Letter Tiles
Letter Tiles Letter Tiles are a versatile, hands-on word building manipulative, ideal for introducing phonics concepts and giving children practice building every word imaginable. Like other manipulatives, Letter Tiles help children visualize concepts concretely and remember what they learn. In addition to regular alphabet letter tiles, teachers can now purchase multi-letter cluster tiles: important chunks of letters (ch, ing, qu, etc.) that children need to recognize as a unit when they read or spell. Alphabet Letter Tiles, uppercase and lowercase letters on 1 1/4" x 1" plastic tiles. Cluster Tiles, blends, digraphs, vowel pairs, rimes, and word endings on 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" and 1 1/4" x 2" plastic tiles. Onset and Rime Tiles, plastic tiles with common word beginnings (onsets) and endings (rimes) that children can use to build words. Letter Tile Resource Books Learning with Letter Tiles A Guide to Hands-On Phonics Appealing activities and games that get children actively involved in exploring letters and how they go together to make words. Rime Time Building Word Families with Letter Tiles 70 powerful word families are created with these charmingly illustrated activity pages and a set of 42 letter tiles. Time to Rhyme Building Words with Rimes That Rhyme An exploration of words that have the same ending sounds but are spelled in two or more different ways. For these and other language arts resources for teachers, consult the Primary Concepts catalog. Primary Concepts P.O. Box 10043 Berkeley, CA 94709 Cat. No. 2006 Design and Production: Hyru Gau ■ © 2002 Primary Concepts® P.O. Box 10043 Berkeley, CA 94709 www.primaryconcepts.com Catalog no. 7006 ■ All rights reserved. ■ Primary Concepts grants teachers permission to photocopy the reproducible pages from this eBook for classroom use only. Permission is limited to the teacher for whom the eBook was purchased. No other use of this product is allowed without prior written consent of the publisher. ■ ISBN 978-1-60184-176-6 VowelPowerpp_FM 1/24/02 12:45 PM Page 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Teaching Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vowel Power Activities Short Vowel CVC Patterns __a__ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 __e__ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 __i__ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 __o__ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 __u__ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 b__g, l__d, and r__b . . . . . . .12 __ou__ . . . . . . . . . . . . __oi__ . . . . . . . . . . . . __ow__ and __aw__ . __ay and __oy . . . . . . __aw, __ow, and __ew f__l, b__t, and l__d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 .28 .29 .30 .31 .32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 .34 .35 .36 .37 .38 .39 .40 .41 .42 .43 .44 .45 .46 .47 .48 .49 .50 Vowel Practice Long Vowel CVCe Patterns __a__e . . . . . . . __i__e . . . . . . . . __o__e . . . . . . . __u__e . . . . . . . __a__(e) . . . . . . __i__(e) . . . . . . . __o__(e) . . . . . . __u__(e) . . . . . . l__ne and m__le . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 .14 .15 .16 .17 .18 .19 .20 .21 Vowel Pair CVVC Patterns __ai__ . __ea__ __ee__ __oa__ __oo__ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 .23 .24 .25 .26 c__t . p__n . b__t . b__d . p__t . h__m r__d . h__t . b__n . t__n . c__p . l__n . m__n h__p . m__d m__t . n__t . g__t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Vowel Sounds Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Letter Tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 VowelPowerpp_FM 1/24/02 12:45 PM Page 4 TEACHING NOTES With Vowel Power, students learn about vowel sounds and vowel patterns as they build words with letter tiles. There are two types of word-building activities: one in which children make words by adding consonants before and after a vowel, and one in which children make words by inserting vowels between two consonants. __ a __ c __ t Through the activities, children practice letter sound correspondences as they blend sounds together to make words. LETTER TILES Each child will need a set of 37 letter tiles: 5 single-letter vowels (a, e, i, o, and u); 12 vowel pairs (ai, ea, ou, and so on); 16 consonants (all but q, v, x, y, and z) and 4 consonant digraphs (sh, th, ch, and wh). You can use plastic tiles available from the publisher or make your own using the blackline masters on pages 63 and 64. The letter tiles used for these activities are designed specifically for word building. The lettering on the tiles was carefully sized so that when words are built they look like the words children see in their reading. Each vowel pair and consonant digraph is printed on a single tile in order to encourage children to think of these letter clusters as a unit rather than as single letters. The tiles come in two colors: red letters for vowels and black letters for consonants. GETTING STARTED Copy the activity pages you intend to use, one for each child. You may want to make a transparency for the overhead projector as well, for class demonstration purposes. Also make copies of the Vowel Sounds Chart on page 62 for any children who need help remembering vowel sound correspondences. If they don’t know the sound for the ou letter tile, for example, they can look for ou on the chart and the picture will tell them the sound for ou. Hand out an activity page to each of the children and have them find the letter tiles indicated on the page. Then have them • put letter tiles on the line or lines and blend the sounds together, • decide whether the sounds form a real word, and • write any real words they build on the numbered lines. The picture at the top of the page is intended to help children get started. MAKING WORDS The list of possible words for each activity appears in the answer section of this book, pages 51-61. Not listed are words that are outside most children’s speaking and listening vocabulary. Even those that are listed include a few that may be unfamiliar to some children. Take the opportunity to help children expand their vocabularies by explaining what these words mean. Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 4 VowelPowerpp_FM 1/24/02 12:45 PM Page 5 While the pages are intended for children to complete on their own, teachers may instead wish to use the lists on the answer pages to dictate the words. This way teachers can help children to carefully and correctly enunciate each letter sound as they build the words. VOWEL PATTERNS Vowel Power introduces students to the three most common vowel patterns. • CVC Words In consonant-vowel-consonant words, the vowel sound is generally short. The word cat, for example, is a CVC word. Hundreds of words in the English language follow this pattern. • CVCe Words Here the vowel sound is generally long. The word ride, for example, follows this pattern. The common CVCe patterns are a-e, i-e, o-e, and u-e. Activities in which students add an e to the end of a CVC word (mad to made, for example) help children develop automatic recognition of this important pattern. • CVVC Words These words have a vowel pair in the middle. Because it is important for children to learn to recognize these vowel pairs as a unit, each vowel pair appears on a single tile. The goal is for children to associate a sound with each of these letter pairs. The vowel pair oa represents the long o sound, for example, and the vowel pair ou represents the sound /ou/ as in couch. Note that the vowel pairs ea and ee both represent the same sound (long e) and the vowel pair ow can represent two sounds (/ou/ and /ō/ ). The goal of these activities is for children to learn regular letter sound correspondences. The letter tiles in each exploration were carefully chosen to avoid confusing children with irregularly spelled words such as put or some. ACTIVITY SEQUENCE The activity pages are presented in an order that builds from short vowels to silent e pattern to vowel pairs and includes practice pages after each new vowel pattern is introduced. First, each short vowel sound is introduced, followed by practice with all the short vowel sounds. Next, each silent e pattern is introduced, followed by practice with both CVC and CVCe words. Then, each vowel pair is introduced, followed by practice with all the vowel pairs. Finally, all the vowel patterns are included in the final set of activity pages. INVOLVING PARENTS Vowel Power activity pages are a convenient at-home activity. After introducing the activities in the classroom, you may wish to set up a routine of sending a page a week home with students to do as homework. Parents could keep a supply of letter tiles to use for the activities. They can use plastic tiles or make their own from a copy of pages 63 and 64. EXTENDING THE ACTIVITIES Here are a few ways to extend the activities in the book. Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 5 VowelPowerpp_FM 1/24/02 12:45 PM Page 6 Word Hunt Once students have completed a page, send them on a word hunt to find more words for each spelling pattern. They might add names of people or places. For example, for the short a pattern on page 7, students could add the words fan and cat and names such as Sam and Chad. Letter Blends Challenge students to combine letter tiles to make words with blends. For example, on page 7, students could build the word damp with the final blend mp. Vowel Power Book The children can save their activity pages in a special folder, which they can eventually staple together to form a book. They especially enjoy flipping through their books to see all the words they have made. Silly Sentences Students can use the word lists they create, plus the results of their word hunts, to make silly sentences. For example, for the short a pattern they could create a sentence such as this: Sam the Cat is mad at the bad bat. Sound Alikes When students have completed their Vowel Power Books, ask them to find the activity pages in their books that feature the same vowel sounds but different spelling patterns: ow and ou; a-e, ai, and ay; ea and ee; o-e, oa, and ow; u-e, ew, and oo. OTHER RESOURCES These word-building activity books follow the same format as Vowel Power. iles bl B m d sk ptts Pr Rime Time: Building Word Families with Letter Tiles Time to Rhyme: Building Words with Rimes that Rhyme For these and other language arts resources for teachers, consult a Primary Concepts catalog. Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 6 VowelPowerpp07-30 1/24/02 12:55 PM Page 7 Name Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. 1 2 man t ba 3 4 5 __a__ b d m 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 n p t 13 14 15 16 17 Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 7 18 VowelPowerpp07-30 1/24/02 12:55 PM Page 27 Name Words I can build: l Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. Cross out any letters that don’t make words. d mout u h o 1 2 3 __ou__ c d l m s t ch sh th Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 27 4 5 VowelPowerpp31-50 1/24/02 1:02 PM Page 47 Name Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. Cross out any letters that don’t make words. 1 2 d ai mad m 3 m__d a i o u a-e i-e o-e ai oo Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 47 4 5 6 7 8 VowelPowerpp51-64 2/8/02 11:07 AM Page 51 ANSWERS Name Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. t man ba __a__ b d m n p Vowel Power © Primary Concepts t 7 Name 1 bad 2 ban 3 bat 4 dab 5 dam 6 mad 7 man 8 map 9 mat 10 nab 11 nap 12 pad 13 pan 14 pat 15 tab 16 tad 17 tan 18 tap Words I can build: __i__ f n p w sh th wh Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. t h i n ship Name pen in a n e t __e__ b m n p 1 bet 2 men 3 met 4 net 5 pen 6 pet 7 ten t 8 Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Name Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. 1 fin 2 fish 3 nip 4 pin 5 shin 6 ship 7 thin 8 whip 9 win 10 wish 11 with 9 t top po __o__ h m p t sh Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 51 10 1 hop 2 hot 3 mop 4 pot 5 shop 6 shot 7 top VowelPowerpp51-64 2/8/02 11:07 AM Page 56 ANSWERS Name Words I can build: __ou__ c d l m s t ch sh th 2 mouth 3 shout 4 loud 5 south Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. __ow__ __aw__ l h k Vowel Power © Primary Concepts boil 2 coil 3 coin 4 foil 5 join 6 soil 28 Name Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. 1 dawn 2 down 3 lawn 4 howl 5 hawk 6 shawl 7 shown __ay __oy b s n sh Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 1 a c oil __oi__ b c f j l n s Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Name d coin couch 27 Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. 1 d mout h ou Name on l Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. 29 Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 56 d t 30 j 1 bay 2 boy 3 day 4 jay 5 joy 6 say 7 soy 8 toy VowelPowerpp51-64 2/8/02 11:07 AM Page 61 ANSWERS Name Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. Cross out any letters that don’t make words. Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. Cross out any letters that don’t make words. 1 mad m 1 mat e a t mates 2 mid 2 met 3 mod 3 mate 4 mud 4 mute 5 made 5 meet 6 mode 6 meat 7 maid 7 moat 8 mood d ai mad m Name m__d a i o u a-e iX-e o-e ai oo 47 Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Name Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. Cross out any letters that don’t make words. n u t in a net n__t e o u o-e ea ew oiX Vowel Power © Primary Concepts Vowel Power © Primary Concepts m__t a e a-e u-e ee ea oa ou X 48 Name Words I can build: Use the letters to build words. Write the words you build. Cross out any letters that don’t make words. 1 net 1 get 2 not 2 got 3 nut 3 gut 4 note 4 gate 5 neat 5 goat 6 newt t the ga at a te go g __t e o u a-e iX-e oa 49 Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 61 50 VowelPowerpp51-64 2/8/02 11:07 AM Page 62 VOWEL SOUNDS CHART a a-e ai oi e i-e ea ow i o-e ee ew o u-e oa aw oo oy ou ay u Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 62 VowelPowerpp51-64 2/8/02 11:07 AM Page 63 LETTER TILES: CONSONANTS b k t b k t cd f g h j l mn p r s w sh th ch wh cd f g h j l mn p r s w sh th ch wh Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 63 VowelPowerpp51-64 2/8/02 11:07 AM Page 64 LETTER TILES: VOWELS Copy this page on red paper. ae i o u ai ea ee oa oo ou oi oy ay awow ew ae i o u ai ea ee oa oo ou oi oy ay awow ew Vowel Power © Primary Concepts 64 Letter Tiles Letter Tiles are a versatile, hands-on word building manipulative, ideal for introducing phonics concepts and giving children practice building every word imaginable. Like other manipulatives, Letter Tiles help children visualize concepts concretely and remember what they learn. In addition to regular alphabet letter tiles, teachers can now purchase multi-letter cluster tiles: important chunks of letters (ch, ing, qu, etc.) that children need to recognize as a unit when they read or spell. Alphabet Letter Tiles, uppercase and lowercase letters on 1 1/4" x 1" plastic tiles. Cluster Tiles, blends, digraphs, vowel pairs, rimes, and word endings on 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" and 1 1/4" x 2" plastic tiles. Onset and Rime Tiles, plastic tiles with common word beginnings (onsets) and endings (rimes) that children can use to build words. Letter Tile Resource Books Learning with Letter Tiles A Guide to Hands-On Phonics Appealing activities and games that get children actively involved in exploring letters and how they go together to make words. Rime Time Building Word Families with Letter Tiles 70 powerful word families are created with these charmingly illustrated activity pages and a set of 42 letter tiles. Time to Rhyme Building Words with Rimes That Rhyme An exploration of words that have the same ending sounds but are spelled in two or more different ways. For these and other language arts resources for teachers, consult the Primary Concepts catalog. Primary Concepts P.O. Box 10043 Berkeley, CA 94709 Cat. No. 2006
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