Grapheme-Phoneme Chart for Project #1

Consonants

Symbol Examples (Basic spelling) Alternate Spellings

p peach, sponge, spiker, parade, happen, grasshoppers
published
b bread, breathtaking (bubble)
t aunt, spots, it, first, tree, till, fat, to, (shipped, shopped)
exciting, adventures, ticker, tape,
fantasy, tales, breathtaking, delight,
most, time, tempers, imagination,
just, write, story
d dwelling, heads, adventures, fashioned, published, centipede
cloudmen, parade, broad, old, and, (daddy)
good, delight
k spiker, think, remarkable, make, ticker, (chronicle)
sharks, york, breathtaking, kirkus
g something, going, single, stranger, high, delight, enough
greedy, big, again, bugs,
glowworms,grasshoppers, dwelling,
exciting, gruesome, breathtaking,
original, gem
m make, remarkable, them, James, (comb, climb, mommy)
something, time, me, glowworms,
enormous, cloudmen, gruesome,
imagery, measure, most, tempers,
imagination, may, become, gem
n aunt, in, sponge, can, think, stranger, knows
than, happen, again, new, long,
centipedes, enormous, cloudmen,
fantasy, been, enough, San,
Francisco, chronicle
ng // something, going, growing, dwelling,
exciting, breathtaking
f first, fat, family, for, fantasy, enough
fashioned, fairy, Fransisco
v ever, adventures (of)
s something, spiker, spots, first, single, centipedes, juicy, sharks, published,
as, sponge, is, James, knows, else, classic, francisco, city
stranger, this, soon, heads, tempers,
his, story
z is, this, James, spots, else, his, as,
centipedes, grasshoppers, ladybugs,
(zoo)
grasshoppers, enormous, heads,
adventures, sharks
h he, happen, high, house, his, (who)
grasshoppers, heads, here, has
sh // sharks, fashioned, published, measure
zh //

w growing, will, knows, with, dwelling, glowworms, gruesome

well,
y ladybugs, juicy, york, (usual)
l single, cloudmen, old, tales, delight, till, all, will, dwelling, well,
original, published, long, classic illustrations,
r spiker, first, growing, their, tree, write
remarkable, rich, glowworms,
grasshoppers, enormous, for,
adventures, sharks, ticker, parade,
york, broad, gruesome, imagery,
fairy, measure, original, story,
fransisco
ch /t/ peach, rich (vacation)
j /d/ James, juicy, sponge
th/ / bath something
th // bathe then, them, than, this, with, their, the,
that,

Vowels
Symbol Examples (basic spelling) Alternate Spellings
Short vowels

i /I/ bit something, is, going, it, in, single,

growing, till, big, will, rich, his,
dwelling, exciting, ticker,
published, imagination, classic,
this, fransisco, illustration
e // bet happen, then, them, centipedes, their, heads, measure, breathtaking
dwelling, exciting, adventures,
cloudmen, delight, been, tempers,
gem
a // bat happen, as, fat, can, that, family, Aunt
grasshoppers, adventures, fantasy,
fashioned, imagination, classic,
San, Fransisco
ah // father, hot spots, grasshoppers, long all, broad,
u // but but, ladybugs, published, just, sponge, gruesome, enough,
illustrations become
about, sofa a, remarkable, (out)
// book (looked) (would, should, could)
aw // dawn, (awesome) (got, forgotten)
long

Long vowels

a_e /ey/ cane a, make, James, ladybugs, tape, (they, hey)

parade, breathtaking, imagination,
may
ee /iy/ beet tree, greedy, think, peach, centipedes, fantasy,
i_e /ay/ bite spiker, high, delight, time, write, (eyes)
o_e /ow/ cone going, growing, knows,
glowworms, most,
/u/ boot (foot) gruesome
oy /y/ boy York,
ow /aw/ gown (frown) cloudmen
 r-colored vowels

ar far remarkable, sharks

r // fur (blurry) first
er fair their, spiker, tempers measure
ir fear

or for glowworms, enormous, york, story

ur poor

Spelling patterns:

1. Ending in y: greedy, family, juicy, city, imagery, fantasy,fairy, story

2. -gh/-ght: fight, high, delight, enough
3. VCE: house, make, tape, parade, gruesome, measure, time, write,
4. -ing: something, going, growing, exciting, dwelling, breathtaking

James and the Giant Peach

By Roald Dahl

Something is going to happen. Aunt Spiker spots it first: a peach growing high in their single
peach tree. Growing and growing till its as big as fat Aunt Sponge, and then as big as their
house! All greedy Sponge and Spiker can think is that the remarkable peach will make them rich.
But James knows.
With his new family of centipedes, ladybugs, glow worms and grasshoppers in his enormous
juicy dwelling, James heads for exciting adventures with Cloudmen, sharks, and a ticker tape
parade in New York City Here is a broad fantasy with all the gruesome imagery of old
fashioned fairy tales and a good measure of their breathtaking delight.
In the most original fantasy that has been published in a long time. tempers his imagination just
enough to write a story that may well become a classic. The story and the illustrations make
this a gem. San Francisco