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Grade 1 · Day 86 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 87 · p.95 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 40 words

bee
deed
deem
deer
fleece
Dee
feed
meek
seem
Jeer
Greece
fee
heed
peek
teem
peer
gee
need
seek
geese
Lee
reed
week
teen
cheer
cheese
see
seed
cheek
keen
sneer
flee
weed
creek
seen
steer
peeve
free
bleed
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◆ 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

bee
deed
deem
deer
fleece

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.