Layers of Language: Enhancing Decoding, Spelling and Vocabulary Instruction Session 4

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Layers of Language Enhancing Decoding, Spelling
and Vocabulary InstructionSession 4

• Marcia Henry, Ph.D.
• Professor Emerita
• San Jose State University

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Anglo-Saxon Letter-sound Correspondences
CONSONANTS
Single Letter
Blends
Digraphs
VOWELS
Short/Long
-r -l controlled
Digraphs
From Henry, M. K. (2003) Unlocking literacy
Effective decoding and spelling instruction
(p.26). Baltimore Paul H. Brookes Publishing
Company (Adapted by permission from Calfee, R. C.
et al., (1981). The book Components of reading
instruction. Unpublished manuscript, Stanford
University, California.
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Spelling Rules

• Silent e
• -ff, -ll, -ss, (-zz)
• -ck, -tch, -dge
• Soft c and g
• Plurals

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Non-phonetic Words
Non-phonetic words must be memorized
as, typically, the vowel sound is
irregular. Common non-phonetic words
include off do does of want where there
one once only was are have to two were w
hat says said you your again who any