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Consonant Patterns

Consonants usually represent one sound during earlier lessons on alphabetic principles students would learn to recognize letters. In phonics we have to put sounds and graphemes together.

Consonants can also make blends, two letters the blend into each other such as /c/ and /l/ in “clear” or a a digraph, where two letters make a new sound such as /sh/ in ship.

CLOVER

We use the mnemonic device CLOVER to remember the six common phonics consonant patterns.

  • C-closed. meaning the word ends in a consonsant such as cat. Closed words usually have a short vowel sound
  • L. -Consant-le such as“bubble” these words do not follow the magic e rule
  • O Open words such as “she” that end in a vowel and not a consonant. These have a long vowel sound
  • V Vowel combinations such as digraphs and dipthongs found in vowel phonics patterns
  • E The magic E rule, which is really a split digraph where the magic e makes the first vowel a long vowel
  • R R controlled vowel or bossy R. Negates the magic e rule. Try to say carve like cave but with a long vowel
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