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Grade K · Day 138 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 89 · p.98 · 25.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet
Read these · 40 words
Jean
dream
cream
tea
meal
peas
bread
peach
sea
east
beach
neat
clean
seat
near
rear
team
year
fleas
reach
Steak
great
break
read
Seal
Zeal
sweat
realm
threat
dealt
sweater
bear
pear
tear
wear
swear
dead
head
lead
breath
◆ 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
- Jean had a dream.
- She put cream in her tea.
- Then she ate a peach.
- The peach was sweet.
- Bill is at sea.
- The sea is in the east.
- The beach is neat and clean.
- Jean sat in her seat.
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.