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Consonant Blends / The Letter S / Phonics Mind Map

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Digraphs | Phonics Song for Children | Phonemic Awareness | Jack Hartmann

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When 2 Vowels Go Walking | Phonics Song for Kids | Jack Hartmann

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Look Out for Bossy R | Fun Phonics Song for Kids | English Song for Children | Jack Hartmann

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Workout With The Word Families 1 | Word Family Song | Jack Hartmann

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Award-winning reading solution with thousands of leveled readers, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments to teach guided reading, reading proficiency and comprehension to K-5 students

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Award-winning reading solution with thousands of leveled readers, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments to teach guided reading, reading proficiency and comprehension to K-5 students

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Fantasy (fiction), Decodable

When two vowels combine to make one sound, it is called a digraph. Long /e/ digraphs can be tricky. They can be written as ee as in seem, ea as in dream, or ie as in field. It can be challenging for children to recognize and spell digraphs because they must recognize the two letters together, rather than recognize a one-sound, one-letter correspondence. There are also times when the ea digraph does not make a long /e/ vowel sound, as in feather.

Please note: Vowel digraphs are often open vowels, as in bee and flea.

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Fantasy (fiction), Decodable When two vowels combine to make one sound, it is called a digraph. Long /e/ digraphs can be tricky. They can be written as ee as in seem, ea as in dream, or ie as in field.

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the bossy r: how the r controlled vowels came to be

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juvenile nonfiction / language arts / vocabulary & spelling

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juvenile nonfiction / language arts / vocabulary & spelling

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The Bossy r: How the r Controlled Vowels Came to Be

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The Bossy r: How the r Controlled Vowels Came to Be [Hecht, Lynell, Hecht, Alessyn, Bullard, Mike] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Bossy r: How the r Controlled Vowels Came to Be

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Realistic (fiction), Decodable

Word families, or rimes, consist of a vowel and final consonant(s) that produce a pattern of sound that rhymes. The use of word-families provides students with an opportunity to analyze the patterns of sounds within words and parts of an entire word [such as rimes--vowel and following consonants, and onsets--consonant(s) preceding the rime]. Recognizing word families can assist students with decoding words more fluently.

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Realistic (fiction), Decodable Word families, or rimes, consist of a vowel and final consonant(s) that produce a pattern of sound that rhymes. The use of word-families provides students with an opportunity to analyze the patterns of sounds within words and parts of an entire word [such as rimes--vowel and following consonants, and onsets--consonant(s) preceding the rime].

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Challenge your little speller to hone her reading skills with a fun spelling game. This one focuses on words with beginning blends. A consonant blend occurs when two consonants appear next to each other and make both letter sounds, blended together (br, st, sp). This type of sound is different than a digraph sound (sh, th, ph). For each word, most of the spelling has been completed. It's up to you to figure out the two consonants that blend together to complete each word. Let's start word-building!

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Spelling blends words can be an important skill to build for early readers. Practice sounding out the letters by filling in the blank spots.

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Looking to learn digraphs? Get silly with this game that makes a big, fluffy monster jump in the puddle containing the word with the correct ending.

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Make a splash in digraphs with this game that challenges kids to hop in the puddle containing the correct picture.

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Roly is hungry for vowel pair words. In this fast-paced game, kids must make words with common vowel teams to get Roly the food he needs, but they have to hurry because the clock is ticking! Perfect for spelling simple words and practicing homophones, this game is so fun that kids won't even realize how much they're learning.

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Vowel Pairs Spelling | Game | Education.com

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Roly is hungry for vowel pair words. In this fast-paced game, kids must make words with common vowel teams to get Roly the food he needs, but they have to hurry because the clock is ticking! Perfect for spelling simple words and practicing homophones, this game is so fun that kids won't even realize how much they're learning.

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This bossy R words spelling game asks students to fix bridges by creating words. Students drag and drop letters to correctly complete words with r-controlled vowels, such as "nurse" and "fern." Learning spelling patterns and letter sound relationships builds strong reading and writing skills, which is especially important for students in the second grade who are being introduced to more complex words.

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Bossy R Words Spelling | Game | Education.com

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Bossy R words can be tough to sound out, thanks to r-controlled vowel sounds. Kids practicing spelling these words in this interactive game.

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Word families in this exercise will end in "-ike" or "-ite." Working on these specific sounds will help your child master these spellings, and get some practice with long vowel words. Listen to the word aloud, and then choose the correct word below, using the pictures to help. Try sounding out the letters, or click on the question mark for a hint! Word family practice is a great way to help kids with letter-sound correspondence, as well as give them a chance to memorize letter shapes.

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Word Families: -ike, -ite | Game | Education.com

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Word families in this exercise will end in "-ike" or "-ite." Working on these specific sounds will help your child master these spellings, and get some practice with long vowel words. Listen to the word aloud, and then choose the correct word below, using the pictures to help.