Alternative Spellings for Sounds
Spell words using alternative grapheme choices for known phonemes, learning new spellings for sounds already encountered (e.g., /ɔ:/ as 'a' before ll, /ʌ/ as 'o', words ending -tion), including distinguishing common homophones
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Choose spellings by sound and meaning while distinguishing words that only look similar.
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Choose spellings by sound and meaning while distinguishing words that only look similar.
Choose spellings by sound and meaning while distinguishing words that only look similar.
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UF Literacy Institute · Practice link — not the full lesson
Lessons 89–94 Resources
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Free UFLI Foundations toolbox materials for other vowel teams as alternative spellings for known sounds. Not every r-controlled pattern.
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Public UF Literacy Institute Foundations toolbox page for Lessons 89–94 (Other Vowel Teams). An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this page. Printable and slide links on the page were not downloaded in this check. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. The paid UFLI Foundations manual is separate from these free toolbox materials.
UF Literacy Institute. “Lessons 89–94 Resources.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- Spell 'ball', 'call', 'walk' using alternative grapheme /ɔ:/ as 'a' before ll
- Distinguish homophones in writing: 'there/their/they’re', 'here/hear', 'quite/quiet'
- Spell words ending in -tion correctly: 'station', 'fiction', 'motion'
“When your child writes and comes across a word where the same sound can be spelled different ways — like "see" and "sea" — do they know which spelling to use?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Spelling & Word Study
- Age range
- Ages 6–9
Standards