Expanding our understanding of blends, this week’s phonetic activities and spelling list will involve s-clusters, or three letter blends. Students generated and selected words with the following clusters: scr-, spr-, str-, and spl-. Although it doesn’t exactly fit the pattern, we are including squ- words this week as well. To introduce s-clusters, we listened to Splish Splash Splat by Rob Scotton.
S-clusters can be a bit more challenging for 1st graders, so please be sure you are taking time to practice and review them with your child during your nightly spelling practice!