BOOK 2 • WEEK 13 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery
LEVEL A • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET
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Level: A
Week 13 • Level A Spelling List
Focus: /ar/ Spelled <ar> • /or/ Spelled <ar> after <w> • Soft <g> • [Deb] /ah/ & /er/ Alternate Rules
15 Words + Homophones
1 Orthographic Handwriting Practice: Read each word aloud, trace its phonic pattern, and write it cleanly twice.
Core /ar/ Words (Words 1–5)
1 car
2 far
3 dark
4 hard
5 arm
w-Control & Soft <g> (Words 6–11)
6 warm
7 war
8 art
9 part
10 start
11 large
[Deb] Debt Rule Words (Words 12–15)
12 talk
13 walk
14 want
15 her
H wok
2 Phonics & Rule Sorting: Sort all words from today's list into their exact phonics category below.
/ar/ Spelled <ar> (8 words)
1.
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8.
/or/ after <w> • Soft <g> (3 words)
1.
2.
3.
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[Deb] /ah/ after <w> / <al> (3 words)
1.
2.
3.
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[Deb] /er/ & Homophone (2 words)
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2.
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3 Homophone Distinctions: Choose the correct homophone (walk or wok) to complete each sentence.
Pair: walk (to travel on foot) • wok (a round-bottomed cooking pan)
a. Chef Lee tossed fresh vegetables quickly in a hot, round steel .
b. Every evening after dinner, my family likes to take a peaceful through the park.
📚 Rules to Remember • Week 13
Rule 1 • /ar/ Spelled <ar>
The phonogram ar says /ar/ as in car, far, dark, hard, arm, art, part, start.
Rule 2 & 3 • <w> Changes Vowel Sounds
w can change the sound of following vowels: ar says /or/ after w (warm, war).
Rule 4 • Soft <g> with Silent-e (Job 3)
Silent-e makes c and g say their soft sounds /s/ and /j/ (large).
[Deb] Rule 5, 6, 7 • Debt Rules
[Deb] /ah/ spelled a after w or before l (talk, walk, want); /er/ in 1-syllable word only in her, per.