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Spelling rules for ch, tch, ck, k, oi, oy, ou, ow, ie, ei

Spelling rules - i before e except after c, exceptions, c sounds like sh, ei sounds like long a, ei sounds like short e for reading lessons

Spelling words in English is not as easy as ABC. It involves learning letter sounds and rules for blending them, forming words and changing their meaning to fit into sentences. A learner must read a lot of books, articles, newspapers and magazines written in English to get familiar with these …

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Spell words easier with lists of 4 grapheme types

Grapheme

Learning to spell red, head and said can be made easy when you know what is a phoneme and a grapheme. Phoneme is the smallest sound you hear in a word and grapheme is the letter or letters used to represent the phoneme in writing. The graphemes e, ea and …

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KEY ending words: Learn to spell with word list

KEY ending

KEY ending is found in many words in the English language. Words with 2 syllables have KEY ending in the second part of the word as in ‘monkey’. Having a word list with KEY ending makes learning to spell these words and their meanings easier. The word list below contains …

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