📚 Wheeler's Speller • Lesson 47 (Marking Letter G in Literature)
BOOK 1 • WHEELER'S SPELLER Primary Phonics Curriculum • Lesson 47
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LESSON 47 • MARKING LETTER G IN LITERATURE
Original Page 29 • Classic Authors
Phonological Discovery: Giving each g its proper mark in literary contexts: Hard g (ḡ) vs. Soft g (ġ).
DIACRITICS • ḡ VS ġ
Hard g as in get, grass (marked with a bar): ḡ.
Soft g as in gem, hedge (marked with a dot): ġ.
1 Copy each line, marking each g (ḡ or ġ).
📖 NATURE OBSERVATION
“At the foot of the wall grew long grass and gay flowers.”
— CHARLES KINGSLEY
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🌊 CLASSIC POETRY
“The river glides by grove and glen,
 Dark woodlands and the homes of men.”
— EDNA DEAN PROCTOR
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🌼 FAIRY TALE • THE DAISY
“Near the hedge, in the soft green grass, grew a little daisy.”
— HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
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2 Sort and write each word with g, marking each g (ḡ or ġ).
Word Bank: grew grass gay glides grove glen hedge green
Hard g (ḡ)
Soft g (ġ)
3 Answer these questions.
a. Which word from the literature selections has soft g (ġ)? Word:
b. In that word, what consonant comes immediately before g? Letter:
c. In grew, grass, glides, grove, glen, green, does g have a hard or soft sound? Sound:
📚 Rules to Remember • Lesson 47
Rule 1 • Hard G Before Consonants
When g is followed by l or r (glides, glen, grass, grew, green), it always says hard /ɡ/ (marked ḡ).
Rule 2 • Soft G in -DGE
In hedge, the trigraph -dge follows a short vowel to say soft /dʒ/ (marked ġ). The letter d protects the short vowel.
Rule 3 • Literature Application
Classic authors use vivid language. Identifying sounds and marking letters helps us read poetry with clear pronunciation.
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