Many Letters, Many Sounds

Read and spell words where letters change their sound (ch, gh, ou, ea), including words from other languages (chef, ballet, plaza).

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 1

Welcome to Spelling Springs! English borrowed words from around the world, so some letters have more than one sound. Look at the letters c h.
Those are three sounds from the same two letters. In chair they sound the usual way. In chorus they sound like a k. In chef they sound like s h.
The letters o u can sound three ways too, as in cloud, touch, and soup. If a word doesn't sound right, try another sound.
Borrowed words keep their old spelling. Ballet came from French, so its t is silent. Spaghetti came from Italian, and it has a silent h.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

5.F.P.4.a — Decode and encode words with graphemes that represent multiple letter-sound correspondences.