ea Phonogram

Phonograms are letters that stand for a single speech sound. Phonograms stick together. They work with each other to make one sound. The letters ea are a phonogram. They make the "A" sound.

The ea phonogram is special. When it talks it can make three sounds. It does not make all three sounds at one time.

This ea phonogram is shy. It only makes the "A" sound sometimes.

Here are some ea words: steak, break, great, unbreakable

 

Using the ea Phonogram

The ea phonogram is very shy. It doesn't make the "A" sound very often, but every now and then you will hear it make the "A" sound.

The ea phonogram is picky. When it does make the "A" sound, it likes to be in the middle of the word.

When ea makes its other sounds, it is not picky. We will cover the other sounds of the ea phonogram in another lesson.

 

Exercise 1

Which words are spelled correctly?

1) steak, staik, stayk, steighk

2) brayk, break, braik, breighk

3) grait, grayt, grat, great

4) braiking, brayking, breaking, breaking

5) unbreakable,unbreakable, unbreighkable, unbraykable






Answers:
steak, break, great, breaking, unbreakable

 

Exercise 2

Directions: Say the word. Cover the word. Write the word three times

great

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

break

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

steak

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

breaking

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

unbreakable

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

 

Exercise 3

Fill in the blanks with the words below.

unbreakable, steak, break, breaking, great

1) Jack and Jill went to the store to buy some ________ , eggs and milk.

2) The jar is ______________ because it is made of plastic.

3) Stop ____________ cracker crumbs on the floor.

4) I saw a __________, big elephant at the zoo.

5) If you __________ the toy on purpose I will not buy you another.





Answers:
1) steak, 2) unbreakable, 3) breaking, 4) great, 5) break

 

Exercise 3

Unscramble the words below.

1) kraeb

2) treag

3) kebunreaal

4) teask

5) enbragik






Answers:
1) break, 2) great, 3)unbreakable, 4)steak, 5) breaking

Most of the time the ea Sound Family makes different sounds. The other two sounds will be covered in later lessons.