We diagram words to look for letter and syllable patterns, label long and short vowel sounds, and individual letter sounds. / Julia Knarr, The Soulard School.

Once you've learned a few common letter patterns, you'll vastly improve your spelling, writing and reading.

Teaching in Room 9 Decoding Using Spelling Patterns 2 | Letters and Sounds Special | 29m 15s | CC In this lesson, Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses anchor charts and whole ...

Now working on her 14th alphabet quilt, each containing every letter from A to Z, Stone of Overland Park, Kan., has so many ideas for others that she intends to design a series of 26 such patterns.

Cause-and-effect statements may seem more true if the initial letters in the words are in alphabetical order because the human brain prefers patterns that follow familiar sequences.