Feed the Monster: Five-Sound Words
Feed the monster words with five sounds and skip four-sound look-alikes like camp for clamp.
Learning Path · Syllable patterns
DE 3 Complex Closed Syllables
Building longer closed-syllable words with digraphs, blends, and common spelling conventions.
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DE 3 games (49)
Fill the Story: Five-Sound Words
Read short stories and place five-sound words like plant, stump, and scrub.
Missing Piece: Five-Sound Words
Listen to a five-sound word and choose the blend that completes it.
Sentence Detective: Missing Sounds
Find the word with a missing sound in each sentence and spell it with all five sounds.
Skill Bingo: Count the Sounds
Bingo for sound counting: find words with 3, 4, or 5 sounds.
Feed the Monster: nk Words
Feed the monster words that end in nk and skip the ng look-alikes.
Match & Remember: ng and nk Rhymes
A memory game with rhyming ng and nk words like sing/ring and pink/sink.
Missing Piece: ng and nk
Listen to a word and choose its ending: ng or nk.
Word Chain: ng and nk
Change one part at a time to build chains like sing, sang, sank, tank.
Word Sort: ng or nk?
Sort words by their ending: ng as in sing or nk as in sink.
Missing Piece: ck, tch, dge & Doubled Letters
Listen and choose the correct ending spelling after a short vowel: ck, tch, dge, ll, ss, ff.
Sentence Detective: Spelling Conventions
Find and fix misspelled words that break the ck, tch, dge, and doubled-letter rules.
Word Factory: ck, tch, dge & Doubled Letters
Listen and build words that end in ck, tch, dge, or a doubled letter.
Word Sort: ck or k?
Sort words by how the final /k/ is spelled: ck after a short vowel, k after a consonant.
Word Whack: Doubled Endings
Whack words that double their final f, l, s, or z after a short vowel, like bell, puff, and kiss.
Fill the Story: Long-Vowel Families
Read short stories and place words like old, cold, find, and child.
Match & Remember: Long-Vowel Families
A memory game with the closed-syllable exception families: -ind, -old, -ost, -olt.
Word Maze: Long-Vowel Families
Follow words like kind, cold, and most through the maze. Short-vowel look-alikes block the way.
Word Pop: Long-Vowel Families
Pop the closed-syllable words with a long vowel, like find, cold, and most. Skip look-alikes like fist and cost.
Word Sort: Short or Long?
Sort closed-syllable words: regular short vowels (lost) or the long-vowel families (most, kind, cold).
Fill the Story: Closed-Syllable Stories
Read short stories that review all of DE 3 and put each word where it makes sense.
Reading Race: Closed-Syllable Sentences
Read decodable sentences with blends, digraphs, ng/nk, and ck, then answer a question.
Sentence Scramble: Closed-Syllable Sentences
Build and read sentences that review blends, digraphs, ng/nk, ck, and the long-vowel families.
Skill Bingo: DE 3 Review
Mixed-review bingo for DE 3: blends at the start or end, ng and nk, and ck.