Phonics #7

This section of phonics was dealing with vowels affected by consonants that follow. For example, 'r-controlled' vowels and vowels followed by l or w. This section was fairly easy and common sense. The only difficult part to remember is when the grapheme /a/ appears, to know which phoneme it sounds like. Or, also when a schwa appears - because it can appear in the grapheme /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, or /u/. 

A vowel in an unaccented syllable that represents a soft 'uh' sound is considered a schwa

family, comma, chicken, melon, circus, lion, pencil

However, it may also represent a soft i sound as well

manage, village

/a/ can sound like father, ball, care (all different phonemes represented by same grapheme)

r controlled vowels: appear right before r and cannot be separated from r sound

care, first, arm, more

Fox, B. (2010). Phonics and structural analysis for the teacher of reading. (10 ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.