Language and Literacy

Reading and Spelling

Variant Vowels and Consonants

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Good Advice

Good Advice

If you want to feel great,

Here’s my advice:

Eat healthy food

Such as corn, meat, and rice.

With ice cream and cake

Or too many snacks,

You’ll be dragging your heels

As you run down the track.

Look for Letter Patterns

photograph of a boy wearing a baseball cap

When c comes before a, o, or u, it makes a hard sound.

Joe has a new baseball cap.

photograph of a girl wearing a catcher's mask

When c comes before e or i, it makes a soft sound.

Look at Dawn’s face mask.

photograph of a boy catching a baseball

When g comes before a, o, or u, it makes a hard sound.

He got it!

photograph of a girl swinging a baseball bat

When g comes before e or i, it usually makes a soft sound.

Dawn swings the bat in the batting cage.