Use consonant blends to complete the words missing their ending letters. Fill in the missing consonants and connect the words to their matching pictures.
When adding an inflected ending to a word with a final /e/, there are rules to follow. Use this resource with your students to practice dropping the -e before adding the inflected ending.
Help your students develop their spelling skills by using association. Students will practice reading and sorting word family words in this fun cut-and-paste activity page.
Make learning word families easy for your child with this cut and paste -am word worksheet. Practice rhyming with your 1st grader for extra vocabulary practice.
What does a unicorn and an eagle have in common? A long vowel! Help your students practice sorting the long vowel sounds using this picture sort activity page.
The words on this first grade reading worksheet are not complete. Kids choose the correct ending blends from the boxes and write them to complete the words.
Have your students mastered vowel digraph spelling patterns? It's time to find out! Use this assessment to check your students’ abilities to read words with vowel digraphs.
Throughout the English language, spelling patterns exist. These patterns are tricky for a child to spot at first. Fortunately, teaching spelling patterns is a lot easier with Education.com’s worksheets, in addition to activity and game ideas. Shine a light on words with similar spelling for your students, and reinforce that new knowledge with a learning environment that keeps education entertaining.
Resources on Special Spelling Patterns
Spelling has rules, but those rules are often broken. Luckily, certain spelling patterns exist that make practice easier. The Learning Library contains specially crafted spelling pattern resources for all elementary grade levels as well as prep lessons for preschoolers. There are hundreds of printable worksheets, lesson plans, and engaging online games for base members. Premium members can access additional tools such as printable workbooks and guided lessons.
Some of the enticing online games focus on phonics, such as Bossy R Words, which helps second graders understand how short vowel sounds can drastically change when connected to an R. Another game facilitates consonant clusters practice, which can be slightly more confusing than vowel sounds.
There are plenty of skills-based practice worksheets, too. Many of the printable worksheets center on specific word beginnings such as ""ch"" or ""wh"" or endings such as ""–ed and ""–ing."" Practical assignments for older students examine tricky spellings and confusing homophones. The library also includes a variety of carefully organized lesson plans that give educators step-by-step instructions for a comprehensive teaching experience. Some lesson plans break down parts of words like onset (the letters before a vowel) and rime (everything that follows) to teach rhyming. Other assignments consider irregularly spelled words or blending sounds.
There are many other spelling pattern tricks found in the Learning Library that kids can keep in their back pocket for when they come across new complicated words.
