Book 2 • Week 20 • Level B • Student Practice Sheet

BOOK 2 • WEEK 20 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery

LEVEL B • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET

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Level: B

1 Orthographic Handwriting Practice: Read each word aloud, observe ending <y> saying /ē/ and double consonants, and write it cleanly twice.

Base Words Ending in -y (Words 1–5)

1 bus•y

2 cit•y

3 sto•ry

4 en•em•y

5 hun•gry

Blends & Double -rr- (Words 6–10)

6 coun•try

7 luck•y

8 stur•dy

9 sor•ry

10 car•ry

Doubles, family, & beauty (Words 11–15)

11 hur•ry

12 hap•py

13 pret•ty

14 fam•il•y

15 beau•ty

2 Phonics & Rule Sorting: Group words by 2-syllable base words, doubled middle consonants, 3-syllable/French words, and consonant blends with -y.

2-Syllable Bases (4 words)

Double Consonants (5 words)

3 Syllables & <eau> (3 words)

Blends Before <-y> (3 words)

3 Homophone Distinctions: Choose the correct homophone (pail or pale) to complete each sentence.

Homophone Pair: pail (cylindrical bucket for liquids) • pale (dim, light in color)

a. The gardener filled a large metal with water for the drooping flowers.

b. After feeling dizzy from the summer heat, his cheeks turned surprisingly and cold.

c. Jack dropped the wooden of fresh water, and his face went entirely when it spilled.

📚 Rules to Remember • Week 20

Rule 1 • Unaccented Ending <y> Says /ē/

When letter y appears at the end of an unaccented multisyllabic word, it regularly says long /ē/ (bus•y, cit•y, sto•ry, fam•i•ly).

Rule 2 • Protect Short Vowels with Double Consonants

Double consonants protect the preceding short vowel sound before adding -y (sor•ry, car•ry, hur•ry, hap•py, pret•ty).

Rule 3 • Phonogram <eau> Says /yōō/

Borrowed from French, the vowel trigraph eau represents /yōō/ in beau•ty. /yōō/ is also spelled u, u-e, ew.

Rule 4 • Homophone Distinctions: <pail> vs. <pale>

Pail (bucket, spelled with vowel team ai) vs. pale (light in color, spelled with split vowel-e a_e).