FLOSS Rule Worksheets

About this resource

Picture on the page, two letters missing from the word. The child says the picture, then circles the two

letters that fit, writes them in two big boxes, or, on the Read It pages, reads the word and circles the

picture. Four FLOSS patterns — ff, ll, ss, zz — 19 pictured words, and nothing to cut or glue.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (37 pages)

• 20 student pages: 4 sets (ff, ll, ss, zz) x 2 pages (Circle It, Write It) = 8, plus 12 Mixed pages with

no pattern given (Mixed Circle It x 4, Mixed Write It x 4, Mixed Read It x 4, groups A-D)

• 19 pictured words: five each for ff, ll and ss, four for zz, because English has only a handful of

one-syllable zz words at all. Every picture was looked at before being kept; 4 are Google Noto pictures

(bell, shell, buzz, jazz) and 15 (cliff, cuff, muff, puff, staff, doll, hill, mill, glass, grass, moss,

toss, floss, fuzz, fizz) are drawn for this pack, because neither art set has a picture that names them

cleanly

• Every child page has a "My name" line, one short direction with a small icon (a speech bubble on Circle

It, a pencil on Write It, a book on Read It), big letters and pictures, and a star to color when

finished. No adult text on a child page. Only the 8 Write It pages (4 set pages and 4 Mixed pages) have

write boxes: two per word, about 0.7 in tall, one letter each. The 8 Circle It pages and the 4 Read It

pages are circle-only, with nothing to write

• 2 answer-key pages (generated from the same data as the worksheets, including which chip slot holds the

correct answer), 1 picture key of all 19 words with a disclosed note on the five words pictured by

sound/association rather than by object (buzz, fuzz, fizz, puff, jazz)

• 1 tracker (up to 3 dated tries per set, plus Mixed), 1 class progress grid (14 rows), 1 team note page,

1 home page (all four patterns, every pictured word), 1 filled example, 1 phrase bank

• 1 binder cover with spine label and 1 page of six cut-apart divider tabs (FF, LL, SS, ZZ, Mixed, Key &

Notes), edge to edge so each cut is one straight line

• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page with all three page types shown blank and answered, a contents

page that gives every page number plus a sample one-week plan, and a "What's next" back page

The Three Page Types

1. Circle It: the picture, the word with a gap, three chips. One chip is the correct FLOSS pattern; the

other two are two of the three other patterns, picked so a word does not always see the same pair of

distractors. Unlike a two-pattern file, there is no reversed-letters trick — ff, ll, ss and zz share no

letters with each other, so a wrong chip is simply a different, wrong pattern, never a spelling-slip

look-alike.

2. Write It: the same kind of word with two big boxes, one letter each. On a set page the direction names

the pattern; on a Mixed page a small ff/ll/ss/zz bank sits above the pictures and nothing is given.

3. Read It: the other way round. The word is printed and the child reads it and circles the picture. The

wrong pictures come from other patterns and start with the same letter where possible.

The Four Floss Patterns

ff (cliff, cuff, muff, puff, staff) · ll (bell, shell, doll, hill, mill) · ss (glass, grass,

moss, toss, floss) · zz (buzz, fuzz, fizz, jazz).

This is pencil work that isolates f/l/s/z doubling as its own rule, with a Read It page and the full

record-keeping kit around it. Nothing here is cut or glued (except the optional binder tabs).

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page are type-in fields

in any PDF reader. The circles and the letters students write are pencil work, and every child page prints

clean in black and white. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten and first-grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher whose student

is ready for the FLOSS rule. Your district's or program's scope and sequence decides which pattern comes

first.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

FLOSS-rule practice paper with the record-keeping around it. It is not a reading assessment and not a

claim about any student's age or rate of progress. The invented student in the example is labeled as

invented.