SIPPS Challenge Level Lesson 7

SIPPS
Challenge Level
Lesson 7

By ANGELA LOOMIS

Sound Review

i_
"in the chair"

sh
"Hush little baby"

o_
"on the chair"

a_
"at the chair"

_y
"high kite"
y at the end of a one-syllable word
The short blank indicates a one-syllable word

u_
"under the chair"

e_
"edge of the chair"

__y
"tree"
y at the end of a two-syllable word
The long blank indicates a polysyllabic word

Mixed Word list and Syllable Reading

mash

shop

fish

yell

rush

bib

lish

shap

lesh

tet

splash

shaft

fresh

swell

slush

clip

plish

shump

swosh

tress

Syllabic Transformations

po

om

pom

ib

ni

nib

tut

tu

ut

sa

saf

af

ep

ke

kep

Sight Syllables

ad
(advice, admit)

pic
(picture, picnic)

ex-
(explain, ex-president)
[prefix in some words]

Sight Syllable
Review

Underlined
Read, Spell, Read again

Irregular Syllables

not underlined.
Just read

Regular Syllables

Two Types

-er
(better, winner)
[suffix in some words]

-ly
(friendly, jolly)
[suffix in some words]

-ble
(table, trouble)

-gle
(jungle, single)

-ple
(apple, people)

-dle
(puddle, candle)

-tle
(bottle, little)

col
(college, colony)

ad
(advice, admit)

pic
(picture, picnic)

ex-
(explain, ex-president)
[prefix in some words]

Reading by Syllables

sal.ad (We have to be flexible when we put the word together and connect it with a word we've heard before)
mag.ma

​REBELS

mem.ber
ba.sic
pub.lish

Helpful Examples

Our vowel rules can be helpful for reading many words.

Why the REBELS

Why doesn't the whole word always sound like the syllables? It's often because there is different emphasis on different syllables in words Some syllables are emphasized and said more strongly. These syllables are called accented or stressed syllables, and in dictionaries they are often marked with an accent that looks like this:'
The first syllable in the word salad is accented: sal'ad

Schwa

The second syllable in salad is unaccented The vowel in an unaccented or unstressed syllable often changes to the short-u sound.

The second a in salad is pronounced like short u because it is in an unaccented (or unstressed) syllable.
An unaccented vowel that sound like u is called a schwa. In the dictionary it is written like this:
This u sound is very important for both reading and spelling English words.

mid.

dle

mid.dle

cap.

i.

tal

cap.i.tal

ad.

mit

ad.mit

bas.

ket

bas.ket

stu.

dent

stu.dent

Think-Ahead Spelling