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Grade K · Day 117 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 72 · p.81 · 25.0 min · continued · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 32 words

at
ate
hat
hate
fat
fate
mat
mate
rat
rate
Al
ale
pal
pale
Sal
sale
gal
gale
fad
fade
mad
made
man
mane
Jan
Jane
van
vane
cap
cape
gap
gape

◆ 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

at
ate
hat
hate
fat

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.