Reading Genres
Focus on solving a crime, often involving detectives and clues.
Mystery
These 5 sounds (sometimes 6) can have long and short sounds, depending on the word.
Vowels
understanding
3 syllables
This vowel sound is heard in the word cat.
Short a
Name the five digraphs with your eyes closed.
wh, ch, sh, th, ck
Feature magical, mythical or supernatural elements that take place in an imaginary world.
Fantasy
These are the 21 sounds of the English alphabet that are not vowels.
Consonants
fine
1 syllable
This consonant sound is heard that the end of bring.
g /g/
What is the name of the vowel sound in English that does not sound the way it should?
Examples: jacket, salad, lemon
The schwa sound
The story of a person's life that is written by someone else.
Biography
These word parts are made with "one breath". They can be "scooped" or "separated" using word marks. Two examples are closed and vowel consonant e.
Syllables
noncontradicted
5 syllables
This sound is a suffix in the word fizzes
es /iz/
Name the parts of speech in order that:
describe someone or something, name a person place or thing, describe an action,
adjective
noun
verb
The story of a person's life that is written by the person about their own life.
Autobiography
These sounds are often "glued" together when they are read.
Some examples include: ung, ink, ong, ank and an.
Welded Sounds
notwithstanding
4 syllables
This sound is heard in three different phonemes.
c, k, ck /k/
Name the subject of the following sentence:
Because her friend was sick, Delia decided to stay home to help her feel better.
Delia
A type of fiction that based on the future, technological advances or environmental changes.
Science Fiction
This spelling rule is used with one-syllable words that end in f, l, s and sometimes z.
Double consonant rule or floss rule.
complicated
4 syllables
These sounds have two letters that name one sound.
Digraphs
What does HmH stand for in your ELA reading program?
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt