PRIMARY SPELLING & PHONICS • GRADE 2–3 LITERATURE • RHYME STUDIO • ROBIN REDBREAST STUDENT WORKSHEET • PAGE 1 OF 2

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Classic Nature Poetry • Contextual Orthography • Rhyme Discovery

“How do the robins build their nests? / Robin Redbreast told me: / First a wisp of yellow hay / In a pretty round they lay; / Then some shreds of downy floss, / Feathers too, and bits of moss.”

Wheeler's Directives: 1. Copy the poem carefully. 2. Find 4 words in which o has the broad sound of o as in gone. 3. Find rhyming words for hay, flax, told, how, song, me.

1 Poetic Transcription & Penmanship Copywork

Transcribe the 6 lines of verse with rhythmic cadence, capital initials, and exact punctuation:

2 Broad Ô Phonic Detective Hunt

Identify the 4 words from the poem and lesson where o sounds as broad ô (as in gone). Write each with its circumflex:

1. Nest Fiber

2. Green Growth

3. Bird Music

4. Over To Other Side

3 Wheeler's Rhyme Studio • Family Generation

Write two true rhyming words for each Wheeler prompt word on the handwriting lines below:

hay: day • lay

told: cold • gold

song: long • strong

Wheeler's Orthography Rules • Rhyme & Poetry

1. 1. Phonetic Consistency: Floss and moss share the identical rime -oss, pairing broad ô with the doubled sibilant -ss.

2. 2. Compound Noun Formation: Robin Redbreast combines proper noun Robin with epithet Redbreast (compound formed from adjective red + noun breast).

3. 3. Irregular Past Forms: Observe irregular verbs in the poem: told (past of tell) and lay (transitive past of lay / put down).