Book 2 • Week 15 • Level C • Student Practice Sheet

BOOK 2 • WEEK 15 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery

LEVEL C • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET

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Level: C

1 Orthographic Handwriting Practice: Read each word aloud, observe the <ei> and <eigh> patterns, and write it cleanly twice.

<eigh> & Exceptions (Words 1–5)

1 eight

2 weight

3 height

4 neigh•bor

5 lei•sure

<ei> after <c> & Pairs (Words 6–10)

6 ei•ther

7 nei•ther

8 de•ceive

9 re•ceive

10 re•ceipt

Roots & Exceptions (Words 11–15)

11 seize

12 weird

13 for•eign

14 rhy•thm

15 gram•mar

2 Orthographic Sorting: Classify the 15 words according to their spelling rules and exception patterns.

Spelled with <eigh> (4 words)

<ei> after <c> (3 words)

<ei> Exceptions (5 words)

Roots & <rh> (3 words)

3 Homophone Distinctions: Distinguish between ate and eight in context.

Pair: eight (the number 8) • ate (past tense of eat)

a. Our friendly neighbor brought over fresh warm peach muffins.

b. The hungry hikers lunch at leisure under the cool shade of the oak tree.

📚 Rules to Remember • Week 15

Rule 1 • <eigh> Says /ā/ or /ī/

eigh says /ā/ as in eight, weight, neighbor; uniquely says /ī/ in height.

Rule 2 • <ei> after <c>

Use ei after c to spell /ē/ (deceive, receive, receipt).

Rule 3 • <ei> Exceptions Saying /ē/

Exceptions to memorize: either, neither, leisure, seize, weird.

Rule 4 • Greek <rh> in <rhythm>

Words of Greek origin use rh for the /r/ sound (rhythm; note that y acts as the vowel).