Teaching spelling generalisations: Gentle Cindy slide outlines
1. Teaching spelling generalisations: ‘Gentle Cindy’ – soft g and soft c
Extract from a Literacy Hub professional learning webinar.
2. ‘Gentle Cindy’ – soft g and soft c
Before learning the ‘Gentle Cindy’ rule, students need to have knowledge of:
- reading and spelling multisyllabic words – next webinar
- silent e [example words use split digraphs as shown in ‘date’, ‘bike’]
- final y [example words ‘by’, ‘spy’, ‘body’, ‘family’]
- r-controlled vowels [example words ‘farm’, ‘bird’, ‘corn’]
3. Literacy Hub phonics progression
[Image: Screenshot of Phase 17 of the Literacy Hub phonics progression: Phonic knowledge and word recognition level 7/8. The table shows four columns within the phase. The first column is labelled Letter–sound correspondences and the five rows beneath the heading show soft g/c (which is circled); dge; tch, ph; and kn. The second column is labelled Letter-sound skills, and the text reads: Apply new and existing code knowledge to read and spell a variety of word types, including multisyllabic words. Phase 17 example words: germ, large, cent, city, force, pledge, stitch, graph, knee, knock. The third column is labelled Morphology, and the text within this column reads: Suffix -er: Comparative, for example, bigger, smaller. The fourth column is labelled Irregular words, and the words listed are: half, move, gone, both.]
4. Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisation for soft g and soft c
[Image: Screenshot shows 24 slides from the slide deck for the phonics lesson teaching the spelling generalisation for soft g and soft c (the ‘Gentle Cindy’ rule). The progression of slides uses the ‘I do, We do, You do’ phases of instruction, and guides students to build knowledge through working with individual words through to sentence work. The lesson also covers the irregular word: half. Seven of the slides have a red star indicating the webinar presenters will elaborate further on these slides.]
5. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 1 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck. Text reads: I do … Gentle Cindy. Illustration shows a girl – Gentle Cindy – whose eyes are made from two letter ‘e’s, nose is made from a letter i, mouth is made from the letter y, right side ear shows an earring made from the letters c and s, and left side ear shows an earring made from the letters g and j.]
6. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 2 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck. Text reads: I do … Gentle Cindy. g g c c.]
7. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 4 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck: Text reads: I do … cell; age; fancy.]
8. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 7 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck: Text reads: We do … ice.]
9. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 10 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck: Text reads: I do … and infographic shows an emoji of a face, indicating ‘face’ is the ‘Gentle Cindy’ word to be decoded.]
10. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 15 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck: Text reads: We do … and infographic shows three infographics representing ‘race’, ‘germ’ and ‘space’ showing these are the Gentle Cindy words to be decoded.]
11. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 19 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck: Text reads: We do …. and shows a sentence to be decoded: Gerry ate a huge plate of rice.]
12. Gentle Cindy
[Image: Slide 20 of the ‘Gentle Cindy’ slide deck: Text reads: I do … and shows infographic of a pencil.]
13. Gentle Cindy
[Image and text explain the ‘c or k’ rule.}
‘k takes i and e, c takes the other three (a, o and u)’
C: cat, cob, cut [image shows letter C with a cat’s face drawn into it using the letters a, o and u for eyes, nose and mouth.]
K: kid, keg, kin [image shows letter K with kite drawn into it with the letters e and I forming two of the triangles of the kite’s sail.]
14. Daily review slides – soft g and c
[Image: Seven slides from the phonics lesson daily review for the soft g and c spelling generalisation rule. Slide 1: What sound? g. Slide 2: What sound? c. Slide 3: What sound? gi. Slide 4: What sound? ca. Slide 5: Say these sounds with me. What’s the word? Your turn. Say the sounds. What word? gem. Slide 6: Decoding sentence: The mice are in the cage. Slide 7: Dictation sentence. The dictation sentence is written beneath the slide: I have a gem on my necklace.]