aim
nail
braid
stain
unfair

arm
cart
scarf
garlic
harvest

aunt
haul
haunt
vault
August

caught
taught
naught
laugh

paw
draw
yawn
straw
sawdust

way
clay
spray
crayon
holiday

build
built
building*
builder*
buy*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonograms ng and er and the spelling rule: When a one-syllable word ends in a single vowel Y, it always says /ī/.

deceit*
ceiling*
deceive*
perceive*
receive*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonograms ng and er, the second sounds of c and e, and the spelling rules:

• A E O U usually say their long sounds at the end of the syllable.
• Any vowel may say one of the schwa sounds, /ǔ/ or /ǐ/, in an unstressed syllable or unstressed word.
• Silent final E rule: English words do not end in V or U.

chat
tech
chef
inch
crunch
chemist

official*
artificial*
sufficient*
suspicion*
clinician*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonogram ar and the spelling rules:

• Any vowel may say one the schwa sounds, /ǔ/ or /ǐ/, in an unstressed syllable or unstressed word.
• I and Y may say /ǐ/ or /ī/ at the end of a syllable.

lock
trick
struck
unpack
padlock

badge
wedge
fridge
pledge
smidge

leaf
break
clear
sweatpants
dream
headset
scream

earn
heard
pearl
unlearn
search*

*To read this word students will need to know the phonogram ch.

acted
mixed
camped
gifted
rusted
filmed

deep
sweet
street
unseen
sixteen

rein
vein
weird
feint
*feisty

*To read this word students will need to know the spelling rule: Y says /ē/ only in an unstressed syllable at the end of a multi-syllable word.

weight
freight
eight
sleigh
height

fern
clerk
never
silver
dumpster

buses
elves
olives
flexes
blesses

few
blew
stew
strewn
mildew

grey
key
prey
valley
donkey

gnat
sign*
resign*
design*
campaign*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonogram ai, the second sounds of e and s, and
the spelling rules:

• I and O may say /ī/ and /ō/ when followed by two consonants.
• A E O U usually say their long sounds at the end of the syllable.
• Any vowel may say one of the schwa sounds, /ŭ/ or /ĭ/, in an unstressed syllable or unstressed
  word.

guilt
guild
disguise*
guitar*
language*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonogram ar, the second sounds of s, i, and g,
and the spelling rules:

• The vowel says its long sound because of the E.
• I and Y may say /ĭ/ or /ī/ at the end of a syllable.
• Any vowel may say one of the schwa sounds, /ŭ/ or /ĭ/, in an unstressed syllable or unstressed
  word.

field
pier
yield
brief
grief

high
fight
might
flight
insight

bird
dirt
twirl
stir
squirt

knit
knob
knot
knee*

*To read this word students will need to know the phonogram ee.

sang
spring
swung
asking
ending

foam
loaf
coast
cloak
upload

doe
foe
toe
aloe
shoe*

*To read this word students will need to know the phonogram sh.

boil
joint
point
uncoil
tinfoil

mood
stood
floor
raccoon
boost
unhook
door

corn
fort
stork
uncork
inform

outlet
toucan
your
outfit
snout
court
coupon
touch*
could*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonogram ch and silent l.

bought
dough
rough
sought
bough
through*
cough

*To read this word students will need to know the phonogram th.

gown
grow
howl
crowd
elbow
minnow

boy
joy
soy
enjoy
employ

phonics
physics*
phone*
photo*
pharmacist*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonogram ar, the second sounds of y, s, o, and
c, and the spelling rules:

• A E O U usually say their long sounds at the end of the syllable.
• The vowel says its long sound because of the E.
• C always softens to /s/ when followed by E, I, or Y. Otherwise, C says /k/.
• Any vowel may say one of the schwa sounds, /ŭ/ or /ĭ/, in an unstressed syllable or unstressed
  word.

cash
brush
shrunk
finish
lavish

tension*
expansion*
vision*
mansion*
controversial*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonogram er and the spelling rules:

• Any vowel may say one of the schwa sounds, /ŭ/ or /ĭ/, in an unstressed syllable or unstressed
  word.
• I and Y may say /ĭ/ or /ī/ at the end of a syllable.

patch
crutch
splotch
unlatch
dispatch

this
path
thin
fifth
them
that

action*
partial*
condition*
invention*
fraction*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonogram ar and the spelling rules:

• Any vowel may say one of the schwa sounds, /ŭ/ or /ĭ/, in an unstressed syllable or unstressed
  word.
• I and Y may say /ĭ/ or /ī/ at the end of a syllable.

ruin
fruit
swimsuit
wet suit
cruise*

*To read this word students will need to know the second sound of the phonogram s and the spelling rule: Add an E to keep singular words that end in the letter S from looking plural.

blur
burn
curl
surf
blurb

when
whim
whit
whomp
whisk

worm
word
world
worsen
workbag

wrap
wren
wrist
wreath*
wrench*

*To read these words students will need to know the phonograms ea, th, and ch.