Solutions to Lesson 17: The "oo-hook" unlocks words like "tuck", "took", and "tomb"

Check your reading comprehension with the following solutions

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Let’s check our work from yesterday’s assignment.

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Reviewing the forms from previous lessons:

Let’s start by reviewing the forms from previous lessons:

Motion, drove, fellow, brought, draw, salt,

hot, block, sorrow, coal, ready, reader, readily,

readers, own, only, owner, owners, to pay, as well as, would be able.

The “oo-hook”

The upper part of the above elliptical figure is called the “oo-hook” and it expresses the following sounds:

The 3 “oo-hook” sounds:

1: the sound of ŭ as in cut

Cut, does, dozen, cup, up, us, cousin, rug,

luck, utmost, production, reduction, none, numb.

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2: the sound of ꝏ as in took

Hook, took, pull, cook, foot, shook, sugar.

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3: the sound of ōō as in who

Who, to, do, tooth, food, fool, drew, shoot, boots,

through, mood, canoe, noon, smooth, cool, choose, whose.

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Reading Exercise:

“A Secret Vacation” (405 Words) + Bonus Letters

As I started up the stairs, I took note of the dozens of jobs that had to be finished either that day or early the next morning.