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Phonics/Spelling Vowel Changes

Phonics/Spelling Vowel Changes Rule: Some words related in meaning are also related in spelling, even though the vowel sound may change. Compare the spelling and pronunciation to the two similar words. Compare the meanings, spellings, and pronunciations of each pair.

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Phonics/Spelling Vowel Changes

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  1. Phonics/Spelling Vowel Changes Rule: Some words related in meaning are also related in spelling, even though the vowel sound may change. Compare the spelling and pronunciation to the two similar words. Compare the meanings, spellings, and pronunciations of each pair.

  2. Out on the frontier of the 1800s, American settlers liked to exaggerate. They created heroes and heroines who were larger than life and did amazing deeds. The result was a new kind of story - the tall tale. Tall tales are still told today. After you read these examples, add to the tradition and write your own! Tall Tales

  3. Paul Bunyan, the Mightiest Logger of Them All retold by Mary Pope Osborne John Henry Races The Steam Drill retold by Paul Robert Walker February From McBroom’s Almanac by Sid Fleischman Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind retold by Mary Pope Osborne

  4. Theme 1:Nature’s Fury • Teacher Read Aloud: Bess Call • Retold by Kevin Supples • Building Background: • 1. The genre focus is Tall Tales • 2. What do you know about tall tale characters? • Comprehension Skill: Understanding Tall Tales • 1. Tall Tales differ from other stories. • 2. The characters and events are exaggerated. • Some tall tales explain how a natural • phenomenon or event came about.

  5. Theme 1:Nature’s Fury • Setting a Purpose: Pay attention to exaggerated characters and actions as I read aloud, Bess Call. • What clues tell you that the story is a tall tale? • Which of Bess’s and Joe’s activities are clues that the story is a tall tale? • 3. Why do you think Dewey D. finally leaves, never to return to Call Farm?

  6. Loggers

  7. Vocabulary Fluency How Fast Can You Read the Words? deeds tale exaggerate tradition frontier varmint hero forage heroine dismal settler instinct

  8. acts or actions deeds The young boy was knighted for his virtuous and brave deeds. Synonyms: endeavors accomplishments

  9. the main male character in a story, poem, or play hero The hero was commended with a medal and a key to the city. Synonym: conqueror idol

  10. to describe something as being greater or larger that it really is exaggerate She has a tendency to exaggerate the truth. Synonyms: embellish inflate

  11. a remote area beyond which few people live frontier The development of the railroad helped to move the American frontier farther west.

  12. the main female character in a story, poem, or play heroine Everyone called Mandy a heroine after she saved the kitten from the pond. Synonyms: conqueror idol

  13. a person who settles in a new region settler The settler laid claim to the piece of land. Synonyms: colonist pioneer

  14. a story, usually an imaginary or made-up one tale A good storyteller makes any tale exciting. Synonyms: fiction narrative

  15. an idea, custom, or belief that is passed down from one generation to the next tradition It is a family tradition to make carmel apples and popcorn balls on Halloween. Synonyms: ritual practice

  16. wild creature varmint I can outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint from Maine to Louisiana.

  17. search forage One evening Mike crept into an old alligator skin and met Sally just as she was taking off to forage in the woods for berries. Synonyms: scavenge rummage

  18. gloomy dismal Folks around here call it McBroom’s Natural Winter Extract & Relief for the Summer Dismals. Synonyms: drab dreary bleak

  19. knowledge one is born with instinct That holey black sock had the instinct of a homing pigeon. Synonyms intuition sense

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