Play with patterns
Use a game to practice one spelling pattern at a time, like vowel teams. Kids sort words by pattern before they write them. Seeing "rain," "pail" and "snail" together makes the "ai" pattern obvious.
Why it works: in a well-known study, a few short sessions of a simple number board game measurably boosted young children's number skills (Ramani and Siegler, 2008).
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