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In this word sorting activity worksheet, students look through a story they have read and identify compound words, long e words, verbs, adjective, short a words, contractions, words with wh, feeling words, and words with -ing in the appropriate boxes.

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verbs, parts of speech, compound words, the long /e/ sound, long vowels, vowel sounds, phonemes, phonemic awareness, phonics, the short /a/ sound, short vowels

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Adjective, compound words, contractions, feeling words, long e words, short a words, verbs, vrbs, words with ing, words with wh, english language arts
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2nd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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