Book 2 • Week 14 • Level B • Student Practice Sheet

BOOK 2 • WEEK 14 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery

LEVEL B • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET

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Level: B

1 Orthographic Handwriting Practice: Read each word aloud, identify the vowel digraph, and write it cleanly twice.

Short /ĕ/ <ea> (Base) (Words 1–5)

1 head

2 bread

3 dead

4 death

5 in•stead

Multi-Syllable /ĕ/ <ea> (Words 6–9)

6 wea•ther

7 mea•sure

8 heav•y

9 pleas•ant

• /zh/ in measure

/er/ Spelled <ear> (Words 10–15)

10 search

11 heard

12 ear•ly

13 earth

14 learn

15 learned

2 Phonics & Rule Sorting: Sort the spelling words into their phonogram categories below.

Short /ĕ/ <ea> (1-Syll) (5 words)

Short /ĕ/ <ea> (Multi) (4 words)

/er/ Spelled <ear> (6 words)

/zh/ • Final <-y> (3 words)

3 Homophone Distinctions: Choose the correct homophone pair to complete each context sentence.

Pairs: weather / whether • heard / herd

a. We checked the morning forecast to decide the rainy would cancel our trip.

b. The cowboy the loud rumbling hooves of the galloping cattle .

📚 Rules to Remember • Week 14

Rule 1 & 2 • Short /ĕ/ Spelled <ea>

ea frequently says short /ĕ/ (head, bread, dead, death, weather, measure, heavy, pleasant).

Rule 3 • /zh/ Spelled <su>

In measure, su represents the voiced postalveolar fricative /zh/ before unaccented -ure.

Rule 4 & 5 • /er/ Spelled <ear>

The phonogram ear says /er/ as in search, heard, early, earth, learn, learned.

Rule 6 • Final <-y> Says /ē/

Unaccented final -y says long /ē/ in multi-syllable words (heav•y, ear•ly).