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Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading

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3. We spell by letter patterns

1. Give, love, serve, halve (Words don’t end in v. They always end in ve.)
2. Picnic, picnicking, traffic, trafficking (An extra consonant must be inserted to keit.)
3. Strange, gouge, forge, wage, badge (The ending sound /j/ must be spelled with a ge or dge,never the letter j)