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EE Stories: A brilliant way to improve spelling skills

EE Stories

EE Stories is a brilliant way to explore many words with EE in them and improve spelling skills. Learn words like “meet”, “beer”, “seen”, and “been” in the right context, which have the homophones “meat”, “bear”, “scene”, and “bin”. This fun book of EE stories is useful for story time, …

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Consonants – digraphs, trigraphs, hard, soft, blends, silent sounds

Consonants - sh sounds, chef, passion, sugar, ocean, official, precious

Consonants are the letters of the alphabet other than the vowels a e i o u. The ones in the English alphabet are b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z. In English, some consonants are very …

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Vowels: A simple guide on syllables, digraphs, diphthongs, trigraphs, long, short and silent

Vowels, short, long, silent, exceptions for reading lessons

Vowels in the English alphabet are a e i o u and sometimes y. The sounds of vowels can be represented by one, two, three and four letters. The teams that represent a single vowel sound also have the same sound as single letters. This is like the sound made …

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