Spelling #1 Beginning Consonant Clusters LS1 Helpful Hints for Parents

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Beginning consonant clusters LS1 Ending consonant clusters that you hear each sound LS2

Helpful hints for parents: A consonant Helpful hints for parents: A consonant is a letter that is not a vowel. A group of is a letter that is not a vowel. A group of two or three consonants is a consonant two or three consonants is a consonant cluster. You can usually hear each cluster. You can hear each sound in a sound in a consonant cluster. consonant cluster at the end of a word.

1. drift 1. cloud 2. camp 2. floor 3. bend 3. glass 4. kept 4. splash 5. belt 5. slam 6. ant 6. prank 7. card 7. throne

8. spring 8. bark 9. ask 9. spark 10. gasp 10. swift

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Ending consonant clusters patterns SP2 Phonograms- short vowels SP1

Helpful hints for parents: A consonant Helpful hints for parents: Some words is a letter that is not a vowel. A group of have a short vowel pattern. You can two or three consonants is a consonant hear the short vowel sound (man, best, cluster. Some words have patterns that pick, not, nut). end with consonant clusters (mask, lump…).

1. skunk 2. cram 1. grand 3. thing 2. stand 4. spell 3. fish 5. black 4. crash 6. wish 5. stump 7. bump 6. pump 8. plan 7. bank 9. slip 8. chunk 10. spun 9. risk 10. mask

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Double vowels and double consonants Ending consonant clusters that make SP4, WS2 only one sound LS3

Helpful hints for parents: Some words have double vowels followed by a consonant. Sometimes vowels sound Helpful hints for parents: A consonant like their name (have a long sound). is a letter that is not a vowel. A group of two or three consonants is a consonant Some words have double consonants. cluster. Some words have consonant Divide the syllables between the clusters at the end that make only one consonants when a word has two similar sound. consonants in the middle (run-ning, bet- ter).

1. groom 1. tough

2. reel 2. change

3. kneel 3. watch

4. weep 4. lock

5. troop 5. rich

6. puddle 6. sing

7. hidden 7. bath

8. zipper 8. ledge

9. wiggle 9. stock

10. letter 10. swing

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High frequency words HF1, HF2 Long vowel sounds Sp3

Helpful hints for parents: you see some Helpful hints for parents: Some words words many times when you read. have a long vowel pattern. You can Some have three or more letters. hear the long vowel sound (make, Words you see a lot are important green, pie, coat, few). because they help you read and write. Y is a letter that sometimes makes a vowel sound. Y can sound like a long e or a long i. 1. could 2. would 3. though

4. about 1. train

5. because 2. stain

6. before 3. rain

7. caught 4. rage

8. brought 5. wage

9. should 6. why

10. while 7. spy

8. family

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Spelling #9 Contractions WS1 Unique vowel sounds SP6

Helpful hints for parents: To make a Helpful hints for parents: Some words contraction, put two words together and have patterns with vowels that make leave out a letter or letters. Write an the u sound as in moon. Several apostrophe where the letter(s) are left patterns of letters can stand for the long out. u sound (tune, suit, soup).

1. they’re 1. suit 2. we’re 2. grew 3. you’re 3. roof 4. here’s 4. blue 5. it’s 5. school 6. he’s 6. juice 7. I’d (remember the I is 7. new capitalized) 8. proof 8. she’d 9. bloom 9. you’ll 10. scoot 10. we’ll *Students choose an addition five *Students choose an addition five vocabulary they learned recently during vocabulary they learned recently during their reading group to their spelling list. their reading group to their spelling list.

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