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Grade K · Day 118 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 73 · p.82–84 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 40 words

Abe
ace
babe
face
lace
pace
race
brace
grace
place
space
trace
ade
fade
made
wade
blade
glade
grade
shade
spade
trade
safe
age
cage
page
rage
sage
wage
stage
bake
ale
came
cane
ape
cake
bale
dame
Dane
cape

◆ 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

Abe
ace
babe
face
lace

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.