4th-5th Grade Review MS Level All Sounds – Reading Simplified Academy

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Advanced Phonics

Fourth to Fifth Grade
Reviewing the /oa/, /ee/
/ay/, /i_e/ & /er/ Sounds

Switch It ~ Split & Write It
Review the Advanced Code Sounds

Switch It word list: bank* brank* brant drant drint drunt prunt print plint splint
(real word)

spron

splind spling splung sprung (real word) spreng spren

Directions: Play the game as you have done previously, using nonsense words;
be ready for the challenge of pronouncing the words! Assume that the vowel sounds are the “short”
sounds: /ă/, /ĕ/, /ĭ/, /ŏ/, or /ŭ/.

Letter-Sound Cards: a e i o u b d g k l n p r s t ng

* The letter “n” in these
words is actually the
/ng/ sound.

Split & Write It
Directions: Support your student’s reading of the following multi-syllable words. Then ask him to
split the word into chunks with a slash mark, as in the example below. Finally, have him write each
word by chunks as he says each word by chunks. (Not all lines below will be needed.)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

emphasize
Apollo
triumph
deliberate
evaluate
mainland
volunteer
govern mental
tomatoes
treaty

pha

size

Review the Advanced Code Sounds

“You have learned so many challenging spellings already for so many different sounds. What an amazing
mind you have! Let’s try to review the sounds and see how many of their spellings you can remember.”
“On the left are pictures to help remind you about each sound. Try to write as much of the key sentence as
you can; I’ll help you.”

/oa/

/ee/

/ay/

(answers on following page)

continued…

3
Answers:
Go home to show the boat to Joe.
As he dreams of cookies, he sees many of these.
They came to play with the eight great trains on the table.
I like to try to find the right pie.
Her first nurse works early for a dollar.

/er/
/i_e/

Review

1) Read this poem to see what it can teach you
about the months.
2) Circle the spellings for the sounds you have
learned recently.

3) [BONUS] Can you memorize this poem to help you
remember this key information? You may want
to write it on the back of this paper to help your
memorization process.

Thirty Days
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;

All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
Which has twenty-eight in line,
Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine.
© 2016 Reading Simplified

Review

Try to imagine what the poet is describing in “Winter Night.” Can you picture it? Afterwards,
explain where each creature is. Would you enjoy creating a rhyme to describe a cold night?
Finally, use 3 different colored pencils to circle 3 different sounds: /oa/, /er/, & /i_e/.

Winter Night
by Mary F. Butts

Blow, wind, blow!
Drift the flying snow!
Send it twirling, whirling overhead!
There’s a bedroom in a tree
Where, snug as snug can be,
The squirrel nests in his cozy bed.
Shriek1, wind, shriek!
Make the branches creak!
Battle with the boughs2 till break o’ day!
In a snow-cave warm and tight,
Through the icy winter night
The rabbit sleeps the peaceful hours away.
1

to scream with terror or excitement
“ough” = /ow/; like a tree bough, or limb

continued…

Call, wind, call!
In entry and in hall!
Straight3 from off the mountain white and wild!
Soft purrs the pussy-cat,
On her little fluffy mat,
And beside her nestles4 close her furry child.
Scold, wind, scold!
So bitter and so bold!
Shake the windows with your tap, tap, tap!
With half-shut dreamy eyes
The drowsy5 baby lies
Cuddled closely in his mother’s lap.

“aigh” = /ay/ but is not very common
to cuddle or snuggle
5
sleepy
4