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Middle sound a: Download free worksheet, trace, colour and fill

Middle sound a

This free worksheet helps children to identify the middle sound a in words. Each word can be traced, has a picture to colour, and a space to fill in the middle sound a. Click the link or image to download worksheet to start tracing, colouring and writing. Let the fun …

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AIN words: Learn to spell with rime word list

AIN words

AIN is a rime in the English language. There are many words that begin with an onset made up of one consonant as in ‘gain’ or blends from 2 to 5 consonants, and then end with the rime AIN as in ‘grain’, ‘sprain’, ‘contain’ and ‘mountain’. Having a word list …

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Paw, pore, poor and pour: Spot the homophones

Poor and pour. Brown pet paw

By Joyanne James. Do you know the difference between the sounds of the words paw, pore, poor and pour? These four words are homophones in some varieties of English such as in Caribbean countries. In other varieties, only pore, poor and pour have the same sound. This fun activity should …

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EAR words: Learn trigraph list with homophone guide

EAR words

EAR is a trigraph as it has 3 letters with one sound. Having a word list with EAR makes learning to spell these words and their meanings easier. It is important to know that a lot of EAR words sound the same as other words with different spellings as in …

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EED words: Learn to spell with word list

EED words

EED is a rime in the English language. Words with one syllable that end with the rime EED begin with an onset made up of one consonant as in ‘feed’, or blends with two consonants as in ‘freed’. There are also words with 2 syllables with EED in the second …

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