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Janaye Davis

Professor Fantuzzi

ENG 487

13 March 2017
Project #1
My Name is Noah
My name is Noah. One day God told me, “There’s a big flood coming. Build a big
boat for you and your family.” Find the circle on this page.
So I built the big boat, just like God told me. Where is the circle on this page?
When the boat was finished, two of every animal came and got on board. Then I told
my family, “Hurry up and get inside.” Where are the squares on these two pages?
When everyone was in the ark, God closed the door. Soon the rain began. It rained
for forty long days and forty long nights. Find the rectangle on this page.
It rained so hard that soon there was no dry land. But everyone in my big boat was
safe and dry. Where is the rectangle on this page?
After the rain stopped, the water started to go down. I sent a dove out to look for dry
land. Find the triangle on this page.
One day, the dove did not come back. “She must have found a dry place to stay!” I
said. Where’s the triangle on this page?
When all the water was gone, everyone came out of the big boat. “Thank you, God,
for saving us from the flood,” I said. God put a rainbow in the sky and promised never to
flood the whole world again. Find the curve on these two pages.
What other shapes do you see?
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Grapheme-Phoneme Chart for Project #1

Consonants
Symbol Examples (Basic spelling) Alternate Spellings
/b/ Big, build, boat, built, board, began, but, back, rainbow -bb-
/d/ Day, God, told, flood, build, find, and, board, inside, Inside
door, rained, hard, dry, land, started, down, dove, did,
found, said, world, do
/f/ Floor, for, family, find, finished, forty, safe, after, found, (Paragraph)
from
/g/ God, big, got, get, began, go, gone, again (Pittsburgh)
/h/ Noah, hurry, hard Whole

/j/ Just Page

/k/ Coming, circle, came, closed, rectangle,

Like, ark
come, back, curve, queen
/l/ Told, flood, build, family, circle, built, animal, like, long, All
rectangle, land, triangle, place, whole, world
/m/ My, name, me, coming, family, animal, came (climb)

/n/ Name, Noah, one, find, on when, finished, animal, and Gone
then inside, soon, rain, began, rained, nights, no, land,
in, down, sent, not, found, rainbow, in, never, again
/p/ Page, up, place, put, promised Stopped

/r/ There’s, your, circle, where, every, board, squares, dark, Hurry
door, rain, rained, for, forty, rectangle, hard, dry, after,
water, triangle, from, rainbow, promised, never, world,
curve, other
/s/ Is, this, so, just, was, inside, squares, nights, safe, Circle, these, place
stopped, started, sent, must, stay, said, saving, us, sky,
shapes, see
/t/ Told, boat, built, just, got, get, it, nights, but, after, Finished, stopped, promised
stopped, water, started, to, sent, out, triangle, not, must,
stay, put, two
/v/ Every, saving, never Dove, curve

/w/ Was, water, rainbow, world, down Of, where, when, out, found
/y/ Day, you, your, stay (Bunion)
/z/ (Zinc) Closed, these
/ng/ Coming, long, rectangle, triangle, saving Thank, (Junk)
/sh/ Finished, she, shapes (Charade)
/ch/ (Chop) (Creature)
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th /θ/ (Neandertal)
There’s, this, these, the, thank
bath
th /ð/ ---------------------------------------
bathe
Then

/zh/ (Beige)
treasure
(Measure)

VOWELS

Symbol Examples (basic spelling) Alternate Spellings

Short vowels
/ĭ/ bit Is, big, family, this, finished, animal, Build, built, when, then, get, pages,
inside, in, it, did, promised sent
/ĕ/ bet Every, everyone, rectangle, never Said, again
/ă/ bat And, family, animal, began, that, land, have
after, back
/ŏ/ hot God, on, got, long, stopped, not, Water
promised

/ŭ/ but Just, up, but, must Coming, was, everyone, dove, one,
come, from, other
/ǝ/ about, sofa A, animal, again Noah, flood, the, of
/aw/ dawn (pawn) All, gone

Long vowels
/ā/ a_e (cane) Name, page(s), safe, place Rain(ed), day(s), triangle, stay, thank,
rainbow
/ē/ ee (beet) (sleep) Me, coming, every, hurry, these,
everyone, forty, she, began
/ī/ i _e (bite) Like, inside My, find, I, nights, dry, triangle, sky
/ō/ o_e (cone) Closed, whole Noah, told, boat, so, no, rainbow

/ū/ ōō (boot) (scoot) You, two, soon, to, too

Other
/ŏŏ/ book Look Put

Diphthongs
/oy/ boy (toy) (loin)
/ow/ gown (frown) Out, found
R-colored vowels
/ar/ far Ark, hard Are
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/ǝ r/ fur Curve Circle, every, hurry, water, never,

world, other
/er/ fair (pair) There’s, where, square
/ir / fear (smear) (Beer, sheer)
/or / for For, forty Your, board, door
/ur/ poor (floor) (snore)
| /ayr/ fire | (wire, hire) | (buyer, flyer)
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SPELLING PATTERNS
1. The letter /c/ sounds like /s/ when followed by e, i, & y (circle, place)
2. If a vowel is at the end of one-syllable word, it is usually long (me, she, you, no)
3. The letter y sounds like /ī/ at the end of one syllable words (my, dry, sky)
4. The sound /k/ is spelled c when followed by a, o, u (coming, came)
5. A vowel followed by a consonant is short (this, inside, in, it, never, and, on, got, just, again)
6. FLOSS RULE: A vowel followed by two of the same consonants is short (all, stopped)
7. The sound /j/ is spelled g when followed by e, I, or y (page)
8. A vowel followed by a consonant and silent e is long (name, like, whole, safe, place)
9. When two vowels appear side by side, the first vowel us usually long (rain, Noah, boat, triangle)
10. No word can end in v; it must followed by an e (dove, curve)
11. The digraph /ou/ is used in the middle of a syllable (found, out)
12. An open, unaccented vowel is long (closed, animal, triangle)
13. The letter y sounds like /ē/ at the end of two syllable words (every, hurry, forty)
14. The sound /y/ comes at the beginning of a word (you, your)
15. The sound /k/ is spelled –ck at the end of one-syllable words with short vowels (back)
16. When h follows c, s, t, w, or p, the combination stands for a new sound (then, where, shapes)
17. When a vowel is followed by the letter r it has a different sound (for, ark)
18. Verbs ending in voiceless sounds [p, k, θ, f, s, ʃ, t] cause the “-ed” ending to be pronounced as the
voiceless [t] (finished, stopped, promised)
19. When at the end of a word, the letter y makes the preceding vowel a long (day, stay)
20. To make a regular verb past tense, add –ed (rained, started)