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Short i milk cap spelling mats

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Looking to help your beginning reader practice reading and spelling short i words?  Check these out!

Looking for a hands-on spelling activity? Print these free mats for practice spelling short i words.

Need a creative approach to spelling practice?

Looking for a hands-on spelling activity? Print these free mats for practice spelling short i words.

Simply print the free spelling mats and pull out some milk cap letters.  

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

Looking for a hands-on spelling activity? Print these free mats for practice spelling short i words.

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.

Looking for a hands-on spelling activity? Print these free mats for practice spelling short i words.

Remember to print pages 2-27 front to back.  (Page 1 is my Terms of Use.)

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Get this fun variety of sample spelling games from the membership site! The download includes resources for spelling CVCE words, long vowel teams, and multi-syllable words.

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5 Comments

  1. Angie

    December 27, 2014 at 10:59 pm

    My 1st grader and preschooler love these! I thought they couldn’t get any better until I realized short I is one download. Super easy! Thank you!

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    • Anna Geiger

      December 28, 2014 at 2:43 pm

      You’re welcome, Angie! I’m trying to put things in fewer downloads as I update old posts. Eventually I will put giant sets into single downloads for a small fee, but the individual files will still be free. So glad you like these!

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