Sentences

Grade 1 · Day 40 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 26 · p.40 · 25.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 40 words

The
man
has
ten
cats
and
six
dogs
Jill
hens
jim's
pet
pig
big
Don
kisses
his
mom
pam's
cat
is
fat
Pat
pins
Jack
of
eggs
pots
pans
rex's
hat
red
dog
ran
with
foxes
val's
was
in
pen

◆ marks a word that does NOT follow today's pattern — Blumenfeld boxes these on the page. Teach it by heart; do not let the class sound it out and lose faith in the rule.

Read the sentences

Write what you hear

The
man
has
ten
cats

Say the word, have them repeat it, count the sounds on fingers, THEN write. The count is what stops a child writing the first letter and guessing the rest.