5th grade phonics worksheets

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Three phonics skills at 5th grade, one sheet each, free with its answer key: Fry instant words, multisyllabic words, and the schwa sound.

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  • Fry instant words Fry words are the words you meet most often in books. Know them on sight and reading speeds up.
  • Multisyllabic words Long words are short chunks in a row. Count the beats: im-por-tant is three, cal-cu-la-tor is four. Chunk it, count it, read it.
  • The schwa sound The schwa is the lazy uh sound in unstressed syllables: the a in about, the o in wagon, the e in taken. Any vowel letter can make it.

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