Hi, families! Thank you for visiting our classroom reading page. We are working hard to grow as readers each and every day. Fun with Fundations Films: Room 203 Productions Trick Words Can't Trick Us! We don't just just write our spelling words...we sing our spelling words. We know that trick words can be difficult to spell. That's why we practice them using multi-sensory strategies. Here's a sneak peek of how we practice our words. In this film are performing again, please, and animal. We put the FUN in Fundations! Trick Words Can't Trick Us! from Rebecca Wertheim on Vimeo. Mark My Words: Closed Syllables! A closed syllable is a syllable that has a short vowel followed by one or more consonants. "Scoop the syllable from beginning to end, mark it with a 'c', give the vowel a breve, to show it's short, to show it's short!" Mark My Words: Closed Syllables from Becca Wertheim on Vimeo. Mark My Words: Closed Syllable Exceptions! Closed Syllable Exceptions are closed syllables that don't follow the Closed Syllable rule. Instead of having a short vowel closed in by consonant(s), they have a long vowel! The five closed syllable exceptions are glued sounds: ild, ind, olt, ost, old. Take a peek at how we mark closed syllable exceptions: Mark My Words: Closed Syllable Exceptions from Becca Wertheim on Vimeo. Mark My Words: Base Words and Suffixes Mark My Words: Base Words and Suffixes from Becca Wertheim on Vimeo. Mark My Words: Step-By-Step Video Tutorials for FUNdations Marking Marking Closed Syllables Marking Closed Syllable Exceptions Marking Words With Suffixes Marking Multisyllabic Words Marking Vowel-Consonant-E (v-e) Syllables Write with Wertheim: Follow Along Lesson for Writing and Marking Words