Prefix re- Word Search
Do it again. That is the entire meaning of re-, and it makes this the most predictable prefix in English. MAKE becomes REMAKE. READ becomes REREAD. A child who can read the base word can read the re- word, define…
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Free Printable word searches for all
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Free Printable word searches for all
Category Core Phonics
Long a: ai and ay Words Word Search
In CVC words the letter a makes its short sound — cat, hat, map. But English has another a: the long a, where the vowel says its own name. The catch is that this one sound has several spellings, and…
Diphthongs: ou and ow Words Word Search
This puzzle is built around the sound you make when you stub your toe. OW! It hides in LOUD, jumps out of COW, and echoes through HOUSE, MOUSE and TOWN — and English, being English, spells it two different ways.…
Words Ending in -ng and -nk Word Search
Hum the end of the word RING with a hand on your throat. Feel where it buzzes — right at the back, almost in the throat itself. The -ng sound is made further back in the mouth than nearly any…
Long i: igh and y Words Word Search
Three letters to make one sound. That is what igh asks children to accept — and it is a big ask. After learning that most sounds need one or two letters, the igh trigraph feels like overkill. But it lives…
Words Ending in -le Word Search
TABLE. APPLE. PUZZLE. For the first time in this series, every word has two syllables — and a child who can read these fifteen words has crossed into genuinely grown-up territory: multi-syllable reading, with one of the most common endings…
Long o: oa and ow Words Word Search
The ow spelling has a split personality. In SNOW it says long o; in COW it says “ow!” as in ouch. Children need both eventually — and the simplest way to keep them apart is to teach each sound in…
Adding -ing (No Spelling Change) Word Search
JUMP becomes JUMPING. PLAY becomes PLAYING. For the first time in this series, children are not learning new words — they are watching words they already own grow. Suffixes have arrived, and the -ing suffix is the friendliest possible introduction.…