• Simple three letter words (consonant-short vowel-consonant)

• Words that start with or end in 2 or 3 letters that we always see grouped together (initial and final consonant blends).

Examples of Consonant Blends

• Two (2) consonants are combined together to form only one sound (consonant digraphs and digraph-consonant blends).

• Double consonants.

• Plurals.

Singular and plural

Types of plurals 1

Types of plurals 2

Choose the correct plural activitiy

The Plural Girls game

•  Words of many syllables (Simple multisyllabic words).

List of multisyllable words

Multisyllabic Words activity

• Long vowel sounds.

• Two (2) vowels that make one sound or two (2) vowel sounds in one syllable. (Avowel digraph has two vowels that make one sound. A diphthong is two vowel sounds in one syllable.)

Two vowels together

Digraph definition

• Vowels before “r”.

• Silent consonat

Words with silent letters
Silent letters

Silent letter words

• Soft consonant sounds.

Hard and soft consonants

• Verb endings.

Verbs ending in -ize, -ise, -yze, and -yse

Click on the words to see the past, present or future tense

• Harder Plurals.

Plural rules

Unusual plurals

10 Things you should know about plurals

• Prefixes.

Prefixes

• Suffixes.

Suffixes

• Prefix and suffix in the same word.

Suffixes and Prefixes

Chart of prefixes and suffixes

Prefixes and suffixes

Prefixes and suffixes video

Root words, Prefixes and Suffixes

• Compound words.

What makes a compound word activity

Compound word lists

Compound word list A to W

• Homophones and commonly confused words.

Homophones–Words with the Same Sounds

Confusing words

Irregular spelling