Joel Swagman (Reviews / TESOL)

Monday, April 20, 2026

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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Matching Cards for CVC words with -ug

(TESOL Worksheets-- -ug Word Family)

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I use these cards in several stages.
I start out with some of the alphabet cards from this previous activity. I take the "U" card, and ask students what sound it makes. Then I take the "G" sound, and ask what sound it makes, and then put the two cards together, and try to get students to tell me the sound.
I then take out several consonants, and get the students to tell me the sound, and then put these consonants together with the -UG to make different words, helping students to sound them out.

At this point I put out the picture cards, and as we do different CVC -at words, I get students to identify the pictures.
Once all the words and pictures have been identified, then we play a memory card game to match the words and pictures.
Lastly, I put away the word cards, and just show students the pictures. The students have to write down the word on their mini-white boards.

bug
dug
hug
jug
mug
pug
rug
tug

This Week in Booktube: April 19, 2026

(These are the Booktube videos I watched this week. As always, I encourage you also to check out each of the videos I've linked to down below. Support Booktube. And let me know what you've watched this past week.)

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Bucky749 Seriously well read book tag

Bookish Dear Conservative Booktube

Steve Donoghue Epic Comic Book Wednesday Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow

Alison Talks Books I Don't Want to *OpTiMiZe* My Booktube Channel

Library of a Viking BookTube Just Changed… And No One Is Talking About Why

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Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

Bucky749 Magazine review : Sherlock Holmes mystery magazine issue 22 .

Started: Animal Farm by George Orwell (This is a reread. I've read this book several times before, and I've mentioned this book on this blog before here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. But I've never reviewed it on this blog before, so I figured it was time to read it one more time, and give it a proper review.)