CVC Blending and Fluency Reading Guidance
Guided practice blending individual letter sounds into CVC words, then reading those words in short cumulative sentences.
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Guided practice blending individual letter sounds into CVC words, then reading those words in short cumulative sentences.
Digital Boom Cards deck teaching the phonics sounds s, a, t, p, i, n through click-and-drag online activities.
Help early readers practice recognizing and reading Dolch verbs in context using picture-supported (rebus) sentences.
Sight word flash cards for 2nd Grade (Set 1), for word recognition, reading, and spelling practice.
An activity guide (by Hannah Griggs, 'More Than Just Reading') for Beatrix Potter's 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit,' combining discussion questions, letter/word writing practice, hands-on crafts, and a printable board game.
Multi-activity phonics packet teaching recognition, reading, writing and spelling of short-u CVC words.
A pack of 12 decodable phonic reading books plus 2 matching phonic workbooks introducing consonant blend (CCVC) words with a short vowel sound, from the 'Reading Made Simple' synthetic phonics scheme, intended as the step after children can already sound out and blend CVC words.
A set of printable playing cards for practicing three-letter (CVC) word reading through classic card games.
Teach students about 13 explorers of the Age of Exploration (from Portugal, Spain, Britain, and France) through informational reading passages and a companion booklet project.
A cut-and-assemble phonics mini-book that reinforces the 'ot' word family (tot/lot/cot/pot/hot) through a fill-in-the-blank sentence activity and a sequenced story book.
Fill-in-the-blank sentence practice sheets that drill a set of sight words (Fry's 2nd 100 words, Set 7 (words include over, new, sound, take, only, little, work, know, place, years, live, me, back, give, most, very, after, things, our, just, name, etc.)) in context.
A CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) phonics activity where students distinguish real words from made-up/nonsense words as an introduction to word decoding and phonics practice.
A complete movie-study lesson pack (student worksheet, teacher's guide, and answer key) built around the 2023 Netflix film 'True Spirit,' using the true story of teen solo sailor Jessica Watson to teach ELA/vocabulary, geography, media literacy, math, and growth-mindset skills across 30 activities in five parts.
A phonics activity packet focused on short vowel 'a' CVC words, covering the phonics rule, word recognition, tracing, and picture matching.
Foldable mini books for phonics practice targeting the 'am' CVC word family, for reading and writing practice.
Teach reading and spelling of five sight words (out, part, people, said, see) through a sequence of digital micro-lesson activities.
A cut-and-assemble phonics mini-book that reinforces the 'ig' word family (pig/big/dig/jig/fig) through a fill-in-the-blank sentence activity and a sequenced story book.
Display posters listing short-o CVC words for early phonics recognition and spelling practice.
An emergent reader booklet giving beginning readers repeated practice recognizing and reading the sight word "I" in context, built around a morning-routine theme.
Practice color-word reading, counting/tallying, and beginning letter sounds through a mixed literacy-and-math worksheet set.
A five-day arctic animals unit study focused on the snowy owl, combining video/reading suggestions with worksheets and activities across science, art, and writing.
A set of plant-themed alphabet letter-matching puzzles for preschool/kindergarten students to practice uppercase/lowercase letter identification and early phonics.
Illustrated 'Bridging Book Three' story teaching a specific UK phonics/spelling feature (final consonant blends, digraphs, and double-consonant endings) through the alien character Zoggy who 'spies' words containing the target sounds.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op unit study on the octopus, providing daily videos, readings, worksheets, and activities culminating in a final project.