PREPARE IN ADVANCE FOR DICTATION
ALPHABET LETTER SOUNDS You dictate the letter and your student writes the letter that you say. You say, "k" and your student writes "K". You make the sound of "QU" and your student writes "QU". Remember Q doesn't have a sound without its helper U.
V W X A B R S C D E F G H I J K L C D E M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
WORDS WITH DIGRAPHS You dictate the word and your student writes the letters that create the sound of the digraph in the word. You say, "each" and your student writes "ch".
each child patch chin
shop that with match
catch chick clock gnat
ghost knot
phone (The student will not hear the final e. Tell your student that the sound of e is playing Hide and Seek.)
WORDS WITH BLENDS
You dictate the word and your student writes the letters that
create the sound of the blend in the word. You say,
"bring" and your student writes "br".
bring crab drum slip
grab strum trip snip
spot stop swim smack
twig blot clash flag
gland plan
WHAT IS THE SOUND OF VOWELS HEARD IN THE MIDDLE OF WORDS?
You dictate the word and your student writes the letter that
creates the vowel sound in the word. You say, "hat" and
your student writes "a".
hat, mat, lap, strap, cap, man, hand, sand, cat, rat
fed, met, let, hen, men, when, send, lend, mend, gem
dim, him, his, lit, hit, fit, rim, rib, nip, bit, rip, lip
hot, not, pot, lot, mop, slop, rot, got, mom, Tom, bomb
hug, lug, slug, mug, rug, tug, thug, hut, pup, rub, nut
WORDS WITH VOWEL COMBINATIONS
You dictate the word and your student writes the letters that
create the sound of the vowel combination in the word. You say,
"bait" and your student writes "ai".
bait, laid, stay, day, maid, Kay, boy, lead, boat, steal, coat
pray, toe, toad, loan, bleed, tree, keep, leap, knee, reap
WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS
You dictate the word and your student writes the letters that
create the sound of the diphthong in the word. You say,
"boy" and your student writes "oy".
boy, toy, boing, Roy, crawl, paw, faucet, pow, gnaw, law, few drew, how, cow, brown, loin, join, coin, jaw, straw, shawl, wow
NOW GO BACK AND REPEAT THE DICTATION OF ALL THE WORDS ON THIS PAGE
You dictate the word and your student writes the entire word that you dictate.
You say, "bring" and your student writes
"bring".
You say, "each" and your student writes
"each".
You say, "hat" and your student writes "hat".
You say, "boy" and your student writes "boy".
Copyright © 1997 by Bill and Janae Cooksey, All rights reserved. No part of this material may be published in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
