The two voices of the “ow” spelling pattern
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A lesson plan for grade 3 English Language Arts
This lesson demonstrates to students how the combination of two vowels represents a different sound. After becoming acquainted with the “ow” sound, students participate in activities that support Jerry Zutell’s 6-step framework:
- The teacher administer a pretest for prediction and discussion.
- Students use print and online resources to hunt words that follow a specific pattern.
- Students are engaged in assisted sorting of words that follow the “ow&rdquo pattern.
- Students participate in cooperative and individual word sorting.
- Students practice finding certain words with nursery rhymes.
- The teacher measures and records student success.
Readwritethink provides links to several websites that contain nursery rhymes and can be used for this assignment.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 3
- Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.01: Apply phonics and structural analysis to decode words (e.g., roots, suffixes, prefixes, less common vowel patterns, syllable breaks).
