Last year my GD brought home her list of spelling words for Fridays test. Then she had to write sentences using each word with both pronunciations. She was 8 at the time.she says -With all the letters in the ABC's the people from the olden days could have been more creative when spelling words... but we challenged her and the word READ stumped her because if you say I red the book then it's now the color. But that still did nothing for convincing her the people from the olden days knew what they were doing