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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSyllable Division VCCV Pattern Routine17Instructional Routines © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Grade 1 Additional Resources Instructional Routines Instructional Routine 8: Syllable Division VCCV Pattern Purpose: Use this routine to teach children how to read words with the VCCV syllable pattern. 1 • Write a word with a VCCV pattern, but do not read the word aloud. napkin 2 • Remind children that each syllable in a word has a vowel sound. • Have children identify the vowels in the word. • Write a V under each vowel. Look at this word. Which letters are vowels? a, i nap kin v v 3 • Have children identify the consonants between the vowels. • Write a C under each consonant. Which letters are consonants that fall between the vowels? p, k nap kin vc cv 4 • Point out the VCCV pattern. • Explain that when dividing a VCCV word, the syllables are divided between the two consonants. • Draw a slash between the two consonants in the word and between the C ’s in the VCCV pattern. When you see a vowel-consonant- consonant-vowel pattern, divide the word into syllables between the two consonants. nap/kin vc/cv 5 • Have children sound out each syllable and blend the syllables to read the word. Let’s blend the syllables to read the word: /n/ /ă/ /p/ /k/ / ĭ/ /n/. What’s the word? napkin 6 • If children have difficulty reading the syllables correctly, remind them that each syllable has a CVC pattern, so the vowels are short. Nap has a short a sound. Kin has a short i sound. When you put the two syllables together, you get napkin. DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=B