Initial consonant blends dr, dw

Grade 1 · Day 67 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 60 · p.73 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 13 words

drank
drift
drop
draft
drill
drag
drink
drug
dress
drip
drum
dwell
dwelt

◆ 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.

Write what you hear

drank
drift
drop
draft
drill

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.