Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lessons 119 & 120
Sound of
oi
in
oil
(/ɔɪ/) • Sound of
ow
in
how
(/aʊ/) • Carrie Shaw Rice • Page 65
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★ LESSONS 119 & 120 • THE DIPHTHONGS OI (/ɔɪ/) & OW (/aʊ/) • CARRIE SHAW RICE
24 Target Words • 26px Standard Lines
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Lesson 119: Sound of
oi
as in
oil
, unmarked (/ɔɪ/)
12 Words • -oil, -oin, -oint, -oice Families
-oil Family
/ɔɪl/
toil
/tɔɪl/
coil
/kɔɪl/
boil
/bɔɪl/
-oil Family
/ɔɪl/
soil
/sɔɪl/
spoil
/spɔɪl/
broil
/brɔɪl/
-oin • -oint
/ɔɪn/, /ɔɪnt/
join
/dʒɔɪn/
coin
/kɔɪn/
joint
/dʒɔɪnt/
-oint • -oice
soft c = /s/
point
/pɔɪnt/
voice
/vɔɪs/
choice
/tʃɔɪs/
2
Lesson 120: Sound of
ow
as in
how
, unmarked (/aʊ/)
12 Words • -ow, -owl, -own, -owd Families
-ow • -owl
/aʊ/, /aʊl/
how
/haʊ/
howl
/haʊl/
scowl
/skaʊl/
-own Family
/aʊn/
town
/taʊn/
down
/daʊn/
brown
/braʊn/
-own • -owd
/aʊn/, /aʊd/
frown
/fraʊn/
crown
/kraʊn/
crowd
/kraʊd/
-ow • -own
/aʊ/, /aʊn/
brow
/braʊ/
plow
/plaʊ/
drown
/draʊn/
3
Carrie Shaw Rice's Nature Couplet • Diphthong Rhyme:
Town / down
Poetic Dictation • 26px Standard Lines
“Oh, were you ever in
Drowsy Town
,
Just when the dusk was dropping
down
?”
— Carrie Shaw Rice
Listen to Couplet
Transcribe the couplet carefully, observing the capitalization of
Drowsy Town
and the question mark:
Standard 26px Baseline • 13px Dashed Midline
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Contextual Sentence Synthesis • Contrast Diphthongs
oi
and
ow
Application • 26px Standard Lines
Complete each sentence with a word from Lesson 119 or 120 (
voice, soil, crowd, plow, choice, brown
), then copy below:
Precision Orthography
1. The farmer will ____________________ the rich black ____________________ with sturdy oxen.
2. A gentle and kind ____________________ spoke peace to the noisy ____________________ in the street.