Double Consonants Rule and the Floss Rule in Spelling

How do we teach students when to use double consonants and what rule should we follow? According to the FLOSS Rule, we teach that you should double the F, L, S, or Z when they come after a short vowel sound in a one-syllable word. This means you will use ff, ll, ss, or zz. Even though the letters are doubled, they only make one sound (i.e. /f/, /l/, /s/, or /z/). Below you will find double consonants examples, exceptions to the floss rule, resources including the floss rule worksheets and lessons, and a FREE checklist to use when you are teaching the double consonants rule.

Double Consonants Examples

Here are some examples of a short vowel one-syllable word that follows the double consonants rule.

Phonics Lessons for Double Consonants Words

As a Title 1 Reading Teacher, I use this phonics program for all of my struggling readers who do not meet state benchmarks. This can be used for Kindergarteners through older students who are continuing to struggle with connecting phonics skills to fluently reading words. These lessons for phonics are designed for you to teach during a whole or small group reading phonics lesson. This curriculum provides explicit phonics instruction in each important component, including skill work, decoding and blending, word mapping, connecting phonemes to text, and purposeful phonics practice.

This phonics program includes:

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Double Consonant Words List

Word Lists in Students’ Hands!

These phonics-based word lists are a list of real & nonsense dynamic words that are targeted to the specific phonics skill being taught. I have personally used these double consonant word lists in my small reading groups. My students were able to apply their decoding skills to develop fluency in reading double consonant words with short vowels. These word lists are an excellent phonics resource, which can be used to individualize your intervention reading groups. They are a great resource for students to reference for additional reading support.

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Digital Word Lists

Are you having a hard time finding a phonics activity that will have your students build words? Looking for a highly effective way to practice and improve your students' decoding and blending skills? What is orthographic mapping and how can I use it to help my students read more fluently?

The word lists are systematic and sequential. They start with the phonics skill your students need to work on and will continue to review previously taught phonemes throughout each list. This means that the consonant digraphs will not have silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, etc. The word lists will review previously taught sounds (i.e. short vowels and double consonants). This digital resource is EDITABLE!

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Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping Double Consonants Words

Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping or word mapping is the process of looking at a word, reading the word, breaking down the words into sounds, writing the letter combinations of each phoneme, and writing the entire word. Word Mapping will allow students to build their word recognition skills to permanently connect speech phonemes to the graphemes.

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Double Consonants Worksheets

I’m sure you’ve heard about phonics skills and how important it is for beginning readers and how letter-to-sound correspondence will increase your student’s fluency. But, the challenge is that your students have not had enough practice using real and nonsense words to help students automatically read key phonetic sounds. You’ll be ready for your beginning readers to use these no-prep worksheets that will challenge your students. These Phonics Worksheets use real and nonsense words so your students will improve their ability to ‘attack’ unknown or unfamiliar words in text. There are over 30 pages of ready-made phonics worksheets that help to build words and build other words that follow the Phonics Word Lists: Double Consonants - FLoSS Rule (real and nonsense words)

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