Vowel Team Series: Vowel Team Series, Book 6: /o͞o/ & /ū/ – ew

Zahra Nawaz

mai 2022 · Vowel Team Series 6. number · Nurturing Dyslexics

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Do you ever wonder how to teach students when to use the various spelling patterns that can be used to spell the sounds /ū/ (u, u-e, ue, ew, eu) & /o͞o/ (u, u-e, ue, ew, oo, ou, ui)? Do your students have trouble differentiating which words spell the /ū/ & /o͞o/ sounds using the spellings "ue" and "ew", both of which can make the same sounds- "ue" says /ū/ in avenue and /o͞o/ in glue; "ew" also says /ū/ in dew and /o͞o/ in screw.

With its two different fun stories, this book helps students who struggle with remembering the confusing spellings of words that use the spelling pattern of "ew".

This book features two stories, one for each of the sounds made by the grapheme "ew".

The first title, "Andrew at Jewel Mountain", is a story featuring Andrew who plays an adventure video game and manages to crack the peril laden levels to reach the final treasure. This story covers 19 focus words that are spelled with the grapheme "ew", making the /o͞o/ sound.

The second title, "Curfew in the City", is a follow-up story of Andrew and his mother who take shelter due to extreme weather at an old church on their way to meet Andrew's new-born nephew. During the time at the church, Andrew manages to solve a mystery. This story covers 27 focus words that are spelled with the grapheme "ew", making the /ū/ sound. 

Andrew at Jewel Mountain and Curfew in the City is a decodable resource focussing on 19 common words that use the "ew" spelling pattern to spell /o͞o/ and 27 common words that use the "ew" spelling pattern to spell /ū/. It is the sixth book in the Vowel Team Series.

The books in the vowel team series have been developed to help students with the orthographic mapping of focus words. Every book in this Vowel Team Series will focus on one or two related vowel teams and include multiple focus words spelled with the same spelling pattern that students of school age will encounter during reading and spelling.

Students with learning difficulties who struggle to differentiate the multiple spelling patterns of long vowel sounds will benefit from using this decodable book. The intention is for children to associate the focus words with the story and subsequently become fluent in encoding and decoding those words.

The books come with educator resources that can be used in conjunction with this book to reinforce the spelling patterns covered in each book.