These open-ended cards allow students to identify various graphemes that make the same sound and sort words that contain each grapheme.
Students can use concrete materials and weekly spelling words to reinforce their understanding of encoding words and see the relationship between written and spoken sounds. They can be used over and over to make spelling fun!
Included:
ai, ay, a_e, a, ey, ea, eigh, aigh
ee, ea, e_e, ey, e, y
ie, igh, i_e, i, y
ow, oa, o_e, oe
ew, ue, u_e, oo, oe, ough
oy, oi, ow, ou
er, ir, ur, ear, or
oo, oo, a, ar
or, ore, oor, aw, al, ough
air, are, ear
ear, eer, j, g, ge, dge
ch, tch
Each card prints out A4 in size.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words (ACELA1458)
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound (ACELA1459)
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns (ACELA1778)
Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes to create word families (ACELA1455)
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words (ACELA1471)
Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations (ACELA1825)