Common irregular words; sentences

Grade K · Day 159 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 108 · p.115 · 25.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 33 words

to
do
too
two
who
you
youth
young
know
went
the
phone
Did
what
were
told
of
must
think
are
want
go
alone
is
high
big
Give
it
back
him
shall
man
sold

◆ 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

to
do
too
two
who

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.