Teaching Resource
Word Building Cards
A comprehensive set of phonemes and letter combinations to help your students build words.
Use this teaching resource to practice word building with phonemes with your students.
Ask your students to create sight words using the correct phonemes with this activity. We have also provided a sheet with 4 unique activities to do with this resource.
Containing 84 spelling combinations of phonemes, these cards will help your students develop their phonological awareness and grapheme/phoneme recognition.
Editable downloads are available for you to create word parts or syllables with these cards.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A
Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D
Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.D
Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.A
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.2.D
Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).

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