Worksheet

Decoding The Sight Word SMALL

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

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

Include the word SMALL when teaching or reviewing the following topics: unusual spelling (all spells /oll/).

Printing options: outlines and black lines.

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