Sunday, April 17, 2011

Spelling for the week of April 18, 2011

 This week's spelling words are diphthongs. Categories for sorting are are oi, ou, oy, and ow (if students practice with the challenge words).Two vowels next to each other can make a gliding sound, such as oi in oil. W and y are considered vowels in some cases, such as in the letter combinations (diphthongs) ow and oy.

oil, enjoy, point, about, destroy, count, join, cloud, coin, joyful, out, cowboy

Additional challenge words include:
spoil, boil, foil, our, around, boy, joy, toy, brown, crown, crowd, broil, choice, joint, noise, aloud, appoint, avoid, disappoint, amount, cloudy, doubt, allow, scowl