Cursive: Spelling Patterns 1

This comprehensive video lesson series serves a dual purpose: to improve (simple) cursive handwriting while simultaneously enhancing their students' spelling skills.

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Course curriculum

1. why
2. shy
3. try
4. dry
5. fly
6. sly
7. sky
8. spy
9. fry
10. cry
11. Speed test
12. Cloze activity
1. oi
2. oin
3. join
4. coin
5. point
6. Speed test
7. soil
8. foil
9. boil
10. spoil
11. Speed test
12. void
13. avoid
14. joist
15. Speed test
16. Cloze activity
1. boy
2. toy
3. joy
4. ploy
5. enjoy
6. Speed test
7. annoy
8. deploy
9. decoy
10. employ
11. Cloze activity
1. rain
2. wait
3. paid
4. main
5. Cloze activity
6. Speed test
7. laid
8. rail
9. maid
10. claim
11. Cloze activity
12. Speed test
13. chain
14. faith
15. brain
16. plain
17. Cloze activity
18. Speed test
1. ay
2. way
3. pay
4. may
5. say
6. Cloze activity
7. Speed test
8. play
9. sway
10. tray
11. spray
12. Speed test
13. Cloze activity
1. babe
2. made
3. wake
4. safe
5. cage
6. male
7. Cloze activity
8. Speed test
9. fame
10. lane
11. cape
12. base
13. date
14. save
15. haze
16. Cloze activity
17. Speed test
18. shade
19. grade
20. blade
21. place
22. space
23. grace
24. Cloze activity
25. Speed test
1. vibe
2. hide
3. wife
4. bike
5. Speed test
6. Cloze activity
7. tile
8. lime
9. nine
10. ripe
11. Cloze activity
12. Speed test
13. wise
14. kite
15. size
16. mice
17. Cloze activity
18. Speed test
19. price
20. glide
21. spike
22. smile
23. Speed test
24. Cloze activity
25. crime
26. shine
27. drive
28. spite
29. stripe
30. Cloze activity
31. Speed test
1. here
2. meme
3. gene
4. swede
5. Cloze activity
6. Speed test
7. theme
8. scene
9. these
10. scheme
11. sphere
12. Cloze activity
13. Speed test
1. ode
2. rode
3. mode
4. robe
5. lobe
6. Cloze activity
7. Speed test
8. home
9. cone
10. bone
11. note
12. globe
13. Cloze activity
14. Speed test
15. joke
16. woke
17. broke
18. smoke
19. stone
20. Cloze activity
21. Speed test
22. prone
23. hope
24. rope
25. slope
26. Cloze activity
27. Speed test
28. those
29. drove
30. stove
31. Cloze activity
32. Speed test
1. cube
2. truce
3. rude
4. huge
5. Cloze activity
6. Speed test
7. duke
8. fume
9. dune
10. fuse
11. mute
12. Cloze activity
13. Speed test
14. fluke
15. plume
16. prune
17. flute
18. Cloze activity
19. Speed test
1. ave
2. save
3. have
4. cave
5. crave
6. grave
7. brave
8. Cloze activity
9. Speed test
10. eve
11. hive
12. give
13. five
14. dive
15. drive
16. alive
17. thrive
18. Cloze activity
19. Speed test
20. -ove
21. love
22. move
23. cove
24. drove
25. above
26. prove
27. Cloze activity
28. Speed test
29. Paragraph
1. ar
2. car
3. dart
4. park
5. farm
6. yard
7. large
8. Speed test
9. Sentences
10. march
11. start
12. sharp
13. apart
14. chart
15. harsh
16. Sentences
17. Speed test
1. ee
2. see
3. Speed test
4. Speed test
1. ea
2. sea
3. team
4. each
5. read
6. Speed test
7. clear
8. reach
9. speak
10. treat
11. please
12. Speed test
1. ea
2. head
3. bear
4. Speed test
5. heavy
6. meant
7. bread
8. sweat
9. Speed test
1. her
2. term
3. verb
4. person
5. serve
6. alert
7. nerve
8. stern
9. verse
10. energy
1. ir
2. girl
3. bird
4. shirt
5. first
6. third
7. birth
8. thirty
9. thirsty
1. oo
2. zoo
3. food
4. soon
5. boot
6. roof
7. moody
8. gloom
9. scoop
10. smooth
1. book
2. good
3. wool
4. foot
5. stood
6. shook
7. school
1. oa
2. boat
3. road
4. soak
5. foam
6. soap
7. coast
1. oe
2. toe
3. goes
4. aloe
5. foe
6. tiptoe
7. woeful
1. ou
2. out
3. about
4. mouth
5. around
6. sound
7. count
8. proud
9. amount
1. ow
2. now
3. how
4. down
5. town
6. brown
7. flower
1. own
2. snow
3. grow
4. flow
5. below
6. shown
7. follow
8. window
9. borrow
1. ue
2. blue
3. clue
4. true
5. value
6. argue
7. venue
8. rescue
1. ew
2. new
3. few
4. grew
5. drew
6. chew
7. nephew
1. ie
2. lie
3. tie
4. pie
5. vie
1. igh
2. high
3. night
4. light
5. right
6. flight
7. bright
8. mighty
1. or
2. for
3. born
4. horse
5. north
6. sport
7. report
8. record
9. normal
10. support
11. morning
12. perform
1. ore
2. more
3. score
4. before
5. chore
6. adore
7. ignore
8. encore
9. explore
10. boredom
1. aw
2. draw
3. yawn
4. hawk
5. crawl
6. straw
7. awful
1. au
2. auto
3. audio
4. author
5. fraud
6. launch
1. air
2. chair
3. flair
4. repair
5. unfair
6. despair
1. ear
2. beard
3. near
4. year
5. clear
6. spear
1. under
2. after
3. river
4. better
5. summer
6. winter
7. sister
8. number
1. etch
2. fetch
3. sketch
4. stretch
5. wretch
6. Cloze activity
7. Speed test
1. itch
2. witch
3. pitch
4. ditch
5. Cloze activity
6. Speed test
7. switch
8. stitch
9. twitch
10. glitch
11. Cloze activity
12. Speed test
1. -otch
2. notch
3. botch
4. splotch
5. Cloze activity
6. Speed test
1. -utch
2. hutch
3. clutch
4. Cloze activity
5. Speed test
1. dog, dogs
2. cliff/cliffs
3. doll/dolls
4. hall/halls
5. Sentences
6. hull/hulls
7. shell/shells
8. bike, bikes
9. cake, cakes
10. Sentences
11. cape, capes
12. case, cases
13. coin/coins
14. lime, limes
15. fine/fines
16. fire, fires
17. game/games
18. gate gates
19. lane lanes
20. pipe pipes
21. Sentences
22. plane planes
23. spade/spades
24. wave waves
25. Speed test
1. match/matches
2. class/classes
3. dress/dresses
4. fox/foxes
5. wish/wishes
6. beach/beaches
7. Sentences
8. Speed test
1. -tch
2. -atch
3. catch
4. match
5. patch
6. snatch
7. Cloze activity
8. Speed test
9. batch
10. latch
11. watch
12. Cloze activity
13. Speed test
1. ph
1. wh
1. ki
1. un
1. raincoat
2. haircut
3. moonlight

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ending with y (long i)

oi

oy

ai

ay

a-e

i-e

e-e

o-e

u-e

-ve

ar

ee

ea (long)

ea (short)

er (stressed)

ir

oo (long)

oo (short)

oa

oe

ou

ow (as in now)

ow (as in snow)

ue (as in blue)

ew (as in grew)

ie

igh

or

ore

aw

au

air

ear (as in hear)

er ending

-etch

-itch

-otch

-utch

-s nouns, plurals (no change)

-es plurals (no change to root wood)

-atch

ph

wh

k before i

prefix un-

compound words

About this course