Group 1

Words where the digraph er is unstressed at the end of words:

winter, better, ever, river, sister, after, never, summer, brother, under.

Group 2

Words where ing is added to single syllable words:

dropping, sitting, hopping, slipping, humming, patting, clapping, wrapping, running, flipping.

Group 1 spellings

Words where the digraph er is stressed:

perch, herb, fern, germ, person, verb, her, mermaid, stern, term.

Group 2 spellings

Words where er, est, and ed are added to words ending in e:

closest, looser, largest, loved, safer, writer, simpler, nicer, hoped, baker

Group 1

Word where the digraph ea makes an ee sound:

lead, beak, squeak, leap, leaf, each, teach, reach, real, peach.

Group 2

Words where ing is added to words ending in e :

coming, hoping, surprising, writing, smiling, loving, joking, shining, hiking, caring.

Group 1

Words where er and est are added to words ending in y:

drier, tidiest, angrier, driest, happier, angriest, funnier, tidier, happiest, funniest.

Group 2

Words with the digraph ee;

see, week, meet, sheet, feel, seek, free, feet, tree, green.

Group 1

Words with the ar sound:

car, shark, arm, garden, dark, jar, art, park, hard, stars.

Group 2

Words where ed is added to to words ending in y:

magnified, spied, fried, supplied, replied, applied, relied, copied, multiplied, identified.

Group 1

Words with the split digraph o_e:

phone, hope, hole, spoke, woke, bone, joke, those, home, mole.

Group 2

Words where the y makes an igh sound:

dry, sky, reply, July, cry, spy, try, why, shy, fly

Group 1

words with a split digraph i_ e:

side, five, like, spike, ride, time, fire, trike, mine, slide.

Group 2

Challenge words:

cold, gold, hold, both, wild, only, most, told, old, climb

Group 1 spellings

words with the split digraph a_ e

rake, mistake, snowflake, came, same, plate, made, take, awake, safe.

Group 2 spellings

words ending in al

final, animal, pedal, capital, petal, magical, hospital, local, equal, medal.

Group 1

Words with the digraphs ay and oy

joy, day, say, stay, play, way, cowboy, toy, clay, enjoy.

Group 2

Words ending in el

camel, towel, tunnel, angel, squirrel, hazel, jewel, tinsel, travel, vowel.