Worksheet

Decoding The Sight Word BOTH

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 BOTH. Ask the child to repeat the word BOTH.
Name the individual phonemes. Point out that the word BOTH has three phonemes.
Spell each sound. Point out that the word BOTH has four graphemes.

Page 2.
Ask the child to trace the letters in the word BOTH. Ask him to use green for a predictable spelling pattern and red for an unusual one.
Ask the child to say the word BOTH 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 BOTH. Ask the child how to spell the word BOTH letter by letter.
Optional: use a coding chart to mark spelling patterns.

Include the word BOTH when teaching or reviewing the following topics: irregular words, o as long o, consonant digraphs.

Printing options: outlines and black lines.

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