Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Four, Lesson Two: VCV Pattern

  1. flake
  2. bake
  3. mistake
  4. shaker
  5. quake
  6. fern
  7. spore
  8. frond
  9. rhyzome
  10. reproduce
  1. fiddlehead
  2. rhubarb
  3. transport
  4. shipping
  5. locomotive
  6. tunnel
  7. tressel
  8. railroad
  9. track
  10. engine
VCV Pattern

Often the VCV pattern involves an ending letter "e". In this case the letter e usually makes the vowel before the consonant a long vowel. Consider these examples with and without an ending e. 


	WITHOUT ENDING E			WITH ENDING E

	  tim					  time
	  cap					  cape
	  pan					  pane
	  grim					  grime
	  fin					  fine
	  war					  ware
But not all VCV words end with the letter e. Here are some VCV words which don't end with the letter e: 

	mica			strata			data

	copy			loto			gravy

	tornado			tomato			potato
You should notice that in each of these words in which the VCV letter pattern does not end with e, the VCV pattern gets split between two syllables. For instance, the word "fine" contains "ine" which matches the VCV pattern. The word "fine" is one syllable long. On the other hand, the word "mica" contains "ica", which matches the VCV pattern. The word "mica", is two syllables long.

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