Phonics Patterns
Practice spelling patterns like short vowels, blends, digraphs, vowel teams, and word families.
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Short Vowels
Words with short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) in simple CVC patterns like cat, bed, and sun.
Welded Sounds
Glued sound chunks like -am, -an, -all, -ank, -ink, and -ung that blend together, like ham, ball, bank, and song.
Blends
Words with consonant blends where two or more consonants appear together, like stop, flip, and brush.
Digraphs
Words with digraphs – two letters that make one sound – like sh, ch, th, wh, and ck.
Silent-e
Words where a silent e at the end makes the vowel say its name, like make, bike, and hope. Also called magic-e.
Soft C & Soft G
Words where c says /s/ and g says /j/ before e, i, or y, like city, cent, gem, and giant.
Vowel Teams
Words with vowel teams (two vowels working together) like ai, ay, ea, ee, oa, and ow.
R-Controlled Vowels
Words where r changes the vowel sound, like ar (car), or (corn), and er/ir/ur (bird, turn).
Schwa
Words with the schwa – an unstressed vowel that sounds like a short u, like the a in about or the e in pencil.
Syllable Types
Words organized by syllable type – closed, open, silent-e, vowel team, r-controlled, and consonant-le.
Spelling Rules
Words that follow key spelling rules like Floss, C/K/CK, doubling, drop-e, and change y to i.
Prefixes & Suffixes
Words with prefixes, suffixes, and inflectional endings that change meaning or tense.
Homophones
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings, like to/too/two and there/their/they're.
Greek & Latin Roots
Words built from Greek and Latin roots and academic word parts that build vocabulary.
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