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EE Stories: A brilliant way to improve spelling skills

EE Stories

EE Stories is a brilliant way to explore many words with EE in them and improve spelling skills. Learn words like “meet”, “beer”, “seen”, and “been” in the right context, which have the homophones “meat”, “bear”, “scene”, and “bin”. This fun book of EE stories is useful for story time, …

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Consonants – digraphs, trigraphs, hard, soft, blends, silent sounds

Consonants - sh sounds, chef, passion, sugar, ocean, official, precious

Consonants are the letters of the alphabet other than the vowels a e i o u. The ones in the English alphabet are b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z. In English, some consonants are very …

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Vowels: A simple guide on sounds, long, short, silent, digraphs, trigraphs

Vowels, short, long, silent, exceptions for reading lessons

Vowels in the English alphabet are a e i o u and sometimes y. Each of these letters represents two sounds, long and short, and have been the basis for learning to read for a long time despite the complexities of the written English language. As reading methods evolve, phonics …

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