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Phonological and phonemic awareness: Help a struggling reader with sounds

Phonological and phonemic awareness

When you listen to speakers of a foreign language that you do not understand, you hear a sequence of sounds that you perceive as gibberish. This is because you lack phonological and phonemic awareness of that language. A struggling reader of the English language faces a similar situation. While the …

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AI in words: 7 lists of rimes for spelling activities

AI in the rime

Learn to spell while having fun. This ultimate guide of words with AI in them can be used for classroom games, flashcards, posters, poetry and journaling. Get ready to make spelling fun. The words that include AI may contain digraphs, trigraphs and graphemes with 4 letters. Some of them are …

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Master spelling with 100-plus word lists and guide on syllable, onset, rime and rhyme

Spelling - syllables, onset, rime, rhyme

Spelling new words like though, thought, through, throughout, thorough and tough doesn’t have to be boring. Students can have fun spelling with our word lists of over 100 endings and guide on syllables, onset, rime and rhyme in many engaging ways. This simple spelling guide includes short explanations of the …

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Spell words easier with lists of 4 grapheme types

Grapheme

Learning to spell red, head and said can be made easy when you know what is a phoneme and a grapheme. Phoneme is the smallest sound you hear in a word and grapheme is the letter or letters used to represent the phoneme in writing. The graphemes e, ea and …

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EED words: Learn to spell with word list

EED words

EED is a rime in the English language. Words with one syllable that end with the rime EED begin with an onset made up of one consonant as in ‘feed’, or blends with two consonants as in ‘freed’. There are also words with 2 syllables with EED in the second …

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