Long u as ew and eu; sentences
Grade 1 · Day 105 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 117 · p.124 · 25.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet
Read these · 23 words
new
news
Lew
stew
chew
grew
threw
drew
sew
dew
few
brew
View
mew
clew
knew
crew
screw
pew
flew
slew
feud
deuce
◆ 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
- June has a new dress.
- The news is good.
- Tell me the good news.
- Lew is having beef stew.
- Sue likes to chew gum.
- She grew an inch.
- Luke threw a stone.
- He threw it far.
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.