For the next two weeks we will focus on the vowel diphthongs oi and oy. A diphthong has two parts that glide together through a noticeable change in mouth position. When making the /oi/ sound as in the word oil and toy, the sound starts at the front of the mouth and moves to the back of the mouth. Using a mirror to watch mouth position change is a helpful tool for students. Lucky for us there is a pretty regular rule for this sound. Don’t you just love that! The oi spelling is used when the sound is in the beginning or middle of a word. The oy spelling is used when the sound is at the end of the word (with a few exceptions ;). Our test is on Thursday, March 13th.
If you are in room 8 for spelling our words are:
1. join High Frequency Words
2. boil 1. enjoy
3. joy 2. boy
4. soil 3. would
5. noise 4. head
6. avoid 5. enough
7. voice
8. point
9. toy
10. coin
Happy Spelling!
Wow! I never learned these things myself until now. You are teaching me as well. What a great way to learn my correct pronunciation, right?
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