96 Spelling Tiles

Along with the first 70 spellings in the English code, this pack includes less common spellings and common affixes.

These tiles are great for building skills in encoding and to demonstrate the fact that differences in spellings of sound aids in making meaning to increase comprehension.

During auditory drill, the teacher vocalizes the /oa/ sound and the students find all of the spelling tiles of /oa/: “ow”, “o”, “oa”, “oe”, “ough”, “o_e”, etc.

Teachers can demonstrate a word sort of words with the same sound, but different spellings. The tiles can be used as column headings while the students write the words under the correct spelling for that word.

The tile “e” in gray font is to be used when representing “silent e” (we don’t encourage teaching a limited use of silent e for “magic e” or “mommy e”)

1) VCe words (examples: tape, fine)

2) plural canceling (examples: goose, tease)

3) use with soft “c” and soft “g” (fence, range)

4) prevent words ending in “v”, “u” “i”(love, due, tie)

5)  “le” ending (table, maple, bottle)

6) indicate voiced /th/ sound (bathe, clothe, breathe)

7) differentiate meaning “by” vs “bye”

The “qu” tile is for space saving and for helping students learn that q and u are almost always used together. Teacher should still encourage young spellers to listen for the two sounds /k/ /w/ represented by “qu”.