Lesson 58 - Literature & Cumulative Phonetic Review (Student Worksheet)

BOOK 1 • WHEELER'S SPELLER PRIMARY PHONICS CURRICULUM • LESSON 58 STUDENT PRACTICE WORKSHEET

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Stanza 1

When to the flowers so beautiful
The Father gave a name,
Back came a little blue-eyed one,
All timidly it came.

Stanza 2

And standing at the Father's feet
And gazing on his face,
It said, in meek and timid voice,
Yet with a gentle grace:

Stanza 3

“Dear Lord, the name Thou gavest me,
Alas! I have forgot.”
The Father kindly looked on her
And said, “Forget-me-not.”

In the poem above, find and copy words containing each target sound:

Short ă (/æ/)

Long ā (/eɪ/)

Soft ç (/s/)

Hard c̄ (/k/)

List words of four or five letters from the poem and learn to spell them:

Four-Letter Words (from Poem)

Five-Letter Words (from Poem)

Orthographic Discovery & Composition: Answer each question and write a sentence:

1. Which words in the poem have both long ā and soft ç?

2. Look at timidly. What 5-letter root word does it come from?

Creative Sentence: Write one sentence about the little blue flower:

📖 RULES TO REMEMBER • LESSON 58

Rule 1 • Vowel Sounds ă vs ā

Breve (ă) marks short a (Back, at, and). Macron (ā) marks long a (came, name, face).

Rule 2 • Soft ç vs Hard c̄

When c comes before e, i, y, it has the soft /s/ sound (face, voice, grace). Before other letters, it sounds like /k/ (came).

Rule 3 • Literary Word Study

Notice how timidly is formed by adding -ly to timid, and Forget-me-not is written with hyphens as a single compound name.