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Compound words can be surprisingly fun for students to study. Don't miss this opportunity to really engage your students. My favorite compound words include butterfly, daylight, breakfast and handshake. Compound words are typically introduced in First Grade. Learning about compound words is fun and it provides students a new way of looking at words.

A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes based on whether or not it is capitalized.

The Dolch Word List is a list compiled by Edward William Dolch in 1936. The list contains 220 commonly used words that should be recognized by "sight" for fast or "fluent" reading. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list. Many of the 220 Dolch words do not follow the basic phonics words so they cannot be "sounded out." They should be learned by sight. Dolch words are now often referred to as "sight words." Although the list is traditionally divided into grades, most school systems say that the Dolch words should be mastered by the end of 1st grade. It has been rumored that Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) was challenged to write and illustrate a children's primer using only the 220 Dolch words. The result was 'The Cat in the Hat'.

Game, resources, and printables using the Dolch sight words

Learning about your state's symbols is a right of passage for all upper elementary kids. Remembering your state flower, your state bird, your state tree, your state motto and even nickname can be difficult, but learning with online games can make it much easier and much more fun! Playing games is something kids love to do, even if they end up learning something along the way.

Sound alike words, also known as homophones, cause confusion. Here, at SpellingCity.com, we want you to learn the correct spelling and meaning behind all your sound alike words. To practice, SpellingCity provides you with "confusing words" vocabulary lists. We all have made those mistakes when, for instance, your friend had a hoarse throat and you sent an email that said, "Tommy has a horse throat." Did you really mean that your friend has a horse in his throat? No. Sound Alikes or Homophones or Confusing Word Lists include: 1st - 2nd Grade Sound Alike Words: to, too, two, son, sun, be, bee, by, buy, bye, see, sea 3rd - 4th Grade Sound Alike Words: which, witch, would, wood, read, read, red, then, than, there, their, they're, you, you're, your, never, ever, nose, knows, break, brake, passed, past, peek, peak, plain, plane, dye, die, tee, tea, flower, flour, whose, who's 5th - 6th Grade Sound Alike Words: lie, lye, lay, capitol, capital, hoarse, horse, knot, not, laboratory, lavatory, access, excess, affect, effect, accept, expect, expect, all right, alright, allowed, aloud, marry, merry, know, no High School Sound Alike Words 1: adverse, averse, addition, edition, leak, leek, lean, lien, leased, least, aid, aide, air, heir, allusion, elusion, allude, elude, mall, maul, muscle, mussel, need, knead, kneed, carat, karat, carrot, cite, site, sight, coco, cocoa, real, reel, heard, herd High School Sound Alike Words 2: accede, exceed, accent, ascent, assen, accept, except, access, excess, adapt adept, adopt, adverse, averse, advice, advise, allude, elude, annual, annul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the infamous words of there, their and they're? Do you know how to correctly use each word? Sound alike words are not there to trick you, so SpellingCity.com allows you to learn proper meaning and spelling. Here are some sentences using them correctly. The