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61. Vowel Teams with gh: igh /ī/ and eigh /ā/

New Concept Words and Sentences: igh /ī/ and eigh /ā/

List 1
high slight
thigh weigh
bright sleigh
fright neigh
  1. I have a large dog who weighs eighty pounds.
  2. Can you put the dimmer on, so these lights won’t be so bright?

New Concept Words and Sentences: Homophones

beef beat choose chews peek peak
whole hole feet feat whale wail
eight ate blew blue right write
  1. You will need to relax if you expect to heal the scrape that is on your heel.
  2. If you’re interested in getting a new sailboat, you should check out the sale taking place at Baily’s.
  3. Alberta has quite a diverse landscape. We will get on a plane to go see the Alberta Plains, and then hop another plane to see Cypress Hills.

Review Words

unsightly gaudy
weighty barnacle
veined articulate
replying articulating
receive remained
cruise lawfully
frightful illegal
fruitful eject
reject dejected

What Says?

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

Spelling and Sentence Dictation

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

 

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Review

Vowel Teams

igh – light – /ī/

eigh – eight – /ā/

Homophones

Two words that sound (phone) the same (homo) but have different spellings and different meanings.
Examples: ate, eight; right, write; weight, wait

Practice

  1. Underline the vowel team in these words
    skein sleigh
    sleuth fruitful
    remained clause
    displaying avowing
    awful slightly
  2. Circle the suffix. Circle the prefix. Underline the Latin root. Scoop the syllables.
    replying deveined
    unsightly transported
    weightless distracted
    complaining interchangeable
  3. Add the suffix to make these words plural.
    catch________ nudge________
    crash________ choose________
    strain________ bandage________
    whine________ gauge________
    storm________ batch________
  4. Add the suffix for ‘happening now’.
    omit________ slur________
    save________ insure________
    repel________ replace________
    issue________
  5. Add the suffix for ‘comparing two’.
    large________ fit________
    wise________ close________
    warm________ slim________
    hard________ trim________
    late________ small________
  6. Match these homophones.
    _____ which a. gate
    _____ seam b. whine
    _____teem c. made
    _____wine d. hear
    _____maid e. witch
    _____tray f. lie
    _____lye g. pray
    _____gait h. seem
    _____prey i. team
    _____here j. trey

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