Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lesson 121
Sound of
ou
in
out
, unmarked, =
ow
(/aʊ/) • Frank Dempster Sherman • Page 66
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★ LESSON 121 • SOUND OF OU IN OUT (= OW /aʊ/) • HOMOPHONES OUR / HOUR
Diphthong /aʊ/ • 26px Standard Lines
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Write from Dictation • Sound of
ou
as in
out
, unmarked (=
ow
)
12 Target Words • 4 Phonics Families
-out Family
/aʊt/
out
/aʊt/
shout
/ʃaʊt/
stout
/staʊt/
-our Family
/aʊ.ər/
our
/aʊər/
sour
/saʊər/
flour
/flaʊər/
-ound Family
/aʊnd/
sound
/saʊnd/
round
/raʊnd/
found
/faʊnd/
-oud Family
/aʊd/
loud
/laʊd/
cloud
/klaʊd/
proud
/praʊd/
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Frank Dempster Sherman's Nature Lyric • Diphthong Couplet:
sound / around
Poetic Dictation • 26px Standard Lines
“I listen, and I hear the
sound
Of music floating all
around
.”
— Frank Dempster Sherman
Listen to Couplet
Transcribe Sherman's lines with exact punctuation and rhyming precision:
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Homophone Clinic • Pronounced Alike:
our
vs.
hour
Silent H • Proverbial Wisdom • 26px Standard Lines
Wheeler's Homophone Rule:
our
(belonging to us) vs.
hour
(60 minutes, silent
h
)
Both Spoken /aʊər/
“Write from dictation, and supply the missing words (
our
or
hour
):”
“The darkest
hour
,
our
good friend says, is the
hour
before the dawning.”
Transcribe the complete proverb on the lines below:
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Contextual Sentence Synthesis • Apply Lesson 121 Vocabulary
Application • 26px Standard Lines
Complete each sentence with a word from Lesson 121 (
flour, proud, loud, sour, cloud, stout
), then copy below:
Precision Orthography
1. The baker used fine white ____________________ to bake good bread for our hungry friends.
2. A dark storm ____________________ gathered over the mountain with a ____________________ clap of thunder.