\u201cI can explain! An r-controlled vowel is like there’s an r behind a vowel and then it makes a different sound and it changes the sound sometimes. A-r makes ‘\/ar\/’ instead of ‘\/ah\/.’\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
First Grade readers and spellers helped classmates last week with a newly learned syllable type: the r-controlled vowel. Taking turns in leadership roles, students also led classmates in drilling the many \u201cglued\u201d sounds (i.e. -onk, -ong) they have learned this year. Then they practiced reading and writing the words could, would, and should, as new trick words. They had a lively debate about whether \u201cthis\u201d has to be a trick word if it contains<\/em> a trick word (is) and gave examples to distinguish the homophones would and wood: \u201cActually, they are two letters different. It’s because w-o-u-l-d would be used in a sentence, like, that’s a question, and the other wood is like a material. From trees.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n As students help each other notice similarities, differences, rhymes, connections (\u201cI have an r-controlled vowel in my name! I do!\u201d), and previously learned rules, they build their own confidence and fluency as readers while also celebrating the joys of language and words at their own age and stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI can explain! An r-controlled vowel is like there’s an r behind a vowel and then it makes a different sound and it changes the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,248,20,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum-connections","category-just-right-challenge","category-lower-school","category-the-hillbrook-center-for-teaching-excellence"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1st-vowels-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C2070","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}