LESSON 114 TEACHER GUIDE & ANSWER KEY
LESSON 114 • TEACHER MASTER KEY
Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Page 62
| Target Crop | Phonetic Spelling | Botanical Family | Spelling Note |
|---|
| wheat | /hwiːt/ or /wiːt/ | Grass family (grain) | Digraph wh- + digraph = long ē |
| lettuce | /lɛt-ɪs/ | Aster family (salad green) | Double -tt- + unaccented -uce = /ɪs/ |
| potatoes | /pə-tā-tōz/ | Nightshade family (tuber) | Singular potato + plural -es |
| rye | /raɪ/ | Grass family (cereal grain) | Terminal -ye = long ī (/aɪ/) |
Exercise 1 (Matrix Copywork): All 16 words transcribed with correct plural suffixes and vowel digraphs.
Exercise 2 (Exemplar Story):
“In autumn, the farmer harvested his golden wheat, yellow corn, and sweet oats. In the garden, mother pulled crisp carrots and gathered heads of green cabbage and fresh lettuce for dinner.”
Exercise 3 (Classification):
• Field Grains: wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley.
• Forage Grasses: clover, hay, straw.
• Garden Vegetables: potatoes, carrots, turnips, onions, cabbage, lettuce, beans, peas.
- How do we spell the plural of 'potato'? What two letters do we add?
- Look at 'wheat' and 'meat'. What vowel digraph makes the long 'e' sound in both?
- Say 'lettuce' aloud. What letter combination at the end makes the 'iss' sound?
Dictation & Oral Application Sentences (Read slowly at normal speaking pace):
1. The broad fields of wheat and barley turned golden in the summer heat.
2. Grandfather stored sacks of sweet oats and yellow corn in the dry granary.
3. Mother dug fresh potatoes and pulled crisp carrots from the garden soil.
4. Sweet red clover and timothy hay were stacked high in the big wooden barn.
Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lesson 114 • Teacher Master Key
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