UFLI 114 low frequency spelling ei, eigh, ey, ea, aigh for long a and homophones

Question 1

cake

Question 2

rain

Question 3

gray

Question 4

acorn

Question 5

vein

Question 6

rein

Question 7

veil

Question 8

hey

Question 9

they

Question 10

obey

Question 11

eight

Question 12

neigh

Question 13

sleigh

Question 14

eighty

Question 15

straight

Question 16

great

Question 17

break

Question 18

prey

Question 19

straighter

Question 20

survey

Question 21

neighbor

Question 22

straighten

Question 23

reindeer

Question 24

great

Question 25

steak

Question 26

homophones:

rein

rain

Answer 26

Reins are the thin leather straps attached around a horse’s neck for horseback riding.

Rain is water that falls from the clouds in small drops.

Question 27

homophones:

wait

weight

Answer 27

When you wait for something or someone, you spend time doing very little, because you cannot act until that thing happens or that person arrives.

Weight is how heavy something is, measured in units like pounds or kilograms.

Question 28

homophones:

waist

waste

Answer 28

Your waist is the middle part of your body where it narrows slightly above your hips.

If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary.

Question 29

homophones

way

weigh

Answer 29

If you describe a way of doing something, you are talking about how you can do it.

If you weigh something or someone, you measure how heavy they are.

Question 30

homophones:

great

grate

Answer 30

Great is a word used to describe something that is important, famous, or exciting.

If you grate food such as cheese or carrots, you rub it over a metal tool called a grater so that the food is cut into very small pieces.

Question 31

homophones:

eight

ate

Answer 31

Eight is a number. I am eight years old.

Ate is the past tense of eat. I ate some toast yesterday.