Verb Buddies

Students learn to identify helping verbs in simple sentences by first finding the action (main verb) and then locating its 'buddy' helper right before it. The lesson uses a friendship-themed analogy and interactive video practice.

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Vowel Team Temple

Day 5 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students enter the Vowel Team Temple and solve vowel-team riddles (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, oo) to open the final sanctuary vault with a 3-digit numeric code.

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Vowel Team Word List

A printable phonics reference and student activity sheet featuring 15 targeted words with oa, oe, ie, and igh vowel teams. Includes check boxes for decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) practice.

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An accelerated, high-impact review of Fundations Level 2 phonics concepts, consolidating Units 11-17 into an intensive curriculum. This sequence focuses on double vowel syllables (vowel teams), multi-syllabic words, and essential high-frequency heart words to build rapid decoding and spelling mastery.

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Day 4 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students decipher ancient runes in the R-Controlled Ruins by writing missing ar, er, ir, or, and ur spelling patterns. Spells out a 4-letter word lock code.

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Day 5 student worksheet for Vowel Team Temple. Features a sacred temple sanctuary theme, name/date inputs, a 15-word spelling fill-in-the-blank grid categorized by vowel teams (oa, oe, ie, igh), and a 3-digit numeric code box cracked by counting the completed words in each list.

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