What Is This Situation? Rhyming is one of the first ways children learn about sounds. When words rhyme, they share the same ending sound. Cat and bat ...
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What Is This Situation? Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. Like "see" and "sea." Or "ate" and "eight. ...
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What Is This Situation? The Fry sight words list is one of the most important tools for beginning readers. The first 100 words are the most common wor ...
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What Is This Situation? The Dolch sight words list is a famous collection of words that appear most often in English books. There are 220 words. They ...
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What Is This Situation? Sight words are words that children should recognize instantly. They are the most common words in English. Words like "the," " ...
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What Is This Situation? Most English words follow phonics rules. But some do not. They are tricky words. They do not sound the way they look. Words li ...
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What Is This Situation? After children learn CVC words like cat and dog, they are ready for longer words. CCVC words have four sounds: consonant-conso ...
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What Is This Situation? CVC words are the first words children learn to read. CVC stands for consonant-vowel-consonant. Words like cat, dog, and sun. ...
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What Is This Situation? Blending is the heart of reading. It is putting sounds together to make a word. C-a-t becomes cat. S-u-n becomes sun. When a c ...
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What Is This Situation? Word families are groups of words that share the same ending sound. They help children read and spell. When you know one word, ...
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What Is This Situation? OO is a tricky vowel team. It can make two different sounds. The short OO sound is like in book and foot. The long OO sound is ...
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What Is This Situation? EA and EE make the same sound. Both say the long E sound, like in eat and see. They are common vowel teams. Knowing when to us ...
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