Phoneme Grapheme Posters and Resources! Shortly after students learn the letters and sounds of the alphabet, we introduce the concept that many vowels and consonant sounds can be spelled in different ways. Let’s take the /f/ sound for example. Most of the time the /f/ sound is spelled with “f” as in the words “fan”, “fish” and “fix”. Sometimes the /f/ sound is spelled “ff” as in the words “cuff” and “off”; sometimes “gh” as in “tough” and sometimes “ph” as in “phone”. This can be pretty overwhelming for our young readers and writers. How do students know when to use which spelling for the sounds in the words they wish to write? Phoneme Mapping Let’s take the words “pin”

Teaching k/ck spelling rule can be fun When teaching k/ck spelling rule use these activities to make it fun and easy! The spelling rule for the final /k/ sound is as follows: When the /k/ sound is at the end of a word it can be spelled with either the letter “k”  or the letters “ck”. When the final /k/ sound is preceded by a vowel team or a diphthong (e.g. ou) it is spelled with a “k”. For example, the words “break”, “beak”, “seek” and “soak” all have a long vowel sound before the final /k/ sound and therefore is /k/ is spelled “k”. When the final /k/ sound is preceded by a short vowel, the sound is spelled

Teaching the doubling spelling rule If you’d like this free doubling spelling rule poster, just click the following link: Doubling Rule Poster Teaching the doubling spelling rule can be fun! It is one of the first rules we teach our young readers and writers. The doubling rule states that if a one syllable word ends with a vowel and a consonant, double the consonant before adding the ending (e.g. -ed, -ing). It’s often helpful to provide examples where this rule applies and where this rule does not apply. This file folder activity has your students decide if the word meets (or doesn’t meet) those criteria and if the doubling spelling rule would apply to the word. This file folder activity