Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lessons 146 & 147

Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lessons 146 & 147 (Page 77)

Orthography • Poetic Memory Gems • Suffix Dropping Rule • Sound of o as in dove (ȯ = ŭ = /ʌ/)

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Lesson 146: Memory Lesson & Orthographic Inquiry

Amelia Welby • James Whitcomb Riley • Jean Ingelow

Amelia B. Welby • Twilight Wave

"For every wave with dimpled face
That leap'd upon the air,
Had caught a star in its embrace,
And held it trembling there!"

James Whitcomb Riley • The Brook-Song

"Little brook! Little brook!
You have such a happy look;
Such a very merry manner,
As you swerve and curve and crook."

Morphology Inquiry: What letter was dropped in forming trembling?

tremble − e + ing = trembling

Rule: Drop silent final -e before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel (-ing, -ed, -able).

Apply Rule: Write the participle for each verb:

swerve + ing =

curve + ing =

dance + ing =

write + ing =

Transcription • Jean Ingelow: "Far beyond (more sweet than all) Talked the trembling waterfall." Practice penmanship • 26px handwriting track

Lesson 147: Sound of o as in dove, marked ȯ = ŭ (/ʌ/)

16 Words • Webster ȯ • IPA /ʌ/

Write each word from dictation. Place the Webster dot (•) over the letter o to indicate the short ŭ sound (/ʌ/):

dȯve /dʌv/

Bird of peace; gentle creature

lȯve /lʌv/

Deep affection and kindness

nȯne /nʌn/

Not one; no person or thing

cȯme /kʌm/

To move toward or arrive

dȯes /dʌz/

Performs an action (he/she)

dȯne /dʌn/

Finished; fully completed

glȯve /ɡlʌv/

Warm covering for the hand

frȯnt /frʌnt/

The forward part or surface

mȯnth /mʌnθ/

One of 12 yearly cycles

tȯngue /tʌŋ/

Organ for speech and taste

hȯver /ˈhʌvər/

Hang fluttering in the air

cȯver /ˈkʌvər/

To place something over

hȯney /ˈhʌni/

Sweet food gathered by bees

mȯney /ˈmʌni/

Coins or banknotes for trade

ȯther /ˈʌðər/

Different; remaining person

mȯther /ˈmʌðər/

Female parent; loving carer

Section 3: Context Sentence Cloze & Original Composition

Syntax • Semantics • Penmanship

1. The gentle white flew back to its nest in the tree.

2. Bees gather sweet nectar to make golden for winter.

3. He put a warm woolen upon each cold hand.

4. A kind loves and guides her children each day.

Phonic Discovery Note:

In old manuscripts, scribes wrote the letter o instead of u next to letters like m, n, v so strokes wouldn't blur together! Thus love and come have the short ŭ sound.

Compose an original sentence using at least two words with ȯ (e.g., mother, love, honey, money, glove):