all fall
/all/ spelled as ‘all’
(3 letters, one sound = trigraph)
air chair
/air/ spelled as ‘air’ (chair), ‘ear’ (pear, bear), ‘are’ (care, share), ‘ere’ (where, there)
(3 letters, one sound = trigraph)
We’ll make some practice sheets for this sound soon.
Other trigraph (and multigraph) spellings of the /air/ sound are found in these common homophones:
there, their, they’re
where, wear, we’re
/ɪr/ spelled as ‘ear’ ‘eer’ ‘ere’
‘ear’ (hear), ‘eer’ (deer), ‘ere’ (here)
I hear the deer was here and jumped with fear.
Less commonly it is spelled as ‘ier’ (tier) and ‘er’ (experience)
/ŋ/ spelled as ‘ng’ ping
Hear this sound in lots of fun words … ping, pong, ding, dong, sing, song, sung, ring, swing, bling.
You’ll always find ‘ng’ at the end of a word or syllable.
The /ŋ/ sound of “ng” in also sometime spelled “n” before ‘k’ in words like plank, bank, monkey