Are you looking for no-prep phonics activities to consolidate high frequency words with tricky spellings? These heart word mapping mats will help your students to use orthographic mapping with heart words - these are words with tricky or irregular spellings.
With each of these heart word mapping mats, students will:
Trace the word
Tap the sounds
Map the word
Find the word
Write the word
Simply place in write and wipe mats to use over and over again to consolidate high-frequency word knowledge.
Black and white templates are also included - use as consolidation worksheets.
20 high-frequency words with tricky spellings (heart words) are included:
I
a
was
the
to
are
of
you
see
for
is
as
has
his
look
good
said
he
she
they
Heart Words are words with a tricky part which we have to learn by heart. These ‘tricky parts’ are either irregular/rare spellings, OR spelling patterns that have not yet been taught.
5 high-frequency decodable flash words are also included:
that
with
when
this
from
Flash words are high-frequency words with regular spellings. These words can be easily sounded out (decoded) but we want students to know these words ‘in a flash’.
By using the alphabetic code to identify the different graphemes, students will be able to understand how to spell all words on the high-frequency words list of any phonics or spelling program
Please note: this resource has been created from an Australian accent.