Long i as I, y, ie, uy; sentences

Grade K · Day 147 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 98 · p.105 · 26.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 26 words

by
shy
my
sky
cry
sly
dry
spry
fly
spy
fry
sty
pry
try
why
die
buy
lie
guy
pie
tie
Terry
in
cherry
Connie
Timmy

◆ 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

Write what you hear

by
shy
my
sky
cry

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.