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Memory aids are often used to help students remember certain spelling rules. The FLoSS rule is one of the first spelling rules taught to our first and second grade students to help them understand when to double the final “f”, “l” and “s” consonants at the end of certain words.   The word “floss” actually follows the FLoSS rule.

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Memory aids are often used to help students remember certain spelling rules. The FLoSS rule is one of the first spelling rules taught to our first and second grade students to help them understand when to double the final "f", "l" and "s" consonants at the end of certain words. The word "floss" actually follows the FLoSS rule. When a /f/, /l/ /s/ (or /z/) is heard after a short vowel at the end of a one-syllable word, it is spelled with a double "ff", "ll", "ss" or "zz". Okay, you're probably thinking how did that "z" sneak in there. Well, there really aren't too many words that end in "z" so this rule will work for the majority of words your students encounter. Feel free to download this free FLoSS rule poster for your classroom.

Click the following link to download this poster Floss Poster

It's always helpful to have on hand word lists for specific phonics concepts. You can also download this handout by clicking the link below.

Click the following link to download the free FLOSS word list Floss Word List

To teach and practice this rule, it's helpful to identify words that follow and then do not follow this rule. I created this file folder activity so that students can analyze words according to their features and then decide if the word is a FLoSS word. This file folder activity is great for independent centers as it offers a hands-on approach to learning. By laminating the file folder, you can use this activity over and over again!

The File Folder Phonics Activity for The FLOSS Rule is available in my Teachers Pay Teacher store or through the Make, Take & Teach website.

There are certainly many more rules that students need to learn to become proficient readers and writers. The Make, Take & Teach Even More! File Folder Phonics Activities contains 13 hands-on activities for teaching contractions, plurals, past tense and more!

The Even More File Folder Phonics Activities is available in my online TpT store or through the Make, Take & Teach website.

Hope you find these activities helpful in teaching your kiddos those rules.

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Memory aids are often used to help students remember certain spelling rules. The FLoSS rule is one of the first spelling rules taught to our first and second grade students to help them understand when to double the final "f", "l" and "s" consonants at the end of certain words.

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Double Consonant Words: ff, ll, ss, zz and more - Sort, Read, Spell, Create

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Words with Double Consonants - Distance Learning Worksheets - Fun Phonics Game | Consonant, Double consonants, Consonant words

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Jun 20, 2020 - Words with double consonants - Literacy Center Activities - Sort, Read, Spell, CreateThese 12 different Double Consonant Puzzles are guaranteed to excite your students and keep them engaged while learning different words with the double consonants ll, ff, ss, zz, bb, dd, gg, mm, nn, pp, rr, tt, and ...

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If a word has one syllable, one, vowel, AND one final consonant, the last consonant must be doubled before adding a vowel suffix such as –ed or –ing.

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Are you working on the 1-1-1 Doubling Rule when it comes to adding inflected endings, such as -ed or -ing? You'll love these freebies from our Interactive Inflected Endings Pack!

*The free printables can be found at the END of this post. Scroll down and find the teal download button.

If you know me well, you know that I'm not keen on teaching tons of spelling rules to learners. The main reason is that most of the spelling rules commonly taught have more exceptions that words that follow the rule. This only serves to confuse our learners.

But the 1-1-1 doubling rule is very consistent {if learners keep in mind the two things I mention later in this post} and can help learners move from reading and spelling shorter words to longer words.

1-1-1 Doubling Rule

What exactly is the 1-1-1 doubling rule?

Essentially it states: If a word has one syllable, one, vowel, AND one final consonant, the last consonant must be doubled before adding a vowel suffix such as - ed or - ing.

This 1-page chart can help learners remember when you use the 1-1-1 rule for doubling final consonants.
*It is important for learners to keep two things in mind:
1. The 1-1-1 rule applies to vowel suffixes, not consonant suffixes. What are vowel and consonant suffixes? A vowel suffix is a word ending that starts with a vowel such as -ing, -ed, -y, etc. A consonant suffix is a word ending that starts with a consonant such as -ment, -s, -tion, etc.

2. Not all final consonants are what they seem. For example, the letter x is not doubled in English { boxing}. Neither are y and w. This is because y and w are usually a part of a vowel team { snow or play} and act as a vowel in this case, not a consonant.

Also included in this free sample is an interactive page where learners cut, glue, then spell words by adding -ing. It's a mixed page including words that follow the 1-1-1 rule and words that don't.

Lastly, I've included a simple base word + ending spelling page. Once again, some of the words are 1-1-1 while others, like thank, are not.
{Grab our ENTIRE Interactive Inflecting Endings Pack
OR keep scrolling for the freebies!} Find more freebies for Spelling & Word Study!
Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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1-1-1 Doubling Rule Printables - This Reading Mama

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Are you working on the 1-1-1 Doubling Rule when it comes to adding inflected endings, such as -ed or -ing? You'll love these freebies from our Interactive Inflected Endings Pack! *The free printables can be found at the END of this post. Scroll down and find the teal download button.

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Double Consonant Endings (ll, ss, ff, zz) Game "Snakes and Ladders"

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Double Consonant Endings (ll, ss, ff, zz) Game "Snakes and Ladders"

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Snakes and Ladders is an informational and engaging game for students who are learning about double consonants.

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Double Consonant Endings (ll, ss, ff, zz) Game "Snakes and Ladders"

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Let's drill -ff, -ss, -zz, -ll words!Educational Snakes and Ladders Game is a great review activity. My students really like this game.There are 4 game boards in this set.Each board contains 28 double consonant ending words.Game Board #1: double consonant endling -ll wordsGame Board #2: double cons...

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Teach Your Monster to Read is a reading and literacy game available as an app and on the web.

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Teach your Monster to Read app is widely used in preschool, primary school, kindergarten and first grade as an interactive teaching resource. Parents have seen significant improvements in their children's literacy within weeks.

Is Teach Your Monster to Read: Phonics & Reading Game easy to use?

After completing a Teach Your Monster to Read review we have found that yes, Teach Your Monster to Read app is quite user friendly. Upon opening the Teach your Monster to Read app, the user is shown a home screen with 'Settings' in the top right, 'info for teachers' in the bottom right and a 'Log in' for a new player.

The 'Settings' menu is parental lock protected and gives you a number options such as music on/off, School Mode and further information about the app. There is also an option to set a magic number which helps when setting the Monster Learning app up in a school classroom situation.

Once a new player has been created they are given the option of three game play modes.

First steps are for children just starting to learn letters and sound, Fun with words is for children who are confident and early letter-sound combinations and are starting to read sentences and Champion reader for children who are confidently reading short sentences and know all of the basic letter sounds combinations.

What we love about Teach Your Monster to Read

Kids love this teach monsters app because they gets to create their own monster. When doing our Teach Your Monster to Read review we really like the idea of this section of the Teach Monster app as the child can personalise their learning.

Once ready, the monster will board his spaceship and take off to the galaxies. Unfortunately, there's his spaceship crash lands on a magical planet.

The Island King promises to help fix the spaceship as long as you help him reclaim his missing letters which means kids need to teach their monster how to read. To do so you must play various mini games. The King will reward you for every letter collected. If they can find all of his letters, he will fix one part of the spaceship and take them to a neighboring island king who can help them fix the other parts.

There are eight islands in this game. On each island, you must find up to four graphemes. For example, the first island consists of s, a, t, and p, and the last island consists of x, y, z, and zz. The game includes 31 graphemes of English words, including ck, ff, ll, ss, and qu.

To unlock each letter, you must play one of the following five activities. As soon as they have unlocked the activities, they can choose any one they prefer to claim the letter.

Sheep: Listen to the phonics sound, and gather the sheep together in the right pen.

Build: Listen to the sound, and pick up the right block to build the spaceship.

Run: A mini endless running game where you choose the correct path based on the sound they hear as they hit the giant flowers.

Factory: Suck up the right letters as they pass through the assembly line based on the sound heard.

Climb: Climb the windows of a multistory apartment while building a CVC (Consonant-Vocal-Consonant) word based on the hint provided.

The Fun with words section of this reading and phonics app is an adventure game that takes your monster through a magical kingdom with various challenges and games including sounds such as ch, sh, zz, ay, ck and simple word construction such as cat, jam and chick.

Can you teach your monster to read for free?

No, Teach Your Monster to Read is not a free app. Teach Monster app costs $4.99 to play on desktop and laptop computers.The iPhone, iPad and Android version of the game is a paid-for app. Additionally, there are no in-app purchases, hidden costs or in-game adverts. The web-based version for computers is free and contains all 3 Teach Your Monster to Read games

How Teach Your Monster to Read: Phonics & Reading Game can benefit your child

The Champion reader for Children section of the Teach Your Monster to Read app is more of a platform app and guides the monster through a series of challenges including advanced phonics such as ay, oh, letter recognition, sounds, word construction and instructions. Once again here the games are slightly repetitive (although slightly harder) but presented in a different story scenario. We really like the fact that the more advanced section of the app moves faster than the earlier sections to match the child's ability with thinking and reasoning. We like the fact that the games build on each other and provide a logical, fun way for children to improve their skills. Parents and teachers please be aware that the games do not always explain exactly what needs to happen, so users may need some support.

When doing our Teach Your Monster to Read review we loved the quirky graphics and the games are great fun to play. The developers can be congratulated on the graphical appearance of the Monster Learning app, the sound and the rewards that you can achieve after each game is complete, the reward can also be chosen first which is good for motivation and classroom competition. However, we did not there was a vast amount of repetition. We also found that the game was quite slow in places and a little unresponsive.

Teach Monster app itself takes fairly long to rebuild the spaceship. Once they've have completed your monster reading journey, Teach Monster app will offer to restart the game. The developers also provide on-line support and a developer's blog which provides ideas about teaching phonics at home.

We applaud the publisher for the high quality content and rich features. It is a great way for children to learn phonics in a fun way and offers a vast number of letters and games which makes it real value for money. Teach Monster app comes highly recommended by the Educational App Store and we believe that Teach Your Monster to Read app is one of the best phonics apps available.

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Teach your Monster to Read app is widely used in preschool, primary school, kindergarten and first grade as an interactive teaching resource. Parents have seen significant improvements in their children's literacy within weeks. After completing a Teach Your Monster to Read review we have found that yes, Teach Your Monster to Read app is quite user friendly.

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Phonics Genius is a customizable flashcard-style app designed to help kids identify letter sounds and their relationship to words. It has over 6,000 words grouped into 225 categories, including single letter and letter combination sounds.

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"WOW... over 6,000 words grouped by phonics sounds. This app is awesome to teach phonic awareness!"

One of the best ways to rapidly learn how to speak, read, and recognize words is through phonic awareness. This app is specifically designed to help students recognize and distinguish words by sounds.

This app is loaded with content. We are talking over 6,000 professionally recorded words carefully grouped into 225 categories by phonics.

Ideal for Kids 1 - 6 Years Old

WHY STUDENTS AND KIDS LOVE IT

● Over 6,000 unique words - this means you will never get tired of it since you always have new words to discover

● Words are intelligently grouped by phonics

● App supports 3 unique learning modes including (play audio automatically and proceed to next card on click or hear audio only on click and move back and forth one word at a time by swiping left or right)

● Multiple unique game (quiz) modes from easy (2 words only) to challenging (6 words per page)

● Phonic highlights accelerate learning - students can see the phoneme that is being emphasized in each lesson via highlights

● Ability to add your own cards - you can add an unlimited number of new words and record your own voice

● Add new lists - you can add and group flash cards into customizable lists which is ideal for learning

● Fun & engaging voice artist keeps kids engaged

● The application works both in portrait and landscape mode

● Fully customizable font size, font color, spelling (upper case, lower case, etc.)

● Unique continuous looping feature so you can go through hundreds of flashcards automatically

● Customizable speed - you decide how fast to go from flashcard to flashcard

● Infant mode - includes ability to select extra large font size and red font color (ideal for babies less than 12 months of age)

● Don't want to teach a given word? No problem, just delete the card

● Multi-sensory learning tool - combining audio, voice, and written words

HEROIC SUPPORT

Heroic Support is not just what we do. It's really what makes us, well, us. It's that drive to make a difference in your life - no matter how big or small. Really, it's our way of life because we want you to be our customer for a lifetime of fun and learning.

Have questions? We are here to help. Email us at support@alligatorapps.com

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Fixed audio recording bug

GREAT APP!

I love how there are many pronunciations and a speaker.

The bad thing is every time I play a record of my voice, the speaker's volume is smaller

Earning Points For Play Would Help

hold the interest of my 6 year old son. The content is spot on (5 Stars)and there could be loads of learning going on here if my son were even just a little more engaged by earning something! Haha! Anything -Stars, points, cash to by some virtual something...he like to win things. While great content the game application of finding the right word of six words just drones on with the words, great, perfect or good job. Cool sounds would also add to raising the engagement factor as well. Great app just need some swagger to engage a savvy audience!! Engagement score (1 Star) combined with content score (5 stars) to come up with a total rating of 3

EA Can Make 3 Sounds

There are three sounds the vowel blend 'ea' can make and this app is missing one. The vowel blend 'ea' can also make the long A sound as in the words "great", "break", and "steak".

The developer, Innovative Mobile Apps, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Information

Seller

Innovative Mobile Apps Ltd

Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 8.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 8.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Age Rating

4+, Made for Ages 6-8

Family Sharing

Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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‎"WOW... over 6,000 words grouped by phonics sounds. This app is awesome to teach phonic awareness!" One of the best ways to rapidly learn how to speak, read, and recognize words is through phonic awareness. This app is specifically designed to help students recognize and distinguish words by soun...

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Pirate Phonics offers fun and Phonics for kids who are just learning to read/recognise letters and simple CVC words. Pirate phonics uses the concept of a child’s dream about pirates as the theme of an educational game to develop skills in the basic phonics.

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Pirate Phonics teaches children the letter - sound correspondences that are essential in reading and writing. Developed with the same pirate theme as the other apps developed by Unit11, the app offers early lessons, wrapped in a fun package, which are important because will develop phonological skills that are necessary for blending and identifying sounds.

Educators and parents need to know that in the 'Settings' section they can turn the sounds effects on or off, unlock the islands or reset the game. There is also an 'Info' section where you'll see advertised the second app released by the developer with another 31 new phonics. Our recommendation for the developer is to always include a form of parental control to sections that can take the children out of the app.

Going to 'Extras' on the start screen will take them to a section that allows users to learn words related to individual phonics with an option to show or hide the phonic. If you don't want your kid to be distracted while learning this is the best feature for that purpose. But we believe kids learn quicker and their level of interest is higher if they're having a bit of fun while learning new things. And this is where Pirate Phonics 1 excels by packing the content in a fun story-game about pirates.

Children are told in the beginning that a treasure has been stolen by the pirate captain named Blackbeard and his crew while the two kids characters were sleeping. Your mission is to embark on an adventure and unlock all the clues in order to get the treasure back.

There are 5 islands: Bone, Cave, Ridgeback, SwordFish and Ghost. Each is focusing on different phonics spread as a route map across the respective islands. Kids will have to pass all the challenges set by the pirates in BlackBeards's gang to unlock new clues. The app is very elaborate in the sense that it has so many small challenges for each phonic sound. The developer says the app 'has been designed to support the first stages of phonic learning over an extended period' and we couldn't agree more. Even though the attention of young learners is short Pirate Phonics 1 has a lot going for it and kids won't get bored - this is an app that kids will return to because of the numerous different challenges.

The narrator's voice is clear and the sounds produced are accurate. The background's sound theme of seagulls on seashore is pleasing and did not interfere when the narrator was sounding out the letters or words. The recordings will help to get across the correct sounds and can be easily accessed at all times by tapping on the 'ear' button on the top right corner on each challenge screen.

So once you tap on a letter you are asked to answer some questions that will prepare you for the final challenge. Each phonic sound is emphasised through the use of several 'picture words' which are deliberately read slowly by the narrator. The small games following were really fun and kids will love playing them. Our favourite challenges that asked you to identify the phonic sound were: tapping the crab, dragging different objects containing the phonic sound or to complete a word, matching cards showing the same phonic, tap the correct phonic in a line up to move the ship ahead of other ships and tap the fire button of a canon to shoot the ships with the correct phonic.

The app was very responsive at all times during the review and looks beautiful on the iPad. Children will use each island's map to navigate from one phonic to another. For each challenge they pass they'll receive coins and progress forward - eventually finding the treasure chest. Once a level has been unlocked children will be able to revisit the island and a specific phonic at any time. We would have liked to see a score for each level in order to compare results but this feature is not available at the moment - it could be something that the developer might consider. Also allowing multiple profiles will be an added benefit as educators or parents will be able to see individual progress. One other concern is that if kids do really badly on the tests for a phonic sound they will still progress to the next one - a score is shown at the end with how many correct, wrong and missed answers the child managed to solve. It is sometimes common with apps for young kids in order to encourage them, but as we said above, not being able to check the previous scores proves tricky to understand on what areas kids need a bit more attention.

The app is extensive in its content and for £1.49 is a great buy. The whole app introduces more than 300 words and is targeted at pre-readers. Kids engage in repetition through games and this is a very effective strategy for memorising and retaining the sounds more easily.

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Read with Phonics is a colorful and interactive phonics based app that helps young people to learn synthetic phonics.

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Go on a reading adventure

Explore four exciting worlds and learn all your phonics sounds along the way! Join Albee the alien in his spaceship as you explore water world, forest world, lava land and jelly city! Albee will be with you every step of the way, cheering and celebrating with you for every correct answer!

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Explore four exciting worlds and learn all your phonics sounds along the way! Join Albee the alien in his spaceship as you explore water world, forest world, lava land and jelly city! Albee will be with you every step of the way, cheering and celebrating with you for every correct answer!

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This is an activity to help students working on making words with two consonant blends. Example: dr- with -agon = dragon

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Creating Words With Double Consonant Blends: Dribbling Dragons: | Consonant blends, Double consonants, Consonant

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Dec 10, 2013 - This is an activity to help students working on making words with two consonant blends. I created mats that have a two consonant blend on them and they must match parts of words that can create a word with the blends. Example: dr- with -agon = dragon If you like this activity please check out my tw...

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How To Teach Consonant Doubling -- Consonant Doubling Song

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How To Teach Consonant Doubling -- Consonant Doubling Song

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An easy song to help students learn when to double the consonant in a verb or adjective when adding the suffixes -ed, -ing, -er or -est and -y.

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How To Teach Consonant Doubling -- Consonant Doubling Song

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Double the Last Consonant Spelling Rule Song

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Double the Last Consonant Spelling Rule Song

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If a one syllable word ends with a short vowel followed by a consonant double the last letter before adding the suffixes 'ing' and 'ed'

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Double the Last Consonant Spelling Rule Song