Part 3 READING:
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
3.1 Phonics and Word Recognition
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Variant Vowel Spelled au, aw, alt, alk, all,
ough
Practice
Print this page and then write your answers.
A. Underline the letters in each of these words that stand for the vowel
sound you hear in the word tall.
1. author
2. yawned
3. autumn
4. fallen
5. brought
6. bought
7. cough
8. auction
9. lawn
10. boardwalk
11. talking
12. salted
13. stall
14. vault
15. chalk
au
aw
alk
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all
alt
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B. Now sort the words by spelling pattern.