Short A: Sample Phonics Games and Activities - The Short Question
Read a one-line definition, reveal letters one at a time by clicking squares, and guess the short-A word or its letters.
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Read a one-line definition, reveal letters one at a time by clicking squares, and guess the short-A word or its letters.
Guess a short-I word from a clue; unscramble jumbled letters to spell a short-I word; choose the correct picture from four options for a clue; judge whether a statement about a short-I word is true or false.
Complete 10 lessons of hands-on activities (Blending and Segmenting, Sound Boxes, Sounds at the End, Building Words, Word Ladders, Try Tiles, Quick Reads, A Game of Dominoes, Making Sense of Sentences, Pet Stories) using Sound Box Mats, color and black-and-white Word Ladders, a Word Sort activity, and Pet Stories…
Listen to or read progressive clues (first letter, letter count, meaning) and guess the short-A word; answers are revealed after clicking through the clues.
Watch cups labeled with short-I words shuffle after the ball's starting position is shown, then identify which cup the ball ended under.
Students identify and isolate sounds in words through matching games, Go Fish, a beginning-sounds bowling game, I Spy/"I Hear" listening tasks, a board game, bingo, Clip It sound-matching cards, Write It letter-writing/tracing tasks, and a per-topic assessment.
Click numbered clue boxes to reveal picture clues one at a time, guess the target word, then reveal letters to confirm the answer.
With a family member at home, students practice counting sets of objects (touch-and-move, circle counting, ten-frame counting), identify and write numbers, play Number BINGO and 'I Spy'/'Cover It' teen-number games, practice 1-more/1-less number relationships, and use alphabet charts/cards (uppercase and lowercase)…
Trace and say the letter B sound aloud, use flashcards/posters/play-dough mats to practice letter formation, play a 'Doggie, Where's the Sound?' listening game, build sentences, read an alphabet/decodable reader and cut-and-paste readers, complete mazes, cut-and-paste beginning-sound and CVC-word activities, do…
Students match uppercase to lowercase letters and trace the alphabet, match rhyming pictures, color pictures with the same beginning sound, clap and count syllables, read and match CVC words to pictures, fill in missing vowels, trace word-family words (-at, -an, -in, -ot, -un), trace and write sight words, find sight…
Trace/write uppercase and lowercase K; identify, sort, and color the letter K; complete letter mazes, connect-the-dots, cut-and-glue, bingo-dab, geoboard, and color-by-code activities; make Kite and Kangaroo crafts (stick puppets, finger puppets); practice reading/writing '-ack, -ick' word-family and '-a, -i' vowel…
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'i' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Read (or fill in missing letters in) a short decodable story about Tom the dog and Bob the frog; answer comprehension questions; sort words/pictures as short-O or not; match rhyming words; build -ob and -og word families; use flash cards and short-O sorting games; earn a completion crown.
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'u' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'a' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'o' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Students blend, read, segment, and spell short 'e' CVC words; build and proofread sentences; match puzzle pieces; use flash cards; play a 3-in-a-row board game and a spinner word-building game.
Students complete five separate tasks: change one letter of a CVC word to make a new word; solve doubles/doubles-plus-one addition facts in a pocket-chart game; sort words by short vowel sound; match pumpkins to seed counts that complete the number 10; and write CVC words with picture clues (with or without a medial…
Complete phonics worksheets (short vowel sounds, beginning/ending/middle sounds, CVC word building), trace/write sight words, practice rhyming and word families, order the alphabet, match uppercase/lowercase letters, and sort by sound.
Complete 57 varied literacy activities: listen to/read 8 short read-aloud stories and answer picture/circle-the-answer questions; match uppercase/lowercase letters; identify beginning sounds A-Z; build/identify short-vowel CVC words; trace and write sight words; navigate letter-sound mazes; sort word families (-at…
Complete short reading-comprehension passages with questions, phonics sorts (vowel sounds, CVC words, blends/digraphs, rhyming, word families), and related word-work activities; check answers with the provided key.