Worksheet

Decoding The Sight Word BEFORE

Orthographic mapping involves the formation of letter-sound connections. It extracts the word’s spelling and stores it in long-term memory as a sight word.

Page 1.
Name the word. Say the word BEFORE. Ask the child to repeat the word BEFORE.
Name the individual phonemes. Point out that the word BEFORE has four phonemes.
Spell each sound. Point out that the word BEFORE has six graphemes.

Page 2.
Ask the child to trace the letters in the word BEFORE. Ask him to use green for a predictable spelling pattern and red for an unusual one.
Ask the child to say the word BEFORE and place a chip in a box for each sound he hears. Ask him how many sounds he hears.
Ask the child to write the letters to make the word BEFORE. Ask the child how to spell the word BEFORE letter by letter.
Optional: use a coding chart to mark spelling patterns.

Include the word BEFORE when teaching or reviewing the following topics: multisyllable words, r-controlled vowels, split digraphs (silent e).

Printing options: outlines and black lines.

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