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Teaching Resource
Heart Word Magic Dissect a Word
Last updated 2025/08/22
Description
This activity allows students to practice dissecting Heart Words (high-frequency words) with irregular letter sound relationships by listening to the individual phonemes in a word and then filling in the corresponding spellings. They fill in a heart above the irregular part of the word that must be learned “by heart” and write that tricky part again.
Sample scripts are provided for the following words: said, from, his, of, could.
This PDF includes 5 pages. Page 1 provides the overall directions, pages 2-4 provide the sample scripts and page 5 is the student spelling grid sheet.
Curriculum Connection
Integrating high-frequency words into phonics lessons allows students to make sense of spelling patterns for these words. To do this, high-frequency words need to be categorized according to whether they are spelled entirely regularly or not. Restructuring the way high-frequency words are taught makes reading and spelling the words more accessible to all students, and allows for effective teaching of curriculum content in B2.
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I really like the instructions and fill in chart! Very explicit.