📚 Wheeler's Speller • Lessons 78 & 79 • Broad A Sound & Digraphs au / aw
BOOK 1 • WHEELER'S SPELLER PRIMARY PHONICS CURRICULUM • LESSONS 78 & 79 STUDENT PRACTICE WORKSHEET
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LESSONS 78 & 79 • BROAD A & DIGRAPHS ạ • au • aw (/ɔː/)
Original Page 44 • Cary Sisters • Demosthenes
1 Lesson 78: Copy each poem couplet, and mark each a that has the broad sound (ạ):
“Leaning from the hedge-row wall,
Gave the rose her sweets to all.”
— Alice Cary
“Be thy labor great or small,
Do it well, or not at all.”
— Phoebe Cary
2 Lesson 79: Read, spell, and copy words with broad vowel digraphs au and aw (/ɔː/):
-aw Family
-awn Family
-aul / -ault
-ause / -aud
3 Literary Gems: Read each passage and copy Demosthenes' famous proverb below:
“To find fault is easy.”
— Demosthenes
“The dawn grew red beyond the sea
And sent abroad the day.”
— H. H. Boyesen
“Look! one lilac-bud I saw!
Icy hillsides feel the thaw.”
— Lucy Larcom
4 Creative Sentence: Write a sentence of your own using any two words from Lesson 79:
📖 RULES TO REMEMBER • LESSONS 78 & 79
Rule 1 • Broad Sound of a (ạ)
When a sounds like /ɔː/ as in wall, all, small, it is called the broad sound, marked with a subscript dot (ạ).
Rule 2 • Digraphs au and aw
Both au and aw spell the broad sound /ɔː/. au is usually in the middle (haul, fault); aw appears at the end (saw, draw) or before n/l.
Rule 3 • Classical Wisdom
Greek orator Demosthenes reminds us: “To find fault is easy” — true excellence lies in doing our labor well!
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