Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lesson 116
Sound of o as in word (= û in fur) • Alice Cary Lyric • Page 64
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★ LESSON 116: SOUND OF O IN WORD (= Û IN FUR) • ALICE CARY POETRY
W-Controlled Vowel Shift (/wɜːr/) • 26px Standard Lines
1 Write from Dictation • Place the Proper Circumflex (^) Mark Over Each o
8 Target Words • Sound of û (/ɜːr/)
Wheeler's Law: "Sound of o as in word, = û as in fur. Write the following from dictation, and put the proper mark over each o." Notice how the preceding w shifts the vowel sound of o into the r-controlled sound /ɜːr/!
wôrd /wɜːrd/
Mark ô = sound of û
wôrld /wɜːrld/
Mark ô = sound of û
wôrth /wɜːrθ/
Mark ô = sound of û
wôrse /wɜːrs/
Mark ô = sound of û
wôrk /wɜːrk/
Mark ô = sound of û
wôrm /wɜːrm/
Mark ô = sound of û
wôrthy /ˈwɜːr.ði/
Mark ô = sound of û
wôrst /wɜːrst/
Mark ô = sound of û
2 Alice Cary's Poetic Lyric • The Cross-Vowel Acoustic Rhyme
Rhyme Discovery: words (/wɜːrdz/) • birds (/bɜːrdz/)
Acoustic Rhyme Discovery: Notice how words (spelled with o) and birds (spelled with i) rhyme perfectly! Both share the identical /ɜːrdz/ sound!
“I'll be a poet and paint with words
Talking children and chirping birds.”
— Alice Cary
3 Dictation & Penmanship: Transcribe Alice Cary's Lines with Precision
Contraction I'll • Capitalization • 26px Standard Lines
Transcribe the couplet carefully, observing the apostrophe in I'll and the rhyming pair: Standard 26px Baseline • 13px Dashed Midline
4 Contextual Sentence Synthesis • Apply Target Vocabulary
Application • 3 Sentences • 26px Standard Lines
Complete each sentence with a Lesson 116 word (work, world, worth, worse, worm), then copy below: Precision Orthography
1. The honest farmer does faithful ____________________ from dawn to dark.
2. A gentle and kind ____________________ brings joy to the whole ____________________.
3. A good deed done for others is ____________________ more than silver or gold.