AUDIO COMPANION: Lessons 94 & 95

Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Lessons 94 & 95

Care-Sound Poetry Hunt • Vowel Digraph ea = Short ĕ • Words Often Mispronounced
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LESSON 94: CARE-SOUND POETRY HUNT • PHOEBE CARY & LONGFELLOW
COPY CAREFULLY • UNDERSCORE WORDS WITH A IN CARE (â)
Phoebe Cary (1824–1871) Model 1 (Target: 3 Words)
Oft will a bird or butterfly dare To venture in through the window, bare, Which is opened wide for the summer air.
Copy carefully and underscore target words:
Henry W. Longfellow (1807–1882) Model 2 (Target: 2 Words)
Her hair made a glory in the air.
Copy line carefully:
Phonics Detective Check 4 Target Words
dare bare air hair
LESSON 95: VOWEL DIGRAPH EA = SHORT E ĕ
COPY CAREFULLY • WRITE FROM DICTATION
Rule of Orthoepy: The vowel digraph ea frequently has the short sound of e (ĕ), acoustic value /ε/ (as in bed, pet). Do not confuse with long ē in meat or tea.
Acoustic: /ε/
Family 1: -ead
head
bread
Family 2: -read
dread
thread
Family 3: -ealth
wealth
health
Family 4: -eaf / -eath
deaf
breath
WORDS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED • WHEELER 1901 ORTHOEPIC STANDARD
Pronounce with pure short ĕ (/ε/) • Copy Neatly
Vowel: /ε/
gĕt
yĕt
Monosyllables
yĕs
ĕlm
ea = /ε/
dĕaf
dĕafen
Compounds
clĕanly
instĕad
Exercise 4 • Application Practice: Write 3 original sentences using words from Lessons 94 & 95: Target: 3 Sentences
Line 1 (e.g., using bread, health, or wealth):
Line 2 (e.g., using thread, breath, or instead):
Line 3 (e.g., using elm, cleanly, or deafen):
Wheeler's Elementary Speller • Page 52 • Lessons 94 & 95 (Student Practice)
Phonetics: Caret A (â) Poetry • Digraph ea = ĕ • Strict 26px Handwriting Standard