The document describes a reading instruction activity where students are taught to group words according to their spelling patterns. Students are shown words by the teacher and asked to put them into the correct quadrant of a chart divided into four sections based on similar spelling patterns. This helps students learn to decode and spell new words using rhyme and word patterns. The activity is meant to be done competitively in groups and can incorporate student-generated words in addition to teacher-provided words.

1. A short note from:
What Research Has to Say About
Reading Instruction
Cunningham & Cunningham (2002)

3. Objective:
• Using current vocabulary to decode and spell
many other words.
How?
• Using rhyme and similar word pattern

4. Divide a chart into 4.
Underline spelling patterns.
bike car
van train

5. Teacher shows some words and pupils
grouped them into the quadrant of the
same spelling patterns.
Pupils say and pronounce words.

6. tar
hike
Span
grain
tan
far
spike
pain
Teacher writes the
words on the board.. Pupils put the words
into the quadrant
which have the same
patterns.
bike car
van train

7. Using a different set of words, teacher
says the words and pupils grouped them
into the same table.
bike
spike
hike
car
far
tar
van
tan
span
train
grain
pain

8. par
pan
like
man
main
can
bar
Teacher saysthese
words.
Pupils write the
words into the
quadrant which have
the same patterns.
bike
spike
hike
car
far
tar
van
tan
span
train
grain
pain

9. Activities can be done in groups,
encourage competitiveness among pupils.
The initial words can be based from a text,
subsequently can be generated by
teacher.
After step 3, teacher can ask the pupils to
add their own words. The words can be of
same rhyme but different spelling.