Vowel Team Word Chains & Word Ladders
Grades 1-3 · Printable PDF · 43 pages · Instant digital download
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Are your students struggling with reading and spelling vowel teams? These vowel team word chains and ladders are perfect for improving students' fluency with common vowel teams. With these no-prep lists and worksheets, just print and use with your students during whole or small group lessons.
Why use word chains and ladders?
Word chains and ladders help students focus on individual phonemes and the graphemes that represent each phoneme, allowing for targeted practice in a specific skill. Students must segment, blend, and manipulate phonemes.
You can do the word chains oral with students who are focusing on phonemes instead of spelling, and you can also choose to use graphemes with the recording sheet and word ladders.
What's included:
- Includes word chains for the vowel teams: Long A (ai, ay), Long E (ee, ea), Long I (igh, ie), Long O (oa, ow), and OO.
- 175 words in total
- Recording sheet for students
- 11 word ladders, in black and white and color
- Answer keys
- Clickable table of contents
These are perfect to use as a warm up activity, for early finishers, during your main phonics lesson to support spelling or decoding, or in a literacy center after students have practiced the routine.
The best part? Your students will quickly learn how to complete word ladders and can practice on their own without your guidance!
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