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LESSON PLAN
for Lesson 30
Consonant Yy

Materials
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teaching materials

To view the teaching materials, click on "Lesson plan and teaching materials." Then scroll to the end of the lesson to find the following materials:

  • Yy sound/symbol card
  • Yy letter cards
  • Teacher decodable word cards
  • Student decodable word cards
  • High-frequency word cards
  • Bingo cards
  • Phonemic awareness worksheet
  • Phonics worksheet
  • Practice sheet
  • Workmat

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Yuri's Yams

Yum, Yum Yams
• Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 139
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Background

The letter y is used as a consonant less than 5 percent of the time. When it is a consonant, it usually appears at the front of a word or syllable as it does in yellow, yam, and beyond. A vast majority of the times when y appears in a word, it is a vowel. When it is a vowel, it can be the long /i/ vowel sound as in fly, the long /e/ vowel sound as in lady, and the short /i/ vowel sound as in nymph. There are other spellings of the /y/ sound. Most common are j in the word hallelujah and double l in Spanish words such as tortilla.