ies in verbs and plural nouns

Grade K · Day 144 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 95 · p.103 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 11 words

babies
berries
cities
puppies
pennies
lobbies
cherries
bunnies
candies
hurries
studies

◆ 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

babies
berries
cities
puppies
pennies

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.