Missing Letters Worksheets

I have designed a comprehensive set of printable missing letters worksheets to aid my young students in learning and memorizing over 450 English words, ranging from basic CVC words to more uncommon vocabulary. These interactive worksheets offer an effective and enjoyable way for children to enhance their language skills while having fun.

Homophones Worksheets and Posters

As an English teacher, I am always looking for ways to help my students expand their vocabulary and improve their language skills. One way I have found to be particularly effective is teaching homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, such as "write" and "right", "son" and "sun", or "I" and "eye". Learning homophones can expand students' vocabulary and improve their spelling and grammar skills.

Vowel Teams - Printable Posters

The concept of two or more letters spelling a single sound (digraphs, trigraphs and quadgraphs) or two sounds coming together to create a new sound (diphthongs) can be confusing for young non-native English speakers. I teach English to kids whose native language does not have diphthongs, and digraphs are rare things for this language. Yet in English digraphs and diphthongs are very common, so kids must learn how to spell them correctly. When working with elementary school students, I call digraphs and diphthongs vowel teams and consonant teams. I help kids imagine letters being pals and working together to form sounds. Imagining letters as cartoon characters allowed me to create all sorts of activities and icebreakers in the classroom. I also design visuals to help students better memorize common letter teams and sounds they make. Printable posters featuring vowel teams and consonant teams are among my best visual teaching materials for digraphs and diphthongs.

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I’m a big fan of visuals for teaching English. I believe such materials are very much conducive to memory of preschool and elementary school children. Even when we get aquainted with English phonics and learn how to spell letters, I do my best to offer as many relevant visuals as possible for kids to memorize new vocabulary through associating words with pictures. Such association is natural for children. Reading lists of words to train spelling of various digraphs is not as good as reading lists of words with pictures around them to train spelling and memorize some useful vocabulary at the same time. That is why I love the concept of printable visually-enhanced posters featuring words and corresponding images for students to different spelling patterns involving vowel teams and consonant teams. I have designed 30 such posters so far.

Vowel teams posters printed on A3 paper sheets (297 x 420 mm, 11.7 x 16.5 inch).

Silent Letters in English - Charts with Words and Pictures

Silent letters are a very interesting phenomenon in English language. I teach English to non-native speaking kids whose native language does not have letters that are not pronounced. Therefore all too often my young students find it very weird that they need not read certain letters in English words. They struggle really hard to get accustomed to these unusual and confusing spelling rules. So I decided to pay special attention to silent letters in English when I was designing my printable poster-sized phonics charts. I’ve created multiple charts featuring words with silent letters or letter combinations along with relevant pictures in order to make those charts child-appealing. The charts feature nouns that can be easily illustrated.

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I’m sure there are multiple languages in the world that do not have such thing as silent letters (e.g. Spanish and many Slavic languages). I hope my printable charts will help my fellow EFL and ESL teachers introduce silent letters in a visually appealing way to novice English learners speaking these languages.

A printable chart listing English words with silent letters a, b, c, d.

Food & Drinks Word Search Puzzles

The food & drinks vocabulary being introduced with the help of flashcards and strengthened through matching worksheets, it is time to start paying more attention to spelling of the words. I begin doing so by offering my students some word search puzzles that teach kids to recognize 59 English names of food and drinks.

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I’d like to share a few such printable word search worksheets in this blog post. There are 7 word search puzzles in my PDF-based food & drinks kit that English teachers are welcome to purchase. The kit also has word and picture matching worksheets, crossword puzzles, flashcards, domino and bingo game. There are also worksheets and cards that feature British English equivalents of some relevant words belonging to the food and drinks vocabulary. All those printable handouts can help ESL and EFL teachers make their lessons dedicated to food and drinks more effective, engaging and fun.

The food & drinks word search puzzle for words chicken, pork, egg, ham, hamburger, beef, bacon, sandwich, pizza, sausage.

Clothes and Accessories Crossword Puzzles

I often include crosswords into my lesson plans as this kind of activity helps students not only memorize the vocabulary but also learn spelling of important words in a fun way. Learning to spell words would have been boring without crossword puzzles. Therefore printable crossword worksheets have become an important ingredient of the syllabus I use to teach English to kids. Today, I’d like to share some printable crossword puzzles I offer to my students when learning the clothes and accessories vocabulary.

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ESL / EFL teachers are welcome to use my clothes and accessories crosswords for their English classes. They can also choose to buy a premium printer-optimized kit in the form of hi-res PDF documents containing several types of printable worksheets, flashcards and games. The clothes and accessories kit also has alternative worksheets and cards for educators who teach British English. All in all the kit helps introduce over 60 words related to clothes and accessories.

The clothes and accessories crossword puzzle for words hat,  hoodie, coat, stockings, blouse, underpants, tie, slippers, sandals, jeans.

Phonics Flashcards (R-Controlled Vowels)

Today I would like to share the set of the R-controlled Vowel Sounds Flashcards.

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The set consists of 20 flashcards. Cards №№ 133-136 present words in which the letter a followed by the letter r makes the sound [a:]. Card № 137 presents words where the letters o and r give [ɔː]. Cards №№ 138-140 present the sound [ɜː] made by the phonograms ir, ur, er.

Cards №№ 141-145 include phonograms -er, -or, -ur which produce the schwa sound [ə]. It should be noted that the card №143 gives the words with the British spelling of the phonogram -our like in colour, favour; the card №145 gives the same words with the American spelling -or like in color, favor.

Cards №№146-148 display such phonograms as -eer, -ear, -ere which make the sound [ɪə]. Card № 149 contains the words where the phonogram -ir meets one more vowel resulting in the sound [aɪə] like in fire, iron. Cards №№ 150-151 demonstrate the phonograms -our, -ower that give the sound [auə]. Card № 152 shows cases where the phonogram -ur meets one more vowel making the sound [juːə] like in cure, during.

Phonics Flashcards: r-controlled vowel sounds

Phonics Flashcards (Long U Vowel)

Today I would like to share the last set of long vowel sound phonics flashcards series .
This set consists of cards with the long sound u.

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Cards №№ 117-120 contain phonograms u, ui, ie, eau, ue, ew which give the long vowel sound [juː].
Cards №№ 121-128 present phonograms oo, o, u, ew, ue, ou, oe, ui which give the sound [uː]

Phonics flashcard: long u sound

Phonics Flashcards (Long O Vowel)

Today I would like to share some new cards from my long sound phonics flashcards series.
This post is dedicated to the long sound [ɔʊ].

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Cards №№ 109-111 present the words where the letter Oo gives the long sound [ɔʊ].
Cards №№ 112-116 include such phonograms as: ow, oa, ou, oe, old.

Phonics flashcard: long o sound

Phonics Flashcards (Long I Vowel)

I continue sharing with you my long sound phonics flashcards and today my post is dedicated to the long sound [ai]. This set consists of 16 cards.

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Cards №№ 93-101 include such phonograms as: -ice, -ide, -ike, -ime, -ine, -ive, -ild, -ind, -igh-. Cards №№ 102-104 present the words where the letter Ii gives this sound, while cards №№ 105-106 show the same sound in the words with the letter Yy. Cards 107-108 present such phonograms as ie, ui.

Phonics flashcard: long i [ai] sound

Phonics Flashcards (Long E Vowel)

Referring to my previous posts dedicated to the series of phonics flashcards I continue publishing other phonics sets. Here is a set of flashcards including the words with the long E sound [i:].

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There are not many words with such phonograms but I've done my best to collect them. Cards №№ 85-92 include the following phonograms: e, ee, ea, i, ie, ei.

Phonics flashcard: long e [i:] sound

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Phonics Flashcards (Long A Vowel)

I continue sharing my series of phonics flashcards. In my previous phonics post I publishing the last set of flashcard dedicating to the short vowel sounds. Today I start focusing on the long vowel sounds. So in this post I would like to share my long A sound [ei] flashcards.

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Cards №№ 73-78 include the following phonograms: -ake, -ame, -ate, -ale, -ane, -ace. Cards №№ 79-82 introduce different cases of the long A vowel in the middle of words. Cards №№ 83-84 demonstrate the occurrence of the long A sound in digraphs ay, ai.

Phonics flashcards: long A sound

Phonics Cards (Short U Sound)

This is the last post with my short sound phonics cards. This time it's the short [ʌ] sound. The set consists of 16 phonics cards for reading and practicing this sound.

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Сards №№ 57-67 include such phonograms as -un, -ut, -ug, -um, -ub, ud, -up, -uck, -unk, -ump, -ust. Card № 68 presents some cases where the letter Uu is read as [ʌ] in the middle of the word, while card № 69 contains words with the same sound occurring in the beginning of the words. Card № 70 has words where the letter Oo is read as [ʌ], and cards №№ 71-72 introduce reading rules for vowel digraphs oo and ou.

Phonics flashcard: short [ʌ] sound

Phonics Cards (Short O Sound)

Today I would like to share my new set of phonics flashcards and this time with the short sound [ɔ]. This set consists of 12 cards covering the following cases:

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Cards №№ 45-52 include the following phonograms: -og, -ot, -op, -ob, -od, -ong, -ock, qua-. Card № 53 contains words where the short sound [ɔ] occurs in the middle of a word. Card № 54 presents words with this sound in the beginning. There are cases of the “wa” letter combination on card № 55. And card № 56 demonstrates the short [ɔ] sound in the vowel digraph au.

Phonics flashcard: short [ɔ] sound

Phonics Cards (Short I Sound)

I continue sharing sets of phonics flashcards. This time the set is dedicated to the short sound [ɪ].

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The set includes 20 cards with different cases where this sound occurs. Сards №№ 25-36 contain such phonograms as -in, -ip, -it, -ig, -id, -im, -ill, -ick, -ink, -ing, -ish, -age. Cards №№ 37-44 contain words where different vowels represent the short [ɪ] sound. These are the cases where the letter Yy is read as [ɪ] at the end and in the middle of a word; the letter Ee and the vowel digraph ey, the letter Ii in the beginning and in the middle of a word, and the letter Uu and the vowel digraph ui.

Phonics flashcard: short i [ɪ] sound

Phonics Cards (Short E Sound)

Two days ago I started publishing my new series of phonics flashcards with the first set dedicated to the short A sound. And here is another set of flashcards. This time they are designed to help young students remember the  short E sound [e]. This sound can be a little bit tricky for English learners because the name of the letter doesn't correspond to the sound it represents. In addition non-native English speakers can confuse letter Ee with letter Ii because in some languages such as Russian and Ukrainian, for example, there is no difference between long and short vowels and it's difficult for children to remember that the letter Ee is read as [e] and not as [i:] while the letter Ii is read as [ɪ].

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This set of flashcards allows practicing in reading the short E sound. Cards №№ 13-20 contain the following phonograms: -ed, -en, -ent, -ell, -est, -et, -eg, -end. Cards №№ 21-23 present different cases of short E sound. And card № 24 contains words with the vowel digraph ea which is read as a short E sound [e].

Phonics flashcard: short e [e] sound

Phonics Cards (Short A Sound)

Today I would like to present you my new series of flashcards devoted to teaching phonics and reading. Being an English teacher in a kindergarten I faced some difficulties in introducing English language reading rules to the children. In Russian, French, German, Italian, Spanish and many other languages reading rules are less complicated than in English. English can be really confusing for non-native speakers.

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Everybody knows that there are too many exceptions in English language that makes reading and spelling a stumbling block for little and even adult learners. That’s why I decided to develop a series of very simple cards where words are sorted by phonograms. All the words are easy to read and remember as I have selected only the most frequently used words trying not to overload children with unnecessary information. I hope my cards will facilitate the work of many ESL teachers from all over the world.

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The first set of phonics flashcards is dedicated to the short A [æ]. There are 12 cards in the set which include all the common phonograms with this sound: -at, -am, -an, -ap, -ag, -ab, -ad, -and, -ash, -ack, -ank. Card № 12 presents different words with this sound.

Phonics flashcard: short a [æ] sound