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Grade 1 · Day 111 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 124, Lesson 125 · p.130–131 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 33 words

knight

thumb

hour

ghost

rhyme

honor

ghastly

rhymed

honest

ghetto

rhyming

heir

write

writer

writing

written

wrote

wrist

wrap

wretch

wrath

wretched

wreck

wreath

wrought

wrestle

wrestled

wrestler

wrestling

wrinkle

wrong

wrung

wry

◆ 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

knight

thumb

hour

ghost

rhyme

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.