Level 3

Patterns introduced/practised:

Compound words as in cookbook, laptop, softball

Two-syllable words with closed syllables, as in invent, upset, camel

Contrasting a and a…e as in cap/cape, man/mane, tap/tape (column 1)

Contrasting i and i…e as in fin/fine, pip/pipe, win/wine (column 3)

Contrasting o and o…e as in hop/hope, not/note, rod/rode (column 4)

Contrasting u and u…e as in cub/cube, and e and e…e as in them/theme (columns 2 and 5)

a…e as in case, safe, lane

i…e as in hide, wide, smile

o…e as in broke, rope, stroke

u…e as in flute and June (“ooh” sound)  or as in cute and tune (“you” sound)

c as in cell, race, pencil

g as in gem, page, fragile

e…e as in gene, concrete, these

a as in apron, basin, vacant

e as in demon, even, secret

i as in kind, child, wind

i as in giant, diet, minus

o as in both, hippo, poncho

u as in emu, student, tuna

u as in fluid, scuba, tofu

y as in cry, July, tying

y as in baby, pony, tidy

rr as in parrot, errants, worry

Double consonants in two-syllable words, as in affect, happen, witty

i as in alien, deli, piano

Contractions as in he is = he’s, she has = she’s, we have = we’ve

-ing verbs as in camp-camping, kick-kicking, pull-pulling

-ing verbs as in clip-clipping, run-running, shop-shopping (doubled last consonant)

-ing verbs as in dive-diving, gaze-gazing, shine-shining (drop final e)

-ing nouns as in duckling, nothing, stocking

Words containing a and ending in le, as in apple, ladle, tackle

Words containing i and ending in le, as in bridle, fiddle, title

Other words ending in le as in bottle, buckle, kettle

Words ending in two consonants then le, as in candle, temple, uncle

ai as in rain, fail, stain

ee as in heel, reef, sheets

ea as in cream, meal, sea

oo as in moon, pool, tooth

er as in germs, her, serve

er as in father, grocer, ladder

ar as in car, dark, yard

ar as in collar, nectar, solar

or as in for, north, torch

or as in error, mirror, tractor

ou as in ground, out, south

Contrasting words with and without double letters, as in diner/dinner, holy/holly, super/supper

a as first syllable as in above, afraid, along (columns 3 and 4)

a as last syllable as in China, panda, sofa (columns 1 and 2)

e as first syllable as in eject, erase, escape (columns 1 and 2)

r as in fire, retire, tyre

r as in cure, manure, secure

Words ending in ture as in culture, future, picture

Words that have one more syllable in writing than in speech, as in chocolate, different, Wednesday

Homographs as in “We record a record”, “Insert the insert into your shoe” and “I suspect our main suspect is arriving”.

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