Phonics Word Wheels for Reading Groups or Word Work
Phonics Word Wheels are a fun, engaging activity for your small group reading instruction or your word work center. Easy to assemble, these word wheels allow students to create words…
Early reading instruction builds the foundation for lifelong literacy. In elementary classrooms, this includes developing phonemic awareness, teaching systematic phonics, strengthening decoding skills, and supporting students as they build fluency and confidence. Strong early reading instruction is explicit, intentional, and responsive to student needs.
Phonics Word Wheels are a fun, engaging activity for your small group reading instruction or your word work center. Easy to assemble, these word wheels allow students to create words…
My son struggles to read and it breaks my heart. Despite all of my training as a teacher, reading to him throughout this life, and a love of stories, reading…
Learning letter sounds, blending and segmenting words, and various phonics skills are foundational for early reading. However, there are just some words that can’t be sounded out. Sight words are…
Blending Cards are a great tool to use with students who are learning to read. The Blending Cards are formatted whole-page, but you can print them in many different page configurations to meet…
Reading and writing open and closed syllables is a foundational skill for multisyllabic decoding. Learning to read part of a word helps students break down longer words into more manageable chunks…
I do not enjoy using too many worksheets in my classroom. I believe that students should be interacting with the content and each other. Whenever I create a worksheet for…
Blending Cards help students segment, blend, and read words in a variety of phonics patterns. They are great for kindergarten and first grade students or second or third grade students…
Word Family Phonics Readers for CVC Words include decoding practice, sight word practice, and three passages per word family. These phonics readers only include short vowel CVC words and sight…
My son is in Kindergarten this year. It’s now May and I have watched him struggle with learning to read. If you’ve been reading my blog posts this past year,…
Do you know the difference between continuous and stop sounds? What about those tricky sounds that you hear pronounced in two or three different ways? Blending sounds is hard for…
If you teach early reading, consider how you are teaching your students to read. Do you teach students to memorize words? Or, do you teach them to sound out a word and…
When you sit down to plan what you’re teaching for your small group reading instruction, how do you decide the kind of text you are putting in front of your…
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