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OO Stories: Discover the sounds in food, book, door and flood

OO Stories

OO Stories is filled with words that have OO representing four different sounds. It is a digraph in most words but not those with “oor” as in “floor” which is a trigraph. This fun book of OO stories is useful for story time, spelling improvement classes, poetry sessions, phonological and …

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OU Stories: Have fun with words mouse, group, dough, tough, pour

OU Stories

OU Stories is a magnificent rhyming book that goes beyond the “trout soup” lesson. The book explores numerous words that contain OU in them as a digraph “group”, trigraph “pour”, tetragraph “dough”, suffix “famous” and lots more. This fun book of OU stories is useful for story time, spelling improvement …

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IE Stories: Strengthen your spelling, grammar and reading skills

IE Stories

IE Stories is an awesome book of rhymes that can strengthen your spelling, grammar and reading skills fast. This book explores a number of words with IE used differently in several short stories. Readers see IE at the end of words as in “genie” and tie”. It is seen as …

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EY Stories: What a terrific way to improve spelling skills!

EY Stories

EY Stories is a terrific book to improve spelling skills since EY makes both the long “a” and long “e” sound in words as in “they” and “key”. Stories are entertaining and suitable for anyone who enjoys rhymes. Use this fun book for story time, spelling improvement classes, poetry sessions, …

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EI Stories: An excellent book for learning difficult English words

EI Stories

When it comes to learning difficult English words, EI Stories is an excellent resource. This book explores words that follow the rule “i before e except after c” as in “field” and “receive”. Also, readers see entire stories with exceptions to the rule as in “ei” sounding like long “a” …

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