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Color the Chunk: Digraph Pages

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Today, I’m sharing our Color the Chunk Digraph Pages. They’re great for helping learners find and use word chunks to read words. Find all our free Color the Chunk Phonics Pages or grab our Color the Chunk Phonics Bundle! What is a Digraph? A digraph is two letters that make ONE sound. Digraphs can be formed with vowels (such as…
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Pumpkin Literacy Activities for K-3 Learners

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Looking for some pumpkin literacy activities for your K-3 learners? I’m preparing for a PUMPKIN DAY with my Kindergartner, 2nd grader, and 3rd grader. So I whipped up a few literacy activities for us to do together. If you’re looking for more science or social studies activities, you might like all the unit studies I’ve created so far {with more…
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Write the Missing Vowel Worksheets – CVC Words

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These simple missing vowel worksheets are a simple way to help learners listen for short vowel sounds in simple CVC words. Beginning and ending sounds are typically heard before vowel sounds, so if your learners aren’t ready for short vowels, yet, you may enjoy our Beginning Sound worksheets and Ending Sound worksheets!   *This post contains affiliate links. **The free…
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Alphabet Sounds Chart – with Letter Formation

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An alphabet sounds chart is a great resource for young readers and writers. I created it specifically for my Kindergartner. *This post contains affiliate links. **The free download can be found at the END of this post. Click on the teal download button.   Alphabet Sounds Chart After creating our numbers 1-20 chart, I got LOTS of requests for an…
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Analyzing Running Records with MSV

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In our series, we’ve talked about running records, shown you how to take running records, and now it’s time to talk about analyzing running records with MSV. Have you ever been frustrated when your reader(s) make mistakes? I know I have! But just like spelling mistakes can tell you more about your speller, reading mistakes give you tons of valuable information about…
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