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<p>Introduction xv</p> <p><b>Part I Homophones and Phonics Lessons 1</b></p> <p>Lesson 1: be vs. bee 3</p> <p>Lesson 2: by vs. bye vs. buy 4</p> <p>Lesson 3: fair vs. fare 5</p> <p>Lesson 4: no vs. know 6</p> <p>Lesson 5: to vs. too vs. two 7</p> <p>Lesson 6: loan vs. lone 8</p> <p>Lesson 7: tail vs. tale 9</p> <p>Lesson 8: sea vs. see 10</p> <p>Lesson 9: lie vs. lye 11</p> <p>Lesson 10: meat vs. meet 12</p> <p>Lesson 11: maid vs. made 13</p> <p>Lesson 12: son vs. sun 14</p> <p>Lesson 13: dear vs. deer 15</p> <p>Lesson 14: do vs. due vs. dew 16</p> <p>Lesson 15: wood vs. would 17</p> <p>Lesson 16: write vs. right 18</p> <p>Lesson 17: pole vs. poll 19</p> <p>Lesson 18: bear vs. bare 20</p> <p>Lesson 19: tax vs. tacks 21</p> <p>Lesson 20: bite vs. byte 22</p> <p>Lesson 21: brake vs. break 23</p> <p>Lesson 22: mail vs. male 24</p> <p>Lesson 23: flea vs. flee 25</p> <p>Lesson 24: shoe vs. shoo 26</p> <p>Lesson 25: cheap vs. cheep 27</p> <p>Lesson 26: hall vs. haul 28</p> <p>Lesson 27: leak vs. leek 29</p> <p>Lesson 28: roll vs. role 30</p> <p>Lesson 29: die vs. dye 31</p> <p>Lesson 30: led vs. lead 32</p> <p>Lesson 31: eight vs. ate 33</p> <p>Lesson 32: I vs. eye 34</p> <p>Lesson 33: ball vs. bawl 35</p> <p>Lesson 34: base vs. bass 36</p> <p>Lesson 35: week vs. weak 37</p> <p>Lesson 36: not vs. knot 38</p> <p>Lesson 37: rain vs. reign 39</p> <p>Lesson 38: plain vs. plane 40</p> <p>Lesson 39: past vs. passed 41</p> <p>Lesson 40: or vs. oar 42</p> <p>Lesson 41: beach vs. beech 43</p> <p>Lesson 42: row vs. roe 44</p> <p>Lesson 43: pause vs. paws 45</p> <p>Lesson 44: oh vs. owe 46</p> <p>Lesson 45: beat vs. beet 47</p> <p>Lesson 46: pier vs. peer 48</p> <p>Lesson 47: hole vs. whole 49</p> <p>Lesson 48: which vs. witch 50</p> <p>Lesson 49: hail vs. hale 51</p> <p>Lesson 50: guest vs. guessed 52</p> <p>Lesson 51: sell vs. cell 53</p> <p>Lesson 52: cents vs. sense 54</p> <p>Lesson 53: bread vs. bred 55</p> <p>Lesson 54: band vs. banned 56</p> <p>Lesson 55: root vs. route 57</p> <p>Lesson 56: peak vs. peek 58</p> <p>Lesson 57: one vs. won 59</p> <p>Lesson 58: night vs. knight 60</p> <p>Lesson 59: rose vs. rows 61</p> <p>Lesson 60: pail vs. pale 62</p> <p>Lesson 61: in vs. inn 63</p> <p>Lesson 62: road vs. rode 64</p> <p>Lesson 63: pair vs. pear 65</p> <p>Lesson 64: him vs. hymn 66</p> <p>Lesson 65: fur vs. fir 67</p> <p>Lesson 66: hair vs. hare 68</p> <p>Lesson 67: new vs. knew 69</p> <p>Lesson 68: higher vs. hire 70</p> <p>Lesson 69: flu vs. flew 71</p> <p>Lesson 70: great vs. grate 72</p> <p>Lesson 71: hi vs. high 73</p> <p>Lesson 72: find vs. fined 74</p> <p>Lesson 73: so vs. sew 75</p> <p>Lesson 74: raise vs. rays 76</p> <p>Lesson 75: way vs. weigh 77</p> <p>Lesson 76: ant vs. aunt 78</p> <p>Lesson 77: berry vs. bury 79</p> <p>Lesson 78: blue vs. blew 80</p> <p>Lesson 79: our vs. hour 81</p> <p>Lesson 80: plum vs. plumb 82</p> <p>Lesson 81: read vs. reed 83</p> <p>Lesson 82: ring vs. wring 84</p> <p>Lesson 83: toe vs. tow 85</p> <p>Lesson 84: rap vs. wrap 86</p> <p>Lesson 85: warn vs. worn 87</p> <p>Lesson 86: least vs. leased 88</p> <p>Lesson 87: red vs. read 89</p> <p>Lesson 88: bale vs. bail 90</p> <p>Lesson 89: been vs. bin 91</p> <p>Lesson 90: flower vs. flour 92</p> <p><b>Part II Contractions, Capitalization, Common Misspellings, and More 93</b></p> <p><b>Contractions 95</b></p> <p>Lesson 91: Contractions: Not 97</p> <p>Lesson 92: Contractions: Will or Shall 98</p> <p>Lesson 93: Contractions: Have 99</p> <p>Lesson 94: Contractions: Would or Had 100</p> <p>Lesson 95: Contractions: Is or Has 101</p> <p>Lesson 96: Contractions: Various 102</p> <p><b>Capitalization 103</b></p> <p>Lesson 97: Capitalization: First Word 105</p> <p>Lesson 98: Capitalization: Names 106</p> <p>Lesson 99: Capitalization: Places 107</p> <p>Lesson 100: Capitalization: Pets 108</p> <p>Lesson 101: Capitalization: Holidays 109</p> <p>Lesson 102: Capitalization: Books, Plays, and Movies 110</p> <p>Lesson 103: Capitalization: Periodicals 111</p> <p>Lesson 104: Capitalization: People’s Titles 112</p> <p>Lesson 105: Capitalization: Companies 113</p> <p>Lesson 106: Capitalization: Quotations 114</p> <p>Lesson 107: Capitalization: Review 115</p> <p><b>Common Misspellings 117</b></p> <p>Lesson 108: Common Misspellings 119</p> <p>Lesson 109: Common Misspellings 120</p> <p>Lesson 110: Common Misspellings 121</p> <p>Lesson 111: Common Misspellings 122</p> <p>Lesson 112: Common Misspellings 123</p> <p>Lesson 113: Common Misspellings 124</p> <p>Lesson 114: Common Misspellings 125</p> <p>Lesson 115: Common Misspellings 126</p> <p>Lesson 116: Common Misspellings 127</p> <p>Lesson 117: Common Misspellings 128</p> <p><b>Plurals 129</b></p> <p>Lesson 118: Plurals: For Most Words 131</p> <p>Lesson 119: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘S’’ or ‘‘SS’’ 132</p> <p>Lesson 120: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘CH’’ 133</p> <p>Lesson 121: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘SH’’ 134</p> <p>Lesson 122: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘X’’ 135</p> <p>Lesson 123: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘Y’’ 136</p> <p>Lesson 124: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘O’’ 137</p> <p>Lesson 125: Plurals: Irregular Plurals 138</p> <p>Lesson 126: Plurals: Invariable Nouns 139</p> <p><b>Abbreviations 141</b></p> <p>Lesson 127: Abbreviations: First Two Letters 143</p> <p>Lesson 128: Abbreviations: First and Last Letters 144</p> <p>Lesson 129: Abbreviations: First and Middle Letters 145</p> <p>Lesson 130: Abbreviations: Two-Word State Names 146</p> <p>Lesson 131: Abbreviations: Initializations 147</p> <p>Lesson 132: Abbreviations: Days of the Week 148</p> <p>Lesson 133: Abbreviations: Months of the Year 149</p> <p>Lesson 134: Abbreviations: Streets 150</p> <p>Lesson 135: Abbreviations: Titles 151</p> <p>Lesson 136: Abbreviations: Time 152</p> <p>Lesson 137: Abbreviations: Various Fields 153</p> <p><b>Homophone Contractions 155</b></p> <p>Lesson 138: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘They’re’’ 157</p> <p>Lesson 139: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘You’re’’ 158</p> <p>Lesson 140: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘It’s’’ 159</p> <p>Lesson 141: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘Who’s’’ 160</p> <p><b>Silent Letters 161</b></p> <p>Lesson 142: Silent Letters: WR 165</p> <p>Lesson 143: Silent Letters: GN 166</p> <p>Lesson 144: Silent Letters: KN 167</p> <p>Lesson 145: Silent Letters: Silent Blend GH 168</p> <p>Lesson 146: Silent Letters: Silent B and d 169</p> <p>Lesson 147: Silent Letters: Silent H and P 170</p> <p>Lesson 148: Silent Letters: Silent PH and QU 171</p> <p>Lesson 149: Silent Letters: Silent T and U 172</p> <p><b>Double Letters 173</b></p> <p>Lesson 150: Double Letters: FF 175</p> <p>Lesson 151: Double Letters: LL 176</p> <p>Lesson 152: Double Letters: SS 177</p> <p>Lesson 153: Double Letters: ZZ 178</p> <p><b>Suffixes 179</b></p> <p>Lesson 154: Suffixes: Doubling Final Consonant 181</p> <p>Lesson 155: Suffixes: Doubling Two-Vowel Words 182</p> <p>Lesson 156: Suffixes: Doubling Two Consonants at End 183</p> <p>Lesson 157: Suffixes: Words Ending in E 184</p> <p><b>Compound Words 185</b></p> <p>Lesson 158: Compound Words 187</p> <p><b>Prefixes 189</b></p> <p>Lesson 159: Prefixes: Letter Doubling A- 191</p> <p>Lesson 160: Prefixes: Letter Doubling O- and CO- 192</p> <p><b>Ending Sounds 193</b></p> <p>Lesson 161: Ending Sounds: LE = EL 195</p> <p>Lesson 162: Ending Sounds: ER = AR = OR 196</p> <p>Lesson 163: Ending Sounds: ER = AR = OR 197</p> <p>Lesson 164: Ending Sounds: K and CK 198</p> <p>Lesson 165: Ending Sounds: KE and NK 199</p> <p><b>Spelling Problems 201</b></p> <p>Lesson 166: Spelling Problems: Letter c 203</p> <p>Lesson 167: Spelling Problems: IE or EI? 204</p> <p>Lesson 168: Spelling Problems: -TION vs. -SION 205</p> <p>Lesson 169: Spelling Problems: -AIR vs. -ARE 206</p> <p><b>Homophone Look-Up Drills 207</b></p> <p>Lesson 170: Homophone Look-Up Drill 209</p> <p>Lesson 171: Homophone Look-Up Drill 210</p> <p>Lesson 172: Homophone Look-Up Drill 211</p> <p>Lesson 173: Homophone Look-Up Drill 212</p> <p>Lesson 174: Homophone Look-Up Drill 213</p> <p>Lesson 175: Homophone Look-Up Drill 214</p> <p>Lesson 176: Homophone Look-Up Drill 215</p> <p>Lesson 177: Homophone Look-Up Drill 216</p> <p>Lesson 178: Homophone Look-Up Drill 217</p> <p>Lesson 179: Homophone Look-Up Drill 218</p> <p>Lesson 180: Homophone Look-Up Drill 219</p> <p>Appendix: Homophone Master List 221</p>

<b>Edward B. Fry</b>, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the bestselling author of numerous books including <i>The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists</i> from Jossey-Bass. He is the former director of Rutgers's Reading Center and is recognized internationally for his Readability Graph which is used by teachers, publishers, and others to judge the reading difficulty of books and other materials.

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