m as mb; t as bt

Grade K · Day 179 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 123 · p.130 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 18 words

lamb
bomb
comb
bombed
combed
dumb
combing
numb
climb
plumber
crumb
climbed
plumbing
thumb
climbing
tomb
debt
doubt

◆ 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

lamb
bomb
comb
bombed
combed

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.