Chunks: More than Letter Sounds!

Automaticity with sounds and chunks is critical for reading fluency and comprehension.

Key and Directions for Materials

KEY:
K-1 Beginning
1-2 Growing
Intervention/Challenge

Bundle: Additional various activities to practice a specific skill
Pack: Additional multiple versions of a specific activity to practice a specific skill

Directions for everything else:

Teaching Videos and Written Stories

sound of -ng including cheater chunk -ang

sound of -nk including cheater chunk -ank

The Big Sounds Pack

*The Big Sounds Pack As you go through the steps, practice known sounds and then add new ones as they are introduced. This sounds pack includes the 26 letters plus 73 more letter combinations that need to be learned like th, ch, igh, aw, and many, many more!
Directions: Practice for just a couple minutes, many times each day. Print sounds back to back so the correct sound along with a target word will be printed on the back. Keep reviewing the sounds already known, and as new ones are introduced add them to the pack! Being automatic with the sounds for 99 letters and letter combinations is crucial for reading. Use the strategy in Learning New Words or Sounds With Flashcards in order to bring the sounds to automaticity.

Word and Phrase Lists

Long Vowel Chunks

Highlight target chunk and then read word!
igh eigh ang ank old ind ild oll olt ost*

Word List: Long Vowel Chunks vertical
Word List: Long Vowel Chunks horizontal
Word List: -igh with Endings (See directions in green box below)
Word List: eigh says long a
Word List: Long Vowel Chunks -ank -ang
Word List: Long Vowel Find the Colt ind, old, ost, ild, olt, igh, oll, eigh
Word and Phrase List igh: Who Likes the Night? igh

. -igh words with added morphemes worksheet.

Morphology – building words with meaningful chunks. While learners start to become more comfortable with longer words and word parts, it is a good time to practice noticing that words are be built by adding prefixes and suffixes to a base word. This is the beginning of the study of morphology. Morphemes are the smallest units that have meaning (ie. incoming has 3 morphemes: in, come, ing).

Finding Morphemes and Making Words With Long Vowel Cheater Chunk -igh:
Click here for the -igh says the long /i/ sound worksheet.
Directions: Highlight the -igh chunk in each title word. For the words below the title word, underline the title word and highlight the additional morphemes. (The title words on this page are each a single morpheme.) See Picture.