Simply put, vowel teams are important because students can’t read without them. They’re an important part of understanding how to break words into syllables (separating sailboat into “sail” and “boat” rather than “sa” “il” “bo” “at,” for example). Especially as students get ...
Words that have 10 letters are often called “vowel-rich” words. These include words such as banana, August, and October. Another word with a notable number of vowels is the sky, which has 11 vowel sounds. Strawberry Friendship Everything Appreciate Motivation What is a science word with 10...
I’m not the type of mom to purposefully let my kids win at games. However, my daughter quickly caught on that I had an unfair advantage in this game. “You spell every word right!” So I decided that when I rolled the numbers 4, 5, or 6 on the die, I would only advance 1, ...
One of the first activities I do when teaching a vowel digraph is to isolate that pattern in words with color coding. Provide students with a list of words with vowel teams and use a highlighter to trace the vowel team within the word. From there you can use a short decodable passage an...