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Snow Showers Short Vowel Sorting

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Today, I’m sharing another snow-themed activity that ALuv {age 6} and I did together. You can see our other short vowel snow-themed freebie here. *This post contains affiliate links.   Short Vowel Sorting with Snow! This pack contains TWO levels of sorting fun: 1- simple, CVC short vowel words like rat, hug, & men and 2- longer short vowel words…
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More FREE Short Vowel Printables: Snow-Theme

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Here are some more snowy printables that I created and used with ALuv this week to review the short vowels, blends and digraphs.  I have a couple more snowy day printables that I’ll post on Monday. The first one is Building a Short Vowel Snowman.  These short vowel snowmen contain words with blends and digraphs. building the word shell building stem The second…
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Short Vowel Build-a-Snowman {FREEBIE}

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Here is a NEW snow-themed activity that we did this week. It’s called Short Vowel Build-a-Snowman and it uses pictures and works on reviewing short vowel sounds in words. The pictures included are CVC words and words that are a little more complicated with blends and digraphs, like flag or fish. The free download link can be found at the…
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Reading with Word Family Chunks

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Have you ever heard of reading words by word family chunks? It’s actually a very powerful way to help kids read (and spell) new words! Actually, this doesn’t just apply to word family chunks, all kinds of other chunks, like vowel teams and digraphs. You can find lots of chunking practice pages in our Color the Chunk Phonics pages collection….
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Winter, Snow & Snowmen Links

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It’s here.  Winter!  If your weather is anything like ours, it’s been C.O.L.D.! Here are a few winter/snow links I’ve found online.  These are mainly links for NJoy (3 years old), but I have a few for ALuv (6 years) as well.  We may or may not get to all of these, but I get teacher bumps (goose bumps) just looking…
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