Keep Quiet Letters: Notes and Movement

Use the sentence and the complete spelling to repair a missing letter.

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Practice 1: cord and craft

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Some familiar spellings keep a letter we do not hear separately: k in knee, w in write and b in climb. Read the meaning clue before choosing a repair. Keep the other letters too; adding a quiet letter does not mean doubling a different letter. Check unfamiliar words with a dictionary or a trusted adult. A spelling pattern does not tell us how every matching letter group sounds.

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Draft: Please rite a note. Repair: write. The sentence means put words on a page, so write is the useful spelling here. Keep its w. In water, however, w is heard; the first letter is not always quiet.

Knee, write and climb appear on separate cards. An underline marks the k, w and b that remain in the written words without separate sounds. — Compare a complete spelling with the meaning of its sentence.

Would you believe it?

Knot and not can sound alike but mean different things. A quiet written letter can help you tell a tied cord from a word that says no. Meaning and spelling work together.

Question 1 A draft says, "That answer is rong, not correct." Which spelling repairs the draft? wronng rong wrong

Question 2 A draft says, "Yesterday I new the answer." Choose the spelling for already knowing something in the past. knew new kneww

Question 3 In a story, a character says, "My foot feels num, with little feeling." Which standard spelling completes that description? num numb numm

Question 4 A dance note says, "Riggle your fingers with small twisting movements." Which spelling repairs the action word? riggle wrigle wriggle

Question 5 K is quiet in knee but heard in kite. Which advice is useful? Delete k at the start of every word. Learn the whole spelling instead of deleting every k. Add k before every n in every word.

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