Teaching syllable types: Two syllable words with a VC/CV pattern slide outlines

1. Teaching syllable types: Two-syllable words with a VC/CV pattern – ‘wombat’ words

Extract from a Literacy Hub professional learning webinar.

2. Syllable type: ‘wombat’ words

Generalisations for use: Two closed syllables in a two-syllable word with a VC/CV pattern.

3. Phonics lesson slides: Syllable division: two-syllable words with a VC/CV pattern

[Image: Screenshot shows 25 slides from the slide deck for the phonics lesson teaching the syllable division for ‘wombat’ words. 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: walk. Six of the slides have a red star indicating the webinar presenters will elaborate further on these slides.]

4. ‘Wombat’ words

[Image: Slide 3 from the ‘wombat’ words slide deck. Text reads: I do … wombat. Then the pattern VC/CV is shown above the word, to indicate what we need to have students look for in their two-syllable words to know where to split the syllables between the two consonants. In the example word, wombat, a slash splits the word between the wom and bat, to indicate our two syllables: wom/bat.]

5. ‘Wombat’ words

[Image: Slide 4 from the ‘wombat’ words slide deck. Text reads: We do … sudden. The word ‘sudden’ follows the VC/CV pattern, so the word is split with a slash indicating the syllable split between sud and den, sud/den. The second example word is ‘bandit’. Again, the VC/CV pattern is identified and the word split with a slash between ban and dit, ban/dit, indicating our two syllables. The third sample word is ‘problem’, which also follows the VC/CV pattern, and is split into prob and lem, indicating the syllable split is prob/lem.

6. ‘Wombat’ words

[Image: Slide 8 from the ‘wombat’ words slide deck. Text reads: We do … magnet cobweb puppet.]

7. ‘Wombat’ words

[Image: Slide 14 from the ‘wombat’ words slide deck. Text reads: We do …. Infographic shows a tennis racket, indicating the word for students to decode is ‘tennis’. This is followed by infographics for the words ‘sunset’ and ‘trumpet’.]

8. ‘Wombat’ words

[Image: Slide 20 from the ‘wombat’ words slide deck. Text reads: We do …. And sentence for decoding for ‘wombat’ words reads: I had an insect on my helmet.]

9. ‘Wombat’ words

[Image: Slide 22 from the ‘wombat’ words slide deck. Text reads: We do … and infographic of a pencil indicates students will write the dictated sentence featuring ‘wombat’ words.]

10. ‘Wombat’ words student worksheet

Check for understanding

[Image: Slide 24 from the ‘wombat’ words slide deck showing the student worksheet for the ‘wombat’ words lesson. Worksheet features words for letter and sound practice words (combat, goblet, sunfish), words to read (admit, rabbit, publish), space to write some dictated ‘wombat’ words, irregular word practice for the word ‘walk’, and space to write a dictated sentence.]

11. Daily slide review – VC/CV words

[Image: Four slides for the daily review section for the ‘wombat’ words lesson. Slide 1 says: ‘Say these sounds with me. What’s the word? Your turn. Say the sounds. What word?’ Then the word shown is ‘cactus’. Slide 2 says: ‘Let’s get ready to write’ and the word for dictation shown below the slide is ‘impact’. Slide 3 shows a sentence for decoding, ‘There is a problem with my muffin.’ Slide 4 says: ‘Dictation sentence’, and the sentence for dictation is written below the slide, ‘The sea was like velvet at sunset.’]