Wheeler's Elementary Speller | Lessons 134 & 135
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Christmas Eve Memory Lyric • Consonant Doubling Law • Unmarked “ch” (/tʃ/)
Wheeler Page 72 • 26px Baseline Standard
1. Lesson 134: Memory Lesson • Copy Carefully & Recite from Memory 6 Lines of Poetry • Wheeler Standard
“Oh, it's Christmas Eve, and moonlight, and the Christmas air is chill,
And the frosty Christmas holly shines and sparkles on the hill,
And the Christmas sleigh-bells jingle, and the Christmas laughter rings,
As the last stray shoppers hurry, taking home the Christmas things;
And up yonder in the attic there's a little trundle bed
Where Christmas dreams are dancing through a sleepy, curly head.”
Copy the 6 poetic lines on the standard 26px lines below: Standard 26px Baseline • 13px Dashed Midline
Wheeler's Orthographic Inquiry: “Why are there two p's in shoppers and only one in sleepy?”
shop + -er → shoppers Double ‘p’
Base shop ends in 1 short vowel + 1 consonant (/ɒp/). Double the p before vowel suffix -er to keep the vowel short.
sleep + -y → sleepy Single ‘p’
Base sleep has a long vowel digraph (ee = /iː/). Long vowels never double the following consonant before suffixes!
Compose the doubling rule in your own words:
2. Lesson 135: The Sound of Unmarked “ch” as in “chair” (/tʃ/) 12 Words • Spell Orally & Write from Dictation
Exceptions & -nch
such
much
lunch
Trigraph -tch & ch-
notch
blotch
check
Initial ch- & Dual ch
chance
church
chimney
R-Controlled & Long i
torch
scorch
chime
Write two dictated sentences using “church” and “torch”:
Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lessons 134 & 135 RF.2.3 • Orthoepy • Morphophonology • Penmanship Zero Bottom Void Architecture • Page 1 of 2