Dr. Phyllis Fischer’s

The Sounds & Spelling Patterns of English

Chapter I: A Few Words about Words

Chapter II: Vowels and Consonants
Vowels

Single Vowels

Vowel Teams

Vowels Followed by “R”

     Consonants

 Single Consonants

 Single-Sound Consonant Teams

 Consonant Blends

 Hard and Soft C and G

 Y as a Consonant and as a Vowel

Chapter III: Syllables

 The Six Syllable Types
Closed Syllables
Open Syllables
Magic-E Syllables
Vowel-Team Syllables
Vowel-R Syllables

Consonant Patterns in Monosyllabic Words

Chapter IV: Multisyllable Words

Prefixes and Suffixes
Rules for Adding Suffixes

The Doubling (or 1-1-1) Rule

 The Silent-E Rule

 Adding Suffixes to Words That End in Y

Compound Words

Syllable Division Patterns
The CLE Pattern
The VCCV Pattern
The VCV Pattern

Pronunciation of Multisyllable Words

Chapter V: Phonemic Awareness

Identifying the Problem

Developing Phonemic Awareness

Appendix A: Sounds for Consonants and Vowels

Consonants and Consonant Teams
Single Consonants
Single-Sound Consonant Teams
Consonant Blends
Other Letter Combinations

Vowels and Vowel Teams
The Vowel-Team Pictures

Thoughts on Teaching Vowel Sounds

Appendix B:  Prefixes and Suffixes  

 The Sounds and Spelling Patterns of English — a concise overview of the structure of written English words.  It explains clearly how their sounds are paired with their spelling patterns.

“Dr. Fischer has carefully edited this book for the use of the non-specialist.... There is no educational jargon, and the tone projects an all adults as teachers, all people as learners, outlook.”   
 LDA of Maine Newsletter

 “...a good and practical overview of English phonics.”                CHOICE

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This book is written for anyone who is or will be involved,
directly or indirectly, in teaching someone to read words.

• It describes the scope of the task of decoding English words, so it can be used as a primary text in courses that focus on methods for teaching reading-decoding and spelling, or as a supplementary text in virtually any course about reading skills.  
• It  provides the conceptual background for informed discussions about how best to help students learn the phonics skills.
•  It includes tips on teaching these sounds and patterns, especially on when it makes most sense to teach them.
• It is particularly useful for people who are skilled at using varied teaching techniques with new content and at preparing their own materials to teach that content.  
• It provides specific descriptions of the sounds and spelling patterns that must be mastered for reading proficiency, so it can help people involved in someone's reading instruction through informal conferences with educators or through a formal Individualized Educational Plan (IEP).

Phoneme Practice CD

for

The Sounds & Spelling Patterns of English

by Phyllis E. Fischer

Read by Dale Hill

© 1993, 2005

Oxton House Publishers, LLC.  

All rights reserved.

ISBN 1-881929-41-8

Track 1: Introduction

Tracks 2 – 20: The Consonants

Tracks 21 – 22: Marker-e and Consonant-l-e

Tracks 23 – 33: The Vowels

A valuable tool for teachers of beginning readers and English Language Learners!

The Basic Sounds of English

Read by Dale Hill, a professional actor and diction coach, this 40-minute CD models the sounds of all the letters and basic letter clusters ― the graphemes ― of the English language.  Each of the sounds is read twice with pauses in between, so that learners can compare what they say to what they hear.

These graphemes are listed and described in Appendix A of The Sounds and Spelling Patterns of English, with information about their phonemes and words that contain them.  But reading about a sound is not the same as hearing it!  This audio CD provides excellent models, free of regional dialect or accent, to help teachers with proper pronunciation.  For effective grapheme‹–›phoneme association, we suggest following along in Appendix A of the book.

Just $7.95 incl. shipping for this effective resource.  (Free with book purchase!)

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