Silent letters are a very interesting phenomenon in English language. I teach English to non-native speaking kids whose native language does not have letters that are not pronounced. Therefore all too often my young students find it very weird that they need not read certain letters in English words. They struggle really hard to get accustomed to these unusual and confusing spelling rules. So I decided to pay special attention to
silent letters in English when I was designing my
printable poster-sized phonics charts. I’ve created multiple charts featuring
words with silent letters or letter combinations along with relevant pictures in order to make those charts child-appealing. The charts feature nouns that can be easily illustrated.
I’m sure there are multiple languages in the world that do not have such thing as silent letters (e.g. Spanish and many Slavic languages). I hope my printable charts will help my fellow EFL and ESL teachers introduce silent letters in a visually appealing way to novice English learners speaking these languages.
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| A printable chart listing English words with silent letters a, b, c, d. |
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| A printable chart listing English words with silent letters e, g, h. |
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| A printable chart listing English words with silent letters h, i, k, l. |
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| A printable chart listing English words with silent letters l, n, s, p, t. |
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| A printable chart listing English words with silent letters u, w as well as letter combinations ai, gue, ch. |
You can also find some printables featuring silent letters in English in my blog posts dedicated to
phonics sound charts and
phonics flashcards. You are welcome to download my printable resources published on this blog to use them for free or purchase printer-ready high resolution PDF versions.
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