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Teacher’s Notes
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Emergent Level 9
You can use the following notes to teach students word-level reading/decoding strategies. More in-depth notes
can be downloaded from the Teaching Phonics Knowledge section that accompanies this book at
www.giltedgepublishing.co.nz
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Total Word Count: (includes Title) ???
?? different words. ?? are high-frequency words, ?? are decodable, ?? are
non-decodable vocabulary words.
Decodability Criteria: Words in this book are either high-frequency words or are decodable according
to the following criteria:
• one letter = one sound (e.g. frost)
• doubled letters = one sound (e.g. grinned)
• word endings er, y, ed, ing (e.g. winter, Toby, by, groaned, skating)
• long vowel spellings at the start, in the middle and at the end of words
(e.g. over, frozen, toast, window, go)
(single vowels, two vowels together and vowel-plus-other-letters
spelling patterns)

Decoding Strategy: As well as revising previously taught strategies, the focus of this book is to
recognize the long ‘o’ sound in different positions in words. Spelling patterns
for the long ‘o’ sound are coded blue to help students notice them. Students
will meet these patterns: o (frozen, over, go, no, Toby, Josie, so, clothes),
oa (groaned, toast, coats), ow (window, snow, snowman), o_e (woke, drove,
whole, home, nose). When students meet these blue spelling patterns, remind
them they will sound like a long ‘o’.

Non-decodable Words: High-frequency words: another, breakfast, clothes, first, love, morning, now,
one, out, said, she, shouted, the, there, their, they, white
Vocabulary words: world, whole, warmest, town
Important Vocabulary Verbs: woke, looked, frozen, skating, groaned, grinned, make, took, drove,
in Text: wanted, smiled, love
Nouns: window, frost, dam, breakfast, toast, clothes, town, day, home, morning,
snow, snowman, coats, nose, winter

Ideas for Teaching: Full notes for teaching reading comprehension strategies, phonemic
awareness, phonics knowledge, vocabulary knowledge and fluency can be
downloaded for ???????? from www.giltedgepublishing.co.nz

It is not expected that this book would be used to teach all areas, but you could choose a particular area
to suit the needs of your students and use this book to teach the skills they are developing.