Book 2 • Week 9 • Level A • Student Practice Sheet

BOOK 2 • WEEK 9 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery

LEVEL A • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET

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1 Spelling Practice: Read each word aloud, notice how silent -e makes i say /aɪ/, and write twice.

-ime & -ine Rimes Words 1–5 (VCe)

1. time

2. nine

3. line

4. shine

5. nice

Soft <c> & VCe Words 6–10

6. price

7. life

8. quite

9. like

10. mile

-ile, -ide & -ize Words 11–15

11. smile

12. fire

13. wide

14. side

15. size

2 VCe & Soft Sound Sorting: Classify the 15 spelling words into the four orthographic categories below.

-ine & -ime Rimes (4 words)

Soft <c> (Job 3) (2 words)

-ile & -ide Rimes (4 words)

Other VCe Words (5 words)

3 Homophone Distinctions: Complete each context sentence with hire or higher.

Pair Distinctions: hire (employ for wages) • higher (more elevated)

a. The shop owner decided to two friendly helpers for the summer.

b. The golden eagle soared and higher into the cloudless sky.

📚 Rules to Remember • Week 9

Rule 1 • /ī/ VCe Pattern

Words with /ī/ spelled vowel-consonant-silent e (time, line, like, mile, side). Silent e makes the vowel long.

[Deb] Rule 2 • /ī/ Spellings

/ī/ can be spelled i, i-e, ie, igh, and y across various English word families.

Rule 3 • Silent E (Job 3)

Silent e causes c and g to say their soft sounds /s/ and /dʒ/ (nice, price).