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.

Group 1

words with the digraph ai and oi

paid, wait, join, afraid, oil, point, rain, coin, soil, train.

Group 2

words ending in le

middle, bottle, apple, table, ankle, uncle, eagle, bubble, cable, little.

Group 1 spellings

Compound words and words with unstressed vowels:

bedroom, balloon, thunder, football, playground, sunset, farmyard, carrot, pocket, starfish.

Group 2 Spellings

Words where wr makes a r sound :

wren, wrestle, wrong, wrap, written, wriggle, wrecked, write, wrapped, wrote.

Group 1

Adding the suffix ed and ing:

buzzing, buzzed, fizzing, fizzed, looked, looking, jumped helping, helped, jumping.

Group 2

Words where kn and gn make a n sound:

gnat, gnome, knee, kneel, know, gnaw, knock, knight, knit, knew.

Group 1:

churches, foxes, dishes, flowers, boxes, dogs, lunches, boats, brushes, cars.

Group 2:

lace, ice, rice, circle, space, fancy, cell, city, circus, race.

Group 1 spellings:

Words with the tch trigraph

catch, kitchen, hutch, ditch, match, fetch, switch, witch, patch, batch.

Group 2 spellings:

Words where g makes a j sound

energy, giraffe, giant, gentle, engine, gem, gym, magic, religion, digit.