Below you’ll find links to each of our word lists for kids, broken out by letters of the alphabet. The lists you’ll find are designed to copy and paste into various activities you might be creating for your classroom or at home. We’ve also written a short narrative story before…
Welcome to our 5 Letter Words section! We put this together to help young students to focus on some of the more challenging words, after they have mastered other lists like the Dolch sight words lists and CVC words. Clicking on each letter listed below, you’ll find a printable word…
As readers grow, they are able to access and understand more complex language. After achieving success with letter sound correspondence, young readers should begin with the process of blending sounds in monosyllabic (single syllable) words. After that, readers can graduate to learning words that contain consonant blends, which are two…
Letter sound correspondence refers to the relationship between letters and the sounds they make. Letter sound correspondence is, without a doubt, an essential part of developing literacy skills. Through alphabet study and phonemic awareness, readers can make connections between what letters look like and how they sound. As readers grow…
A phoneme is a distinct unit of sound. Phoneme segmentation is a worthy practice that can aid a young reader’s ability to become a proficient and confident reader and writer. By understanding and practicing phoneme segmentation, early readers can break down (segment) words into individual sounds or phonemes, which helps…
Digraphs are pairs of letters that work together to create unique sounds. Understanding digraphs is an important part of a young reader’s reading journey since it allows them to see how two letters can work together to make a single sound. These digraph duos make sounds that appear frequently in…
Magic E words are used in teaching phonics to describe a word that has a vowel followed by a consonant and then a silent E at the end (e.g, “tape). The silent E, or “magic E,” often changes the pronunciation of the preceding vowel from a short sound to a…
Welcome to our page all about diphthongs! As you read along, you’ll learn about identifying diphthongs, the importance of this skill during early reading years, and you’ll find some printable diphthongs worksheets for your students. To begin, a diphthong is a spelling pattern in which two vowels together make a…
Welcome to our page on short vowels! Hopefully by the end of this article, you will have an understanding of the concept of short vowel sounds, why this skill is important to early readers and find some short vowel worksheets to practice with your learner. There are around twenty different…
Here, you’ll learn about the role consonants play in the alphabetic principle and why this is an important skill for students. You’ll also find some printable consonants worksheets to practice with your young ones! Consonants are the letters and sounds of the alphabet that can be combined with vowels to…