
7 has ir for
celebratory
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bureaucracy
absence
insubstantial
changeable
desirable
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aboard
as its 7th sound
indelibly
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cybernetics
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2 has
buoyancy
1 has a trigraph
Find a List Word that:
Find a Word Activity
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ambassadorial
inalienable
bilingual
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beverage
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barometric
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beverage
insubstantial
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Unit 2
Answers Pages