Two-syllable words with long a syllables · Vowel spellings au and aw · Sentences with au and aw words
Grade 2 · Day 59 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 82, Lesson 83, Lesson 84 · p.91–92 · 25.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet
Read these · 40 words
pay
day
rail
way
air
plane
space
gage
wait
rain
slave
grate
plain
mail
man
chair
brace
tain
tail
gate
play
mate
railway
airplane
spaceship
away
engage
waitress
raining
enslave
grateful
explain
complain
mailman
chairman
ace
obtain
Maud
sauce
awe
◆ 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
- Paul saw Aunt Maud sitting on the lawn.
- The cat cut her paw.
- Paul drank his milk with a straw.
- The dawn came at six o'clock.
- Paul saw Aunt Maud sitting on the lawn.
- The cat cut her paw.
- Paul drank his milk with a straw.
- The dawn came at six o'clock.
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.