# Cycle 181 ## 181.1 Letter Combinations #### Purpose and Procedure This task requires students to read multisyllabic words containing the minor *ow* sound. Students are not asked to identify the letter combination or its sound before reading the word. ## 181.3 Patterns #### Purpose and Procedure This is the beginning of a series of tasks that will teach students to read words that are formed by adding an -*er*, -*ed*, -*s*, or -*est* ending to base words that end in -*y*. For example, *funniest* is formed by adding -*est* to the end of *funny*. This is a tricky skill because the same endings make different sounds depending on the base word. For example, the ending of *cried* is spelled the same as the ending of *hurried*, but they are pronounced differently. In this cycle, you tell students a base word, which they repeat, and then tell them to say that word with the ending shown in the student pane. ## 181.5 Story Reading #### Purpose and Procedure This is the first task in which the *ew* letter combination is not underlined (in the story text of the *New Passage* only). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://curriculum.tryonce.com/cycle-181.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.