BOOK 1 • WHEELER'S SPELLER
PRIMARY PHONICS CURRICULUM • LESSON 54
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LESSON 54 • LITERATURE & VOWEL DIGRAPH
āi
(/eɪ/)
Original Page 32 • Margaret E. Sangster
“Raise your tuneful voices high
To our Father in the sky —
For the flowers and for the wheat,
For the cold and for the heat,
For the fruit and for the grain,
For the sunshine and the rain.”
— Margaret E. Sangster
Recite
1
In the poem above, find and copy all words in which
āi
spells long ā:
2
Make a list of words of four or five letters each from the poem and learn to spell them:
Four-Letter Words
Five-Letter Words
3
Picture Study:
A Feather in Her Cap
(John Morgan). Write two complete sentences telling what you see:
Observe the grandmother knitting and the happy child placing a feather in her cap. Use clear handwriting.
📖 RULES TO REMEMBER • LESSON 54
Rule 1 • Digraph
āi
When
a
and
i
stand together, they usually spell long
ā
(/eɪ/) as in
grain
and
rain
.
Rule 2 • Rhyming Endings
Words sharing the same phonogram rime (like
-ain
in
grain / rain
) belong to the same spelling family.
Rule 3 • Letter Counting
Carefully identify word length by counting root letters (e.g., 4-letter:
high, wheat, cold
; 5-letter:
raise, fruit
).