R Controlled Vowels - Orange Juice       

What: 

R Controlled vowels are the vowels a, e, i, o, and u that are influenced by the letter "r".  There are six sounds created by "r" influenced vowels.  There are 13 vowel patterns that create the six sounds.

• ar - car
• ur - fur, dirt, fern
• or - for
• air - pair, fare, pear
• ear - hear, deer
• ire - fire
• ore - store, oar (same sound as "or")

Why: 

Since R Controlled vowels make up 8% of single syllable words and have six sounds and thirteen different vowel patterns, they have to have a special focus.  The goal is to see and say a word in less than one second.

How: 

My Breakfast Reading Program presents single vowel R Controlled words using the synthetic phonics method in Lessons 43 - 46. 

My Breakfast Reading Program presents two vowel R Controlled words using the analytic phonics method in Lessons 52 - 53.

Repetition, repetition, repetition.