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Bound for Success Scope and Sequence Statements

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SPELLINGYear One Year Two Year Three Year Four Year FiveContractions(I’m, I’ll)Common long-vowelpatterns in single syllablewords• Long a (space, rain)• Long e (seem, clean)• Long o (drove, road)• Long u (cube, food, fruit)Exception to vce pattern –vepattern(give, love, have, dove)Short /e/ sound spelled ea(dead, head, bread)Diphthongsoi/oy (coin, boy)ou/ow (loud/cow)Final /k/ sound spelled ck,ke, k(chick, make, book)Inflectional endings (changefunction of word-number<strong>and</strong> tense)Plurals e <strong>and</strong> esEnsure students underst<strong>and</strong>concept of ‘one’ or ‘morethan one’ be<strong>for</strong>e embarkingon plurals.Past tense endingsExplore the concept of ‘time’as linear. Use timelines,calendars, etc to model <strong>and</strong>rein<strong>for</strong>ce this concept.Compound words(Indoors, breakfast, today)Discuss pronunciationdifferences of words whenused in a compound word egbreak + fast sounds likebreakfastContractions• (It’s, that’s, he’s)• (can’t, didn’t, wasn’t, isn’t)Common homophones(two/to/too; see/sea, of/off)Contractions• It’s, that’s, he’s• can’t, didn’t, wasn’t, isn’tHomophones-simpleContractions – morecomplexHomophones – morecomplex single syllable(break/brake, ate/eight)Meanings of these wordsmust be clearly understood bystudents so they can makeaccurate choices.Inflectional endings• Plurals <strong>and</strong> past tense• Three sounds of the pasttense markerCompound wordsContractionsHomophonesHigh frequency words• Starting with unaccentedsyllable a-• Starting with unaccentedsyllable be-Inflectional endings• No change (walking,asking)• Doubling (stopping)• E-drop (hoping)Unusual past tense words(sleep/slept, keep/kept,shine/shone)Unusual plurals(wife/wives, life/lives)Compound words – morecomplex(butterfly, anthill, seahorse,windmill, dishwasher,bookcase, lightbulb)Contractions in morecomplex words• Verb + not (couldnot/couldn’t)• Word + is (there is/ there’s)• Pronoun + verb (they are/they’re)Introduce concept of open<strong>and</strong> closed syllables• Open syllables end with along vowel sound: tiger,reason• Closed syllables contain ashort-vowel sound that isusually ‘closed’ by 2consonants: rabbit, racketHomophones – singlesyllable• Long –a (pale/pail;hair/hare)• Long –i (write/right;find/fined)Meanings of these wordsmust be clearly understood bystudents so they can makeaccurate choices.Homophones in singlesyllable wordsAmbiguous vowels (Vowelsthat are neither long norshort, thus ambiguous in thecontext of syllable stress)• Oy/oi, ow/ou(voyage,moisture,amount, employ)Vowel patterns inunaccented syllables• Unaccented final syllable(–le spelled le/el/il/al)• Unaccented final syllableer spelled er/ar/or• Unaccented final syllablechur spelled ture, sure(picture, measure)Homophones in two syllablewordsspedal/petal/peddle)Two syllable homographsPRESent/presENTAffixes (introduced as unitsof meaning)• Base word plus simpleprefixes• un, re, dis, mis• Base word plus simplesuffixes• -ful, -ly, -less,- ness• Comparative suffixes–er, -est, -ier, -iestAdding –ion to base words,no spelling change• Base –ct(subtract/subtraction)• Base –ss(express/expression)<strong>Bound</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Success</strong> <strong>Scope</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Sequence</strong> <strong>Statements</strong> V2 Page 16 Working Document Semester One 2007

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