Magic E / Split Digraph: i_e Words Word Search
If your class has already met the magic E in CAKE and MAKE, the i_e pattern will feel like meeting an old friend in new clothes. The silent E still does the same job — it reaches back and makes…
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Category Core Phonics
Drop the e Before -ing and -ed Word Search
MAKE has a silent E — children learned that back in the magic E puzzles. So what happens when -ing arrives? MAKEING looks wrong because it is wrong. The E steps aside, and MAKE becomes MAKING. It is the politest…
Magic E / Split Digraph: o_e Words Word Search
HOME is one of the first words children genuinely want to write — and one of the first where the magic E earns its keep. Without the silent E, HOME would be HOM, which is nobody’s home at all. The…
Comparatives: Adding -er and -est Word Search
Who is bigger? Who is fastest? Whose tower is tallest? Children run on comparisons — playgrounds are basically -er and -est tournaments with snacks. This puzzle takes the suffixes children already argue with and shows them the spelling underneath. This…
Magic E / Split Digraph: u_e Words Word Search
The magic E has one vowel left — and it saved the strangest for last. Long U has two voices: the “yoo” in CUBE and CUTE, and the plain “oo” in RULE and FLUTE. Same silent E, two correct sounds.…
The y to i Spelling Rule Word Search
BABY becomes BABIES. HAPPY becomes HAPPIER. CARRY becomes CARRIED. When a word ends in a consonant plus Y, the Y changes into an I before most suffixes — the only rule in this series where a letter doesn’t double or…
L Blends (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl) Word Search
Until now, every word children have decoded begins with one consonant sound: cat, ship, make. Consonant blends change the deal. In BLUE a child hears two sounds — /b/ and /l/ — arriving so close together they feel like one…
Plurals: Adding -s and -es Word Search
One cat, two cats — easy, add an S. One box, two… try saying “boxs”. Your mouth refuses. That refusal is the entire -es rule: some word endings physically cannot take a bare S, so English adds a syllable to…
R Blends (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr) Word Search
R blends are everywhere. You cannot describe a FROG, plan a TRIP, play a DRUM or catch a CRAB without one. Once children start noticing them, they find them in nearly every sentence they read — which is exactly why…
Irregular Plurals Word Search
Children spend weeks learning the plural rules — add S, add ES, change Y to I — and then English introduces them to the rule-breakers club. Mouse becomes MICE. Tooth becomes TEETH. Sheep becomes… SHEEP, smugly unchanged. No rule predicts…
Words Ending in -ck Word Search
Once children can blend three-letter CVC words confidently, the next small step is words ending in -ck. The sounds are the same — a short vowel followed by /k/ — but the spelling adds one quiet rule that will serve…
S Blends (sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw) Word Search
S blends are the largest blend family in English — and the most energetic. STEP, STOP, SPIN, SWIM, SNAP, SKIP: this is the vocabulary of the playground and the PE lesson, which makes it the easiest phonics pattern in the…