# 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).