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Grade 3 Reading & Writing Β· World 1: Word Detective Agency Β· Level 2
One Spelling, Many Sounds
Ea (bead, bread), ow (cow, snow), ou (out, soup), oo (moon, book), ch (chin, chef, school), y (yes, gym, fly, happy): try one sound, then the other, and pick the real word.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 2
- Some letter teams make more than one sound. Look at e a. In bead, it says /β Δβ /. In bread, it says /β eβ /. In great, it says /β Δβ /!
- O w says /β Εβ / in snow, but it says ow in cow. O o can sound like moon or like book.
- C h says ch in chin. It says sh in chef, and /β kβ / in school.
- And y? It's a consonant in yes. It sounds like /β iβ / in gym, /β Δ«β / in fly, and /β Δβ / in happy.
- Here's the detective trick: when a word doesn't sound right, try the team's other sound. Does b-r-ead sound like a word with /β Δβ /? Breed? No! Try /β eβ /: bread. Yes!
- Your turn! Sort these words by the sound of o w.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.F.P.4.a β Decode and encode words with graphemes that represent multiple letter-sound correspondences.