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Up Early at Willow Lake: Tricky Words

Read tricky, irregularly spelled words such as tough, heard and early, then find them in a story about a first fishing trip.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRF.3.3.d

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1 Common Core standard
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10 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students read irregularly spelled words with ough and with an o that sounds like short u.
Students match tricky words to rhyming words to show how they sound.
Students read and find irregularly spelled words in a story.

How to use

Read the tip aloud and model saying ough three different ways before students start. Have students whisper-read the story before they answer the story questions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RF.3.3.d

Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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Up Early at Willow Lake: Tricky Words

Read words whose spelling does not match their sound.

Tricky spellings

Say each word in your head before you answer.

Tip: Some words use letters in surprising ways, so we learn to read them by sight. The letters ough can stand for different sounds. The letter o can sound like the u in cup, as in come.

What sound do the letters ough make in each word? Sort the words.

toughbroughtdoughalthoughroughbought