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Decoding Test Clone

Decoding Test Clone

SOUND-SPELLING CARDS

Sound-Spelling Cards Full Page
Sound-Spelling Cards Two per Page

STRATEGIES

Additive Blending
Connected Phonation
Whole Word Blending
Reading Small Words
Reading Big Words
Reading Big Words with Affixes
Reading Big Words with Not Yet Decodable Pattern

Watch Strategies Activities in Action

Additive Blending

Connected Phonation

Whole Word Blending

Reading Big Words

DIGRAPHS & TRIGRAPHS ACTIVITIES

Words with ch
Words with ph
Words with sh
Words with tch
Words with th
Words with wh

LONG VOWELS ACTIVITIES

Long A spelled a
Long A spelled ai and ay (vowel teams)
Long A spelled a_e

Watch Long Vowels Activities in Action

Long Aa Spelled a_e

Long E spelled e
Long E spelled ee and ea (vowel teams)
Long I Spelled i
Long I spelled igh (vowel teams)
Long I Spelled i_e
Long O spelled o
Long O Spelled oa and ow (vowel teams)
Long O spelled o_e
Long and Short o (vowel teams)
Long U spelled u
Long U Spelled ue and ew (vowel teams).
Long U Spelled u_e
Final y Pronounced long I or long E

R CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES

R Controlled Vowels ar
R Controlled Vowels air-are-ear
R Controlled Vowels er-ir-ur
R Controlled Vowels or-oor-oar-ore

GLUED SOUNDS ACTIVITIES

Glued Sounds with ng
Glued Sounds with nk

DIPHTHONGS ACTIVITIES

Diphthongs oi-oy
Diphthongs ow-ou

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