Looking to help your beginning reader practice reading and spelling short i words? Check these out!
Need a creative approach to spelling practice?
Writing the words a few times each isn’t all that fun, and it’s often not effective. Try these milk cap spelling mats for a fun approach to beginning reading and spelling.
Simply print the free spelling mats and pull out some milk cap letters. You can download free patterns and view our tutorial if you’d like milk caps like ours!
The download includes the following words:
- pit, sit, hit, lit
- wig, twig, pig, dig
- tip, rip, ship, chip
- pin, fin, twin, spin
- hill, pill, grill, drill
- kick, sick, lick, chick, pick, stick
When you print the download front to back, you child can slide off the caps and flip the mat over to check his spelling.
You might also have your child only do the sides with the printed letters. He or she d will still get plenty of practice reading and forming words.
Remember to print pages 2-27 front to back. (Page 1 is my Terms of Use.)
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Short Vowel Word Family Mats & Games
$10.00
This is a set of 35 printable short vowel word family picture mats with corresponding word cards. The mats come in three different versions – full color with a border, color without a border, and black and white. Each mat also comes with a worksheet and two games.