Spelling Rules

I have created some hints within the letter shapes to help remind the students of words that make the same digraph sound.

The five sounds of ear, air, oar, er, are, on these R Controlled clip cards. Dual-colored spelling clip cards can be found HERE. Teaching bossy r can be easy to explain until you get to the trigraphs. Then the rules are gone and some students struggle with reading and spelling the homophones like: stair and … Continue reading "R-Controlled Clipcards Trigraphs"

Pairing up the right lessons with card games has given my struggling readers and spellers a great advantage.

I remind them to listen for the vowels. If it is a, o, u, use c. If it is e or i, use the k.

Which to use ck, ke, or k for the final k sound?
These visuals are another way to remind students to look and listen for the vowel sounds and names.