Spelling Words February 10-13

Spelling Pattern: February 10-February 20^th

BOSSY ‘R’ :    /ar/    /are/  /air/ 

-CVC words with /ar/ sound like a pirate saying “arrrrr” as in “car” “far”

-CVCe words with /are/ make a sounds like “air” as in “care” “bare” 

CVVC Tricky spelling:  sometimes /ea/ and /ai/ with a BOSSY ‘R’ make the /air/ sound as in: “bear” “pair”

*remembering which words are homophones will help to distinguish between the spellings.  Example: bear/bare,pair/pear, fair/fare 

*The homophonesare usually the “oddball” words, with the exception of “where” because it has the /air/ sound, but spelled with ‘ere’ 

Green

far	*bare
are	*bear
dark	hard
park	yard
care	large

* homophones bare/bear  which sound the same, but have different spellings and different meanings

bear: "The diet of the black bear mainly consists of berries." 

bare: "The tree branches were bare in the winter, and full of green leaves in the summer."

Sort: 

CVC short sound: /ar/ "r" sound 

CVCe long sound: /are/ "air" sound 

Sight word: are

Challenge word: large has soft g, with silent e at the end (which is often a rule) 

Yellow

share	carve
careful	party
arch	where
**March	*stare
starve	*stair

*Homophones "stare/stair" sound the same, but have different spellings and different meanings.

**Homonym: March (noun: as in "The month of March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.") and march (verb: as in the action, "The band will march on."

Oddball/Sight word: where (rhymes with stare) 

Sort: short /ar/ sound as in "car" verses long sound /air/ as in "careful" "stare" "stair" 

Purple

startle	February
sharpen	carefully
*heart	carriage
*airtight	marriage
squared	charming

 *Oddballs: 

heart (has 'ar' sound, preceding e does not say it's own name typical of /ea/ words due to the bossy r). "carriage and marriage" can be considered oddball words - despite the /ar/ spelling it has an /air/ sound even though it is not a CVCe word.  

 "airtight" is an oddball because it is not an /ar/ word, but it sounds the same as CVCe words like care.