Lesson 43: The -all, -oll, and -ull Patterns
STEP 1 — Phonemic Awareness  |  Part A — Blending
/b/ /aw/ /l/ → ball
/r/ /ō/ /l/ → roll
/p/ /ŭ/ /l/ → pull

STEP 1 — Phonemic Awareness  |  Part B — Segmenting
fall → /f/ /aw/ /l/
toll → /t/ /ō/ /l/
full → /f/ /ŭ/ /l/

STEP 3 — Auditory Drill  |  Answer
/ss/ (double s at end)  =  ss
/ll/ (double l at end) = ll
/a/ (short) = a

STEP 5 — Word Building
cliff
quill
sell
fuzz
cuff
miss

STEP 6 — New Concept 

• -all sounds like /ol/ (as in ball). The a sounds more like a short o or aw.
• -oll usually sounds like /ōl/ with a long o (as in toll), though a few exceptions sound like /ol/ (as in doll).
• -ull sounds like /ool/ (as in full or bull), but can sometimes keep its short u sound (as in gull or hull).

Today we are going to look at some special word teams. You already know that the letter L likes to make the /l/ sound. But when you put two Ls at the end of a short word, they form a team. Sometimes, they act a little bit bossy and change the sound of the vowel right before them! We call these glued sounds because they stick together.

Let’s look at a-l-l. If we read this with regular sounds, it would say /æ/-/l/. That sounds silly! When A is next to LL, it turns into a copycat and makes the short /o/ sound, like an octopus. Let's practice blending it: /ol/.

Now let's look at o-l-l. Usually, the LL forces the O to say its own name—the long /ō/ sound. It says /ōl/

Last one! When U is next to LL, it often sounds like the /oo/ sound you make when you push something heavy. It says /ool/.

STEP 10 — Dictated Sentence 
The ball fell in the tall grass.