Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Sixteen, Lesson One: Letter Patterns

  1. wind
  2. mind
  3. find
  4. spine
  5. fine
  6. mine
  7. fossil
  8. fuel
  9. electric
  10. thermal
  1. turbines
  2. dam
  3. project
  4. generate
  5. hydroelectric
  6. geothermal
  7. gasoline
  8. coal
  9. efficient
  10. plentiful
Letter Patterns

This list contains several words with the -ind and -ine letter patterns. Here are some more words with these letter patterns: 


	find			blind			kind

	rewind			dine			nine

	shrine			pine			wine
Notice that the word "wind" is pronounced with a different vowel sound than the other -ind words. In fact, the second vowel sound in "rewind" is even different from that of "wind".

Another letter pattern which occurs in some of the words in this list is the -al letter pattern. 


	thermal			geothermal		coal

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