My Breakfast Reading Program

Sight Words

Vowel Rules

Syllabication Rules

A FREE supplemental reading program based on:
sight words, phonemic awareness,
synthetic phonics, analytic phonics, and syllabication
using concepts and principals of precision teaching and direct instruction.

Copyright 2003 - 2009 by Dick Briggs, All Rights Reserved
However, permission is granted to print and copy activities for school, tutoring programs and/or home use.

Contact Us: MyBreakfastReadingProgram@MSN.com
 


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Student Materials

Student Activity Center

This link provides interactive activities for many skills for each of 53 lessons.  The worksheets are also printable. 

Structured lessons and Create Your Own.

Uses TTS - Text To Speech. - Text to Speech.

Create Your Own


This link allows you to create materials for flashcards, phrases, sentences, stories and syllabication.

You can even use it to create math facts, and reading numbers and currency.

Uses TTS - Text To Speech. - Text to Speech.

 

 

Other FREE Sites

  Makes practicing for spelling tests fun
 


Online Dictionary

 

This link is to the original 53 lessons.

These activities are not interactive.

 

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Sight Words

Cold Cereal

Cold Cereal
Sight Words 

110
most frequent words

Hot Cereal

Hot Cereal
Irregular Rimes
10 % of
single syllable words -
treated as sight words

 

Vowel Rules
Pancakes

44% of
single syllable words
One Vowel
Short Vowel Rule		 Waffles

26% of
single syllable words

Two Vowels
Long Vowel Rule
Orange Juice
7% of
single syllable words

R Controlled Vowel Rule
 		 Fruit Toppings
13% of
single syllable words

Diphthong Vowel Rule
 

 

Most Common Rules for Dividing Words into Syllables

Concept          Diagram          Materials
 

Rule of Compound Words or Word Parts:  Grapefruit
If you see words or word parts within the word, cut the syllables to see the words or word parts.

Word Parts: Prefixes and Suffixes

Grapefruit

                Examples:
grapefruit      grape | fruit
untie                     un | tie
helpful               help | ful

Otherwise,
find the first vowel or vowel pair - then look at the next two letters -
apply the Rule of 1, Rule of 2 or Rule of le:

Repeat for multiple syllables
 
Rule of 1:  Donut
If there is only one consonant in the next two letters after the first vowel or vowel pair, cut the syllable in front of the consonant. 		Donut Example: 
donut     do | nut
Rule of 2:  Muffin
If there are two consonants in the next two letters after the first vowel or vowel pair, cut the syllable between the two consonants.		 Muffin Example: 
muffin     muf | fin

Rule of le:  Maple Syrup
Cut the syllable in front of the consonant before the le ending.

Syrup is sticky, so the leading consonant sticks to the le.

Maple Syrup

Example: 
maple     ma | ple

  

Materials Used for My Breakfast Reading Program

Overview of the Site

Student Materials

Coach's Materials
This section provides general information about the website and basic concepts and terminology.

Site Information:

Concepts:

What Is:

 

 This section is the core of the program.  It provides materials for 53 lessons.  The materials may be printed and copied for home and/or classroom use.

The student materials are designed for printing one activity on a page.  The design also allows the page to be displayed on the screen with minimal vertical scrolling (resolution of 1024 x 768). 

As the site evolves, many of the online pages will become interactive with audio and/or video.

Use this Lesson Activities link to directly access the 53 lessons.

The following links are EXAMPLES of the materials for specific skills from Lesson 1.  The format of the materials is consistent for all 53 lessons.

Sight Words:
Background:  Sight Words  Irregular Rimes Video

Phonemic Awareness:  Background 

Consonants, Blends, Digraphs:  Background    Video

Vowel Sounds:  Background:  Short  Long  R-Controlled Diphthong

Sound Blending:  Background

Vocabulary:  Background 

  • Worksheets #1 - #4 and/or stories

Fluency and Comprehension:  Background:  Fluency  Comprehension

 This section provides information and materials to prepare a person (teacher, teacher's assistant, parent, and/or peer student) to use the program.

Preparation:

Video Library and Demonstrations

Downloads:

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