Supports Common Core Standards for Reading, Foundational Skills, Phonological Awareness. More than 100 Multi-Sensory Activities: Develop your students' reading and spelling strategies with these motivating multi-sensory activities. Long Vowels teaches the long vowel word families and reinforces short vowel word families with engaging word cards, puzzles, sorting activities, slide cards, and more. 45 word families or chunks are combined with single consonants, 22 blends and 4 digraphs.
Research shows that when we encounter an unfamiliar word, our brains look for words we know with similar patterns. That's why children learn to read words by learning word families and by practicing with onsets, rimes, and chunking words.