3rd Grade Silent Letters: mb Worksheets
17 printable 3rd Grade phonics worksheets on Silent Letters: mb. Every sheet has an answer key — 17 in all. 4 activity types: Build, Fluency, Sort And Write, Word Hunt. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: The Silent B — mb; The Silent B - mb; Missing silent letters. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 4 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3. Every grade is on one page: Silent Letter Worksheets.
What is in this set: Word Hunt (6), Sort And Write (5), Build (4) and Fluency (2).
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Includes 4 activity types: Build, Fluency, Sort And Write, Word Hunt.
All 17 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: The Silent B — mb Free PDF
- Fluency 1 Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: The Silent B — mb Free PDF
- Word Hunt 2: The Silent B - mb
- Sort And Write 2: The Silent B - mb
- Build 1: Missing silent letters
- Word Hunt 3: The Silent B - mb
- Sort And Write 3: The Silent B - mb
- Build 2: Missing silent letters
- Word Hunt 4: The Silent B - mb
- Sort And Write 4: The Silent B - mb
- Build 3: Missing silent letters
- Word Hunt 5: The Silent B - mb
- Sort And Write 5: The Silent B — mb
- Fluency 2
- Word Hunt 6: The Silent B — mb
- Build 4: Missing silent letters
Teaching Silent Letters: mb
What it is
In the mb spelling, the b at the end of a word is silent: lamb, comb, thumb, climb, crumb, numb. In words like number, amber, and timber the same two letters are both heard, so where the mb sits is what matters. In Grade 3 mb is set beside gn and wr in longer words such as designed and foreign; the child sorts them, fills in the missing silent letters, and reads them on two fluency pages.
When a child is ready
Teach it once blends and digraphs are read without sounding out each letter and the child accepts that some letters are written but not said.
If they struggle
Position is the clue: the b is silent when mb ends the word or syllable (lamb, climbing), and spoken when a vowel follows it (number, timber, bamboo). Have the child underline the ending before reading, and keep a running silent-b list to add to as new words come up.
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