PRIMARY SPELLING & PHONICS • CURRICULUM ARCHITECTURE TEACHER MASTER KEY INSTRUCTOR REFERENCE • PAGE 2 OF 2

Target Word	Diacritic & Sound	Morphology & Rule	Homophone Partner
care	câre • /kɛər/	Base verb/noun • Drops -e: caring, cared	None
dare	dâre • /dɛər/	Old English dearr • Drops -e: daring	None
fare	fâre • /fɛər/	Noun: price of passage / Verb: to journey	fair (just / light)
hare	hâre • /hɛər/	Noun: leaping wild animal like a rabbit	hair (on head)
pare	pâre • /pɛər/	Verb: to peel or trim thin outer layer	pair / pear
rare	râre • /rɛər/	Adjective: uncommon or lightly cooked	None
share	shâre • /ʃɛər/	Digraph sh- + caret r; drops -e: sharing	None
chair	châir • /tʃɛər/	Digraph ch- + vowel team before r	None

Complete Answer Key & Solutions WHEELER'S EXERCISES

Exercise 1 (Matrix Copywork): All 12 words transcribed with caret diacritic (â) placed above the vowel.

Exercise 2 (Dropping E Rule):
• care + ing = caring
• dare + ing = daring
• share + ing = sharing
• stare + ing = staring

Exercise 3 (Homophone Discrimination):
1. hare (animal) • hair (coat/follicles).
2. fare (ticket price) • fair (equitable/just).

Teaching Note: Emphasize that adding -ing never keeps silent -e (never *careing).

Socratic Guiding Prompts & Pedagogical Insights INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

Say 'cat', 'cake', and 'care'. How does the sound of 'a' change in each word?
When we write 'caring', what happened to the silent letter 'e' at the end of 'care'?
How do we know whether to write 'hare' or 'hair' in a sentence?

Dictation & Oral Application Sentences (Read slowly at normal speaking pace):

1. Take gentle care lest the timid hare fall into the hunter's snare.

2. Please pull up a wooden chair and take your fair share of the ripe fruit.

3. The daring sailor had to stare into the fierce storm without a word.

4. The streetcar fare was five cents on a bright and fair summer afternoon.