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The Hardest Sounds
Grade 3 · English Home Language · Term 4English Home Language · Term 4
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The last and trickiest spelling patterns in Grade 3 — the ones that break the rules.
- Hear hard and soft c: cat and city.
- Hear hard and soft g: goat and giant.
- Read here, hair and square and notice three spellings, one sound family.
- Take on -igh and -eigh: high, night, neigh, eight.
- Take on -ough and -augh: tough, thought, caught.
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