Here is a “cheat sheet” of sorts to help you help your child with marking up words in
Fundations. Please use this to help your child with the weekly dictations. Marking
up words counts for a small portion of the grade on our spelling tests!
Underline digraphs
shop
bath
duck
Star the bonus letters
ball
puff
fill
kiss
Box the glued (welded) sounds
ball
ham fan ring pink
Underline the base word, circle the suffix
bugs
hills
cans
Underline each sound in a blend
flash
stump
Mark closed syllable
scrap
Mark vowel-consonant-e syllable
cat
elf
c
c
bake stone
v-e
v-e