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Silent letter words
Twenty words with a letter you write but do not hear: knee, wrist, lamb, ghost. Each has what it means. Open them in SpellKitty and the kitty says each word while your child spells it out loud.
What the list is
Silent letters are the words a child cannot spell by ear, so they are learned as a set: kn, wr, mb, gh, the silent h and the silent l. Spelling them out loud puts the silent letter back where the ear leaves it out.
- knee where your leg bends
- knife a blade for cutting
- know to have in your mind
- knock to tap on a door
- wrist where the hand meets the arm
- write to put words down
- wrong not right
- lamb a baby sheep
- climb to go up
- thumb the short thick finger
- comb it tidies your hair
- ghost a spooky spirit
- hour sixty minutes
- honest telling the truth
- island land with water all round
- listen to hear with care
- castle a stone home for a king
- whistle a sharp high sound
- gnome a little garden man
- half one of two equal parts
Play these words in SpellKitty. On an iPhone or iPad with the app, open this list or scan the code, and the words go straight in. Without the app it opens a page that shows the list.
How to practice them
A few words at a time, a little every day. Say each word, use it in a sentence, then spell it out loud letter by letter. Go back to the ones that were missed first next time.
Using your child’s own list
If the school sends home a weekly list, type or paste those words into SpellKitty instead, up to thirty, with a meaning after a dash if you like. Your first list is free; more lists come with SpellKitty Pro. Opening a shared list is always free. Or make the list here and open it on the phone with a link or a code.
Other lists
Dolch pre-primer Dolch primer Dolch first grade Dolch second grade Dolch third grade Fry words 1 to 100 Fry words 101 to 200 Fry words 201 to 300 Silent e words Double consonant words Commonly misspelled words Words by grade
The Dolch and Fry lists are public; the meanings and the pattern lists were written for this site. SpellKitty is independent and not affiliated with Scripps or any spelling bee organization.
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