Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lesson 123 & 123 Continued
Multisyllabic Words • Frank Dempster Sherman's “December” • Page 67
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★ LESSON 123 • MULTISYLLABIC WORD STUDY • SHERMAN'S “DECEMBER”
Syllable Division • 26px Standard Lines
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Wheeler's Law:
“Make a list of the words of two or more syllables, and learn to spell them”
12 Target Multisyllabic Words
De•cem•ber
3 syllables • Proper Noun
mo•tion•less
3 syllables • -tion + -less
lib•er•ty
3 syllables • Abstract Noun
mar•ble
2 syllables • Consonant -le
whit•est
2 syllables • Superlative
sweet•est
2 syllables • Superlative
hid•den
2 syllables • Twin d split
bab•bling
2 syllables • Twin b split
mead•ow
2 syllables • ea = short ĕ
liq•uid
2 syllables • qu = /kw/
hol•ly
2 syllables • Twin l split
car•ols
2 syllables • Plural Noun
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Frank Dempster Sherman's Lyric • “December”
Winter Poetry • Listening & Oral Reading
“December's come, and with her brought / A world in whitest marble wrought;
The trees and fence and all the posts / Stand motionless and white as ghosts;
And all the paths we used to know / Are hidden in the drifts of snow.”
— Frank Dempster Sherman
Listen to Stanza
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Lesson 123 Continued • Dictation & Penmanship
Orthography • 26px Standard Lines
Transcribe from dictation:
“Now let the holly red be hung, and all the sweetest carols sung.”
Standard 26px Baseline • 13px Dashed Midline
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Contextual Sentence Synthesis • Apply Multisyllables
Application • 26px Standard Lines
Divide into syllables (e.g.
mar-ble
) and complete the sentence, then copy below:
Precision Orthography
1. The cold winter snow made the whole world look like pure white ____________________.
2. The children sang the sweetest ____________________ under the bright green ____________________ boughs.