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CVC WORDS (short vowel)
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-un, -up,-ig, -om -op, -ill, -an, are, the, park, day, they, says, want, ask/asks, yes, did

-ot, -og,-ig, -ug, -ad,
the, plays, drinks, dish, eats, food, good, walk, see, duck, pond, want, chase, do, deer, grass, does
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Consonant Combinations
Initial consonant blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl
Initial consonant blends: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr
Initial consonant blends: sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw
Final consonant blends: -nd, -nt, -st, -lt, -pt, -ct
Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh
Words ending in -ng: ring, sing, king, long, hang
Words ending in -nk: bank, tank, sink, pink, think
-ck ending: back, duck, rock, stick, truck, check

CVC words,, the, and, are, says, the, they, spin, fast, stops , let's, this, smile, best

-ig, -ip, -et, -ap, an, -un, -og, the, and, to, says, the, pink, bark, shhh
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R-Controlled Vowels
-ar words: car, star, far, bar, jar, park
-or words: for, or, corn, horn, storm, short
-er words: her, fern, nerve, clerk, term
-ir words: sir, girl, bird, first, shirt, dirt
-ur words: fur, hurt, turn, burn, nurse, purse

Long Vowel Patterns
CVCe: Silent E (long vowel sound)
Double vowel teams - ai: rain, train, brain, chain, plain
Double vowel teams - ay: day, play, say, way, may, stay
Y as long i at word endings: my, by, fly, sky, try, cry, dry, why
Double vowel teams - ea: eat, read, sea, team, dream clean
Double vowel teams - ee: see, tree, free, green, sleep, three
Double vowel teams - oa: boat, coat, road, soap, goal, load
Double vowel teams - ow: show, know, grow, snow, blow, flow
Vowel teams - ie: tie, pie, lie, die, tried, dried
Vowel teams - ue: true, blue, glue, clue, due, rescue
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Y as long e at word endings: happy, funny, baby, candy, sunny, pretty
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Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh
Words ending in -ng: ring, sing, king, long, hang
Words ending in -nk: bank, tank, sink, pink, think
-ck ending: back, duck, rock, stick, truck, check
Two-syllable, closed syllable, phonetically regular words (short vowel sound)

Simple suffixes: -s, -es (plurals)Simple suffixes: -ing, -ed, -er, -est

Advanced Phonics Patterns
Diphthongs - oi/oy: oil, coin, boy, toy, joy, noise
Diphthongs - ou/ow: out, house, cow, now, how, cloud
Hard and soft c: cat vs. city, cake vs. center
Hard and soft g: go vs. gym, gate vs. gentle
-tch ending: catch, match, watch, scratch, kitchen
-dge ending: bridge, edge, fudge, judge, badge
Multi-Syllable Words
Compound words: into, cannot, maybe, something, everyone
two-syllable words with short vowels: rabbit, better, picnic
Syllable division patterns (VC/CV): rab-bit, nap-kin, pic-nic
Syllable division patterns (V/CV): ba-by, ti-ger, la-ter
Prefixes and Suffixes
Simple prefixes: un-, re-, pre-, dis-
Advanced suffixes: -ly, -ful, -less, -tion, -sion
Silent Letters & Complex Patterns
Silent letters: knee, knife, lamb, thumb, write, wrong
-ough patterns: rough, tough, through, thought, cough
-eigh/-igh patterns: eight, weigh, light, night, bright
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