Worksheet

Decoding The Sight Word LIVE

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

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

Include the word LIVE when teaching or reviewing the following topics: unusual spelling (v followed e).

Printing options: outlines and black lines.

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