Final consonant blends ct, ft, pt, xt; sentences

Read these · 19 words

◆ 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

• Bill got a raft as a gift.
• He left his raft at the pond.
• The raft is big.
• Can Bill lift the raft?
• The fact is that he can't.
• But Jack and Bill can lift the raft.
• Ann got a gift.
• Jan will get the next gift.

Write what you hear

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.