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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our children's school word study is the actual study of the way word sounds are made and put together. They would take a bunch of words with the same letter groupings and sort them by the different sounds. Or vice versa (like the long "a" sound week, they might study words that have "eigh" "ay" and "a-e"). There were no games without purpose. I'm sorry they have your child doing all that![/quote]can you explain a little more?[/quote]

There are two main possibilities for they list. One would be similar sounds, and they would sort notecards into piles based on the patterns. So for the sound I mentioned above, the words might be eight, neigh, hate, hay, pray, abate. Sort into groups, noticing the same sound can be made with several letter combinations.

The other approach would be the same letter combination making different sounds. An example of the list that week might be abbey, convey, hey, alley. Several words containing "ey" but two different sounds, depending on the word[/quote]

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