Syllables and Affixes Stage

• Doubling & e-drop with -ed and -ing

  • Example could be when to double, e-drop, or nothing when adding -ing.

    • double ~ setting, cutting, stopping, begging

    • e-drop ~ hiking, moving, living, coming

    • nothing ~ reading, adding, spelling, floating

• Other syllable and affix doubling

  • VCV ~ super or su/per, diner or di/ner, tiger or ti/ger, later or la/ter

  • VCCV ~ supper or sup/per, dinner or din/ner, happy or hap/py, pretty or pret/ty

• Long vowel patterns (stressed syllable)

  • 1st syllable ~ rainbow, painter, raisin, crayon, mayor

  • 2nd syllable ~ awake, contain, decay, mistake, amaze

• R-controlled vowels (stressed syllable)

  • 1st ar ~ garden, market, carpet, harvest

  • 1st long a ~ airplane, parents, haircuts, dairy

  • 2nd long a ~ compare, aware, despair, repair

• Unstressed syllable vowel patterns

  • -le ~ cattle, saddle, couple, angle

  • -el ~ model, level, angel, novel

  • -il ~ until, April, fossil, evil

  • -al ~ final, total, mental, signal

  • oddball ~ fragile, special

• Commonly misspelled words at this stage:

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