Lesson plan This unit deals with the students’ listening awareness of both short and long vowel sounds. You might note that there is no universally agreed concept of what each vowel sound should be. Although this book uses the phonetic symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet, which is based on Southern British English pronunciation, there are many other acceptable pronunciations which you could check in a good dictionary. | Teaching English Spelling A practical guide Ruth Shemesh Sheila Waller RM Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building Trumpington Street Cambridge United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building Cambridge CB2 2RU UK 40 West 20th Street New York NY 10011-4211 USA 477 Williamstown Road Port Melbourne VIC 3207 Australia Ruiz de Alarcon 13 28014 Madrid Spain Dock House The Waterfront Cape Town 8001 South Africa http Cambridge University Press 2000 This book is in copyright which normally means that no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. The copying of certain parts of it by individual teachers for use within their classrooms however is permitted without such formality. To aid identification pages which are copiable by the teacher without further permission are identified by a separate copyright notice Cambridge University Press 2000. First published 2000 Reprinted 2002 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press Cambridge Typeset in Sabon 12pt A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data applied for ISBN 0 521 63971 9 paperback Contents Thanks vii Introduction 1 1 Vowel sounds 9 Short vowel sounds 9 Short and long vowels - a comparison 21 2 The sound k k 24 c or k 24 -ck or -k at the end of a word 34 -ic 42 qu 51 -x 59 3 Single vowel followers 69 -ll -ss -ff -zz 69 -dge 77 -tch 82 4 The sound i ai i-e 89 -y 100 -igh 110 89 5 The sound a ei a-e 116 -ay 126 ai 135 116 6 The sound o oo o-e 141 -ow 153 oa 162 141
