Irregular Rimes - Hot Cereal
What: Irregular rimes are words that do not follow phonetic rules and are not high frequency words. Analytic phonics recognizes that a single syllable word has two parts: onset and rime. In the word most, m is the onset and ost is the rime. Based on phonetic rules, the "o" would have a short sound. In this case, it does not follow the rule, therefore, it is called an irregular rime. Why: Without automatic recognition of irregular rime words, the student will not be able to read at a steady and fluent rate. The goal is to see and say a word in less than one second. How: My Breakfast Reading Program introduces y and w as vowels and irregular vowel patterns based on rime families (ay, ost, ear, ight, etc...) using the sight word method. These irregular rimes are presented in Lessons 23 - 53 as illustrated in Table 1. Lesson 29 introduces 80 irregular long vowel sound rimes based on 5 rime families using the analytic phonics method. Lesson 30 introduces 39 irregular short vowel sound rimes based on 5 rime families using the analytic phonics method. Repetition, repetition, repetition.
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Table 1 : Irregular Vowel Patterns
Irregular Vowel Pattern | Lesson | Rime Families | Example |
y and w as a vowel | 23 - 24 25 26 - 27 |
ay y ow |
bay - day cry - fly - spy bow - low - row - show |
Irregular a - short/long | 28 29 |
ance eigh - ey |
dance - chance -
glance weigh - sleigh - hey - they |
Irregular e - short/long | 30 31 32 33 34 |
ead edge ief - ield ealth ence - ense |
dead - head - bread
- thread pledge - ledge - pledge brief - chief - field - shield health - wealth fence - sense - tense |
Irregular i - short/long | 35 36 37 - 38 39 40 41 42 |
inge ince ight igh ild - all ind ye |
tinge - hinge - cringe wince - since - prince knight - light - bright - sight sigh - high mild - wild - call - fall kind - grind - blind aye - dye - eye - rye |
Irregular o - long or oo | 43 44 45 46 47 48 |
o
- oo old oll olt ost own |
no - so - pro - boo
- do - to bold - cold - sold poll - roll - scroll - stroll bolt - colt - jolt - volt host - most - ghost known - thrown - blown |
Irregular u - short | 49 50 51 |
udge ough ove |
budge - fudge -
judge - smudge rough - tough - slough glove - dove - love |
Irregular R Controlled | 52 53 |
ore arge - ear |
more - sore - score barge - large - bear - pear |