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Enabling Reading for Slow Learners

For Grade 3 and 4

Enabling Reading for Slow Learners. 1

Mastering the Alphabet 3

Enabling Reading

FOR SLOW LEARNERS

BY Nwufor Theresia N. (CAPIEMP)

02/20/2020


This publication is aimed at helpingthose pupils who after passing throughlevel one (primary 1&2) reach levels twoand three (Primary 3 – 6) without knowinghow to read a simple text. They can givecorrect answers to oral questions butcannot read the questions themselves.This makes them fail their exams notbecause they are dull. Some teachers alsohurriedly teach the alphabet withouttaking into consideration some basicprinciples. This class of pupils are merelyslow to understand and needs gradualguidance to the art of reading. This bookgives an answer to the difficulties facedby these pupils at all levels. Parents andteachers are advised to use this book fora better result in the performance of theSlow Learners.

BY Nwufor Theresia N. (CAPIEMP)

02/20/2020


ar ay aw au

ai air all ee

ey er ew ea

ear a-e i-e o-e

oo ow oy oi

ou oa ir ur

oe sh th wh

ch igh

Star rays

snail

saucelawn

rook Bow and arrow Oyster doily

chair

shade

chest

whalethread

earth

beansewe

firmouth fur

eel

valley singer

stall

Toes in shoes

goal

knight

stonemiceflame


/ar/arm, art, are, arch, bar, car, far, gar, jar, tar, scar, star, hard, yard, bark, dark, harm, charm, harp, sharp, part, start, carve, starve, march, large, barge, mark, starch

a. Mark the bark of your jar with starch.

b. Carve a large star on the tar.

c. The bar on the yard is park full with arts.

d. Large dark cars are charming in March.

Jar Star

Arts Car


/ay/day, lay, say, way, pay, may, pray, bay, jay, clay, stay, gay, sway, tray play, hay, spray, stray, rays, gray, today, delay, array

a. Do not delay on the way today.

b. You may stay playing near the rays.

c. Do well to pay for the tray at the bay in May.

d. They were arrayed in African dresses on the way today.

A way Sun rays

A bay African dresses


/ai/aid, aim, fail, pail, paid, claim, main, pain, chain, mail, sail, tail, snail, claim, plain, stain, train, wait, paint, faint, waist

a. Don’t aim to fail but train to claim.

b. The snail was aided on its tail to sail.

c. Waist pain is common in train trips.

d. The paint on the plain pail is faint.

Training session A snail

A train A pail


/au/sauce, gaunt, haunt, launch, Paul, fraud, pause, fault, vault, staunch, paunch, jaunt, haul, maul,

a. Paul was vaulting on horse back.

b. The tiger maul the tomato sauce.

c. Be ready for a jaunt to the beach.

d. Overfeeding will make you have a paunch.

Tomato sauceVaulting on horse back

A paunchA jaunt to the beach


/aw/raw, dawn, hawk, straw, squawk, yawn, lawn, drawn, prawn, crawl, draw, jaw

a. Pigs oink while parrots squawk.

b. Weaver birds used straw to build their nests.

c. Raw cocoyam is itchy in the jaw.

d. I won a laptop in the draw on the lawn.

Parrot squawking Straw nest

Raw cocoyam A lawn


/all/fall, all, call, ball, mall, tall wall pall, gall, shall, small, recall, stall, install, overall,

a. The tall wall will fall soon.

b. Call the gall man to bring some gall.

c. We shall put up a small stall for the show.

d. The overall price for the ball in the mall is not known.

A stall A ball

gallA wall


/oo/book, boom, brook, doom, food, fool, good, door, cool, hook, hood, hoof, jook, kook, roof, loom, moon, noon, pool, roof, room, rook, soon, tool, vroom, wool, woof, zoo, zoom, zoon

a. She sat near the zoo by the cool pool eating jook.

b. Good rook books will soon be booked.

c. Hook the hood on the roof.

d. Cool brooks make the noon beautiful.

a rooka brook

jookhood


a. They killed the cow with a bow and arrow.

b. The clown wore a brown crown that has thorns.

c. Use the browsers to browse and know how bowel movement works.

d. The bow and arrow fellow drown in the lake.

fellow

A crown

Internet browsers

Bow and arrow

/ow/own, bow, row, low, mow, bowl, crow, tow, blow, flow, grow, glow, know, show, slow, snow, brown, browse, cow, crown, clown, drown, how, allow, bowel, arrow, know, below, pillow, follow, window, yellow, hollow, fellow, arrow


/oe/toe, foe, hoe, doe, shoe, oboe, goes, woe, heroes, necroes, coed, throe, pekoe, Moe, joe, zeroes, roe, poem, noel, Poe, tomatoes, potatoes, cargoes, dominoes

a. The shoe is hurting his toe.

b. Noel goes to buy some tomatoes and a Moe.

c. Joe scored many zeroes in the oboe sound competition.

d. The heroes landed with many cargoes and some Moe stories.

Toes in shoes

Oboe

Tomatoes

Moe


/oy/

boy, joy, enjoy, annoy, employ, destroy,

royal soybean, oyster, employer, employee

Oyster toadfish

SoybeansEmployer and Employee

Royal prince

a. The Royal Prince is playing with the royal oyster pet.

b. The employee annoyed the employer by killing the oyster.

c. Her boyfriend, the Royal Prince, enjoyed the soybean soup.

d. There is soybean sauce with oyster at the royal dinner.


/oi/boil, coil, soil, toil, join, oil, voice, foil, spoil, noise, point, poison, moist, hoist, oink, avoid, toilet, doily, void, zoid

a. Avoid playing in the toilet.

b. The foil paper is soiled with oil.

c. Use the doily to preserve the moist.

d. The pigs oink sound filled the place with noise.

doily

Foil paper

A pig

Toilet paper


/ou/mouth, shout, sprout, sound, route scoundrel, shroud, sour, souse, spout, stout, gout, found, abound account aloud amount announce, around arouse, blouse, bounce, bound, cloud, cloudy, counsel, count

a. Shout out a sound with your mouth around the shroud.

b. The cloud made the weather cloudy for the route.

c. Beware of scoundrels, their mouths are sour.

d. He shouted that the amount for the blouse is found.

A scoundrel

cloud

blouse

mouth


/ch/chair, check, chest, cheese, check, chat, chase, cheap, child, chin, chip, choose, chop, chick, chew, catch, reach, pitch, touch, lunch, ranch, switch, match, bench, branch, beach, march, speech, stretch

a. Check the chair near the bench.

b. Take ranch for launch at the beach.

c. Don’t give the child cheap chips.

d. Reach out for a catch at the match.

bench beach

child catch


a. Shake the shade to fix the zinc sheet.

b. He shall share the sheep amongst the shepherds.

c. She bought her shoes from the shop in the ship.

d. It was a sham as shock and shame shut his mouth.

shade Sheep and shepherd

ship shame

/sh/shop, shoes, shot, shirt, sheep, ship, share, she, shade, shake, shall, sheet, shame, shock, sham, shame, rash, push, mush, shepherd


/th/thread, throw, three, third, think, thigh, throat, thongs, thirsty, Thursday, thought, thin, birth, forth, mother, father, feather

a. Father thinks mother is thirsty.

b. Thursday third is my forth birthday.

c. Birds have feathered thighs.

d. I think three throws will be enough to win the forth march.

Father and mother birthday

feather throw


/wh/who, what, when, which, where, whose, when, whale, wheat, wheel, while, whisper, whistle white, whip

a. Where is the whistle?

b. Who owns the whale and the wheat?

c. Which whistle was made from the whip?

d. what is the diameter of the wheel?

whistle Whale and wheat

whip wheel


/ee/eel, bee, fee, see, pee, deed, deep, deer, feel, feet, feed, keep, sheep, peel, steel, seek, tree, need, meet, greet, geed, heed, heel leer, keel

a. Keep the sheep in a sheep pen.

b. Tall trees need deep root.

c. Feed the sheep with bee feed.

d. Seek to sell the eel and pay your fee.

Sheep peneel

tree Sheep feed


/ea/eat, each, beat, bead, beak, east beast, bleach, bleak, bleat, beam, bean, cheat, cream, creak, cleave, cheap, breach, clean, clear

a. Each bird had a bleak beak.b. The beast cleave to each other at the

beach.c. Good water should be clean and clear

without cream. d. Make cheap beads with the bean

seeds.

beak beast

cream beans


/ey/valley, alley, key, money, honey, donkey, monkey, turkey, kidney, hockey, jockeypulley, trolley , journey, chimney, parsley

a. Use the pulley to pull the heavy weight box.

b. There is an alley between the valley houses.

c. Honey yields a lot of money.

d. Turkeys, monkeys and donkeys are animals.

pulley valley

honey turkey


/ew/ewe, few new, knew, pew, mew, stew, view, nephew, curfew, mildew, review, dew, sew, lewd, blew, brew, chew, shew, Jew, jewel, shrew, interview

a. James sew the wheat seeds while the wind blew.

b. My nephew chewed and listened as she viewed the shrew dance.

c. The curfew will affect the jewel sale.

d. The ewe loves chewing grass with dew.

jewel ewe

Sewing seeds shrew


/er/her, nerd, brother, sister, father, mother, after, butter, bigger, funnier, faster, louder, quieter, smaller, taller, slower, baker, answer, worker, computer, soldier, danger, summer, computer, whisper, different, weather,

a. The taller soldier was in danger.

b. The bakers brother also uses butter to bake.

c. The daughter whispered to her father near the computer.

d. The louder and faster the singer sings the better.

soldier baker

Father and daughter singer


/ear/earn, early, earnest, earth, fear, learn, heard, pearl, heart, search, clear, near, bear, rear, wear

a. We learnt about the earth today.

b. Her heart is on the pearl wear.

c. He break her heart with fear.

d. The bird sat near the house early in the morning.

Heart broken Bird near a house

Earth Pearl dress


/air/air, lair, chair, hair, stairs, pair, repair, affair, airbag, airbus, airman, wheelchair, downstairs

a. I repaired the broken chair yesterday.

b. The wheelchair is downstairs.

c. The airman has an airbus.

d. Most wolves and tigers live in a lair.

chair wheelchair

lairairbus


/ir/fir, birth, dirt, first, third, bird, girl, birth, flirt, shirt, sir, stir, skirt, third, thirst, thirty, thirsty

• There is a fir tree picture on the girl’s shirt.

• I have a skirt and a shirt. • The sir bought a bird for the third prize. • The thirty girls were so thirsty.

skirtfir

sir thirsty


/ur/fur, hurt, turn, burn, curl, curse, surf, your, return, Thursday, Saturday,

burnie,

a. Her hair curls like fur.

b. They shall burn the refuse at Burnie City on Thursday.

c. The burning wood turns into charcoal.

d. We played with the surf at the seashore on Saturday.

fur Burnie City

burn surf


/a-e/ale, ate, mate, shade, spade, gate, hate, late, skate, Kate, kale, made, date, fade, made, mate, nave, quake, rate, sate, vase, wage, yate, shake, stake, game, shame, flame, frame, chase, scrape, grape, amaze, escape, inflame, translate, migrate, vibrate, behave, calculate, estimate, evaluate, emigrate, hesitate

• The spade is in the shade near the gate.

• The rate you ate the cake amazed me.

• Kate made a vase for the game.

• He made a spade and quenched the flame.

spade cake

gameflame


/i-e/fire, admire, dire, bride, bike, like, mike, guide, kite, mite, dice, mice, nice, noise, nine, bribe, pike, hide wide life wife, file, mile, pile, crime, time, fine, whine, wine, shine, spine, stripe, ripe, strike, strive, rise, wise, bite, quite, rite, dive, drive, write, tire

a. I admire the bride near the fire.

b. Hide the dice in the kite.

c. My wife trekked one mile and was quite tired.

d. Nine mice rise against the cat.

bride dice wife mice


a. Rose kept the stone in her room.

b. Our house is in the grove near the pole.

c. Jones tied the dove with the rope.

d. I can see some smoke from the chimney.

/o-e/bone, hole, stone, choke, home, nose, rose, tone, globe, note, slope, vote, rode, stove, close, hope, rope, those, cone, grove, pole, smoke, zone, come, done, dove, glove, gone, love, none, some, poke, Jones

stone grove

dove smoke


a. She puts on her swim tight on a bright day.

b. The Knights might lose their plight because of fraught.

c. The highlights of the twilight sports delighted me.

d. The height of the mighty Mount Fako is frightening.

/igh/High, fight, tight, eight, might, bright, might, weigh, neigh, sigh fright flight, night, knight, plight, sight, slight, delight, nightmare, twilight, highlight, height

Twilight sports Mighty Mt. Fako

A knightSwim tight



Books in this series:1. Mastering the

Alphabet 1 The 26 English Sounds

2. Mastering the Alphabet 2 Sounds in Words

3. Mastering the Alphabet 3 Double Sounds

Mastering the Alphabet 2 Sounds in Words

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