Value and the UE Vowel Digraph

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There’s more than one way to spell a long-U sound. Here’s a resource that gives students the opportunity to become familiar with reading and spelling <ue> words, zeroing in on the <value> word family.

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Description

Let’s look at the word family with <value> as the base and become familiar with other words containing the <ue> vowel digraph.

What you’ll use from this 40-slide <UE> PowerPoint resource:

  1. <UE> word sort by phoneme (sound) (/uː/ vs /ju/ as in due vs cue).
  2. Reading words from the <value> matrix.
  3. Spelling with <value> word sums both synthetic sums (putting the morphemes together: value + ed –> valued) and analytic sums (starting with the complete word and showing the morphemes: evaluate –> e + value + ate). Students write on paper or type into the text boxes.
  4. <UE> Vowel Digraph Reading Wipe Out Game.
  5. <UE> Spelling Connect 4 Game.
  6. Spelling dictation sentences (35 sentences with <ue> words).
  7. Instructions for each activity and how to use the  matrix and word sums, and an answer key in the instructions.

Reading and Spelling a word family helps students spell those specific words: value, values, valuable, valued, evaluate, evaluation, etc.

  • AND it helps them read and spell other words with a <ue> vowel digraph
  • AND when they run into this word family’s suffixes in other words, those suffixes are more familiar
  • AND that makes reading and spelling easier!

Happy Spelling!