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Adding able to base words
Adding ance and ence to base words
Adding ed or ing, doubling letters
Adding ed or ing, no change
Adding ed or ing, words ending in e
Adding ed, no change
Adding ed, words ending in e
Adding final letters
Adding ing, no change
Adding ing, words ending in a consonant
Adding ing, words ending in e
Adding ing, words ending in e or y
Adding initial letters
Adding ion or ation to base words
Adding ion to base words
Adding the suffix ary
Adding the suffix ed
Adding the suffix ion
Adding the suffix ly
Adding the suffixes able and ible
Adding vowels
Adjectives and nouns, ance or ant endings
American words and spelling
Anagrams
Assimilated or absorbed prefixes
Base word plus prefix
Base word plus suffix
Base words
Base words, adding ed
Base words, adding ing
Bigger or smaller?
Change of meaning by stress
Changing meaning by changing letters
Changing words
Comparisons
Complex consonant groups, ch andt tch
Complex consonant groups, ch and tch,
dge and ge
Complex consonant groups, dge and ck
Complex consonant groups, ght, nce and nch
Complex consonant groups, th and sh
Compound words
Consonant blends
Consonant groups, ph and gh as an f sound
Contractions
Crosswords
Double consonants
Doubling with absorbed prefixes
Doubling, adding ed
Doubling, adding ing
Elements of meaning
Final unstressed syllables, al, il and ile
Final unstressed syllables, ar and or
Final unstressed syllables, el and le
Final unstressed syllables, et and it
Final unstressed syllables, il and al
Final unstressed syllables, le and el
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Food names
Foreign words and phrases
Forming adjectives
Forming nouns
Greek root words
Hard and soft c
Hard and soft g
Hard and soft g and c
Homographs
Homophones
Initial consonant blends
Internal double consonants
Jumbled letters
Latin root words
Letter patterns
Letter patterns, ay and oy
Letter patterns, sh sounds
Long a sound patterns
Long and short e sound patterns
Long and short i sound patterns
Long and short o sound patterns
Long and short u sound patterns
Long e sound patterns
Long i sound patterns
Long o sound patterns
Long u sound patterns
Long vowel sound to schwa
Long vowel sounds
More than one, adding s
Number prefixes
Old English root words
Origin of words
Parts of speech, adjectives
Parts of speech, nouns
Past tense verbs
Past tense, irregular verbs
Past tense, regular verbs
Plurals, adding es
Plurals, adding s
Plurals, adding s or changing the spelling
Plurals, adding s or es
Plurals, complete change or none
Plurals, words ending in ay, ey, and oy
Plurals, words ending in f or fe
Plurals, words ending in f, fe or o
Plurals, words ending in o, f, or fe
Plurals, words ending in s, ss and x
Plurals, words ending in s, ss, x and z
Plurals, words ending in sh and ch
Plurals, words ending in y
Plurals, words ending in y and words that
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Portmanteau words
Possessives
Prefixes
Problem words
Proper nouns and adjectives
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Sound patterns, oi, oy and ei
r-Influenced vowels, ar and or
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Sound patterns, oo
r-influenced vowels, er
Sound patterns, oo and oa
r-Influenced vowels, er, ear, eer
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Sound patterns, oo and oi
r-Influenced vowels, er, ir and ur
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Sound patterns, or
r-Influenced vowels, ir, ire
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Sound patterns, or and oa
r-influenced vowels, or
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Sound patterns, or and ow
r-Influenced vowels, or, ore, our, oar
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Sound patterns, ou
r-Influenced vowels, ur
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Sound patterns, ou and ur
Root words
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Sound patterns, ow
Short a sound
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Sound patterns, ph
Short a sound patterns
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Sound patterns, qu and gh
Short and long words
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Sound patterns, scr, sr, spr, shr
Short e sound
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Sound patterns, sh
Short e sound patterns
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Sound patterns, th and wh
Short i sound
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Sound patterns, ur and ow
Short i sound patterns
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Sound patterns, vowels
Short o sound
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Sound patterns, y
Short o sound patterns
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Sound patterns, y as a long i sound
Short u sound
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Sounds and symbols, b and g
Short u sound patterns
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Sounds and symbols, d and c
Shortened words
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Sounds and symbols, h and f
Silent letters
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Sounds and symbols, j and l
Sound patterns, a
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Sounds and symbols, m and n
Sound patterns, ai
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Sounds and symbols, p and r
Sound patterns, ai and ie
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Suffixes
Sound patterns, ar
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Suffixes, ly
Sound patterns, ar, ai and ay
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Syllables
Sound patterns, ar, or and er
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The alphabet
Sound patterns, ary
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Tricky words
Sound patterns, au and aw
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Vowel alternations
Sound patterns, au and oi
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Vowel alternations, short to long
Sound patterns, au and ou
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Vowel sounds, a
Sound patterns, aw and au
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Vowel sounds, e
Sound patterns, ch
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Vowel sounds, i
Sound patterns, ch and sh
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Vowel sounds, o
Sound patterns, ch, sh and ck
Vowel sounds, u
Sound patterns, ch, sh, th, sq
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What do they mean?
Sound patterns, ck
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Where animal names come from
Sound patterns, ck and qu
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Word building, adding letters
Sound patterns, ea
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Word building, changing letters
Sound patterns, ea
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Word building, codes
Sound patterns, ee
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Word building, initial letters
Sound patterns, ee and oa
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Word building, word pieces
Sound patterns, ee and oo
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Word building, word sums
Sound patterns, ei and ie
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Word endings
Sound patterns, er
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Word endings
Sound patterns, ery and ory
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Word endings, all and y
Sound patterns, g as a j sound
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Word endings, ure
Sound patterns, ir and ur
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Word families
Sound patterns, long and short ea
Word grids
Sound patterns, long and short oo
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Word groups
Sound patterns, oa
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Word puzzle
Sound patterns, oa
Word search
Sound patterns, oa and ou
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Words from the past
Sound patterns, oa, oi and oy
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Words we often confuse
Sound patterns, oi and oy
Writing in code
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