Sequence of Word Study: Syllables and Affixes
• Plural ending
o s/es-walks, beaches
• Compound Words
o Pancake, sidewalk
• Inflectional endings
o Doubling-stopping
o E-drop- hoping
o No change-walking, nailing
• Changing final y to i
o Bunny/bunnies, happy/happily
• Open and closed syllables
o VCCV double-button/cattle
o CVVC different-window, sister
o VCV open-bacon, lazy
o VCV closed-river, cover
• Vowel patterns in accented and unaccented syllables
o Vowel patterns in accented syllables-parading, preparing
o Vowel patterns in unaccented syllables-deposit
o Two-syllable homophones-pedal/petal/peddle
o Two-syllable homographs-PRESent/present
o Spelling patterns at the end of words:
El/le; or er/ar: label/middle, doctor, lawyer, lunar
Schwa+r: beggar/barber/actor
Schwa+n: captain/human/frighten/basin/apron
Schw+l: angel/able/central/civil/fertile
• The /j/ sound at the middle and end of words: badger/major/village
• Base words + simple prefixes
o Un, re, dis, in, non, mis, pre, uni, bi, tri, en
• Base words + simple suffixes
o Ful, ly, less, ness, ion/tion
