Four "Within Word Pattern" Resources

1.    Reading A to Z

a.    Decodable Books and Phonics Lessons

b.    Reading A to Z is a great resource for finding leveled text and varied lessons for guided reading or for teaching specific reading or phonics lessons.  This specific link is a page that contains several printable books that practice the long vowel sounds that students in the Within Word Pattern Stage need practice with. 

2.    CVVC Document

a.    Teaching CVVC Pattern

b.    This resource explains the CVVC (consonant vowel vowel consonat) pattern that students in the Within Word Pattern Stage will encounter while they learn more about long vowel sounds.  This document is found on a Google Documents account, but contains activities to do with students in this group as well as high frequency words to practice using.

3.    Teacher Tube- R influenced A in accented syllables

a.    http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=85530
 

b.    This video is a demonstrated sort of familiar words that the instructor is using as examples for R controlled syllables and long A sounds in the first and second syllables.  I think that teachers could use this video as a demo as to how to teach students these important phonics features, and recreate a whole class lesson or game in which students in the Within Word Pattern Stage can strengthen their understanding of these reading and spelling rules. 

4.    Word Sort- Long and Short Vowels

a.    Word Sort for Long-a Patterns, Compared to the Short Vowel Pattern

b.    This link sends you directly to a webpage that is a printable page that can be cut out and used as a word sort.  This word sort focuses on differentiating between long and short vowel sounds within a word.  Students could use this sort to practice their understanding of reading and spelling words with varying vowel sounds.