4th Grade Silent Letters: bt Worksheets
13 printable 4th Grade phonics worksheets on Silent Letters: bt. Every sheet has an answer key — 13 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: Silent B — bt; Silent B - bt; Missing silent letters. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 28 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 4. Every grade is on one page: Silent Letter Worksheets.
What is in this set: Sort And Write (4), Word Hunt (4), Build (3) and Fluency (2).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 4, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 4 activity types: Build, Fluency, Sort And Write, Word Hunt.
All 13 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: Silent B — bt Free PDF
- Fluency 1 Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: Silent B — bt Free PDF
- Sort And Write 2: Silent B - bt
- Build 1: Missing silent letters
- Sort And Write 3: Silent B - bt
- Word Hunt 2: Silent B - bt
- Sort And Write 4: Silent B — bt
- Build 2: Missing silent letters
- Fluency 2
- Word Hunt 3: Silent B — bt
- Build 3: Missing silent letters
- Word Hunt 4: Silent B - bt
Teaching Silent Letters: bt
What it is
In a small set of words the b before t is silent: doubt, doubtful, debt, debtor, subtle. In obtain, obtuse, and subtext the same b before t is clearly spoken, so it cannot simply be skipped wherever it appears.
When a child is ready
Teach it after silent b in mb, when the child is reading longer words and can hold a short exception list.
If they struggle
For spelling, say doubt beside dubious and debt beside debit, where the b is heard, so the silent letter has a reason attached to it instead of being one more thing to remember. For reading, have the child check the word against the short silent-bt list first, since obtain and subtext look the same and do say the b.
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