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Sight word games. Follow the links below to the free online sight word games. Your child will have lots of fun while developing their sight word recognition and spelling skills. These games will help children to learn to recognise the most common reading words on sight. The High Frequency Words site contains lots of free printable resources to help children learn the first 100 and next 200 high frequency words specified in the Letters and Sounds phonics programme. Sight reading is particularly useful for those all-important and frequently used words which are quite tricky to sound out or spell phonetically. Developing an instant recognition of these words will give your child's reading a boost and help them to gain confidence. Sight Word Video This video goes through several sight words, putting them into a sentence to aid understanding. Sight Word Recommendations. Dolch Word Games. Free online Dolch word games to help you learn those all-important sight words.

There are games where you match the spoken word to text, word searches and spelling practice games. The games are divided into sets for Pre-Primer, Primer, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade and 3rd Grade. The most frequently used words in the English language are in the Pre-Primer section, so that's the best section to start with. Just click Get & Share below and copy the code for a mini version of one of my Dolch word games. Scroll down to access the main game pages. Dolch Word Games. Blending and Segmenting Games | Classroom Strategies. Blending Guess-the-word game This activity, from our article Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines, is an example of how to teach students to blend and identify a word that is stretched out into its basic sound elements. Objective: Students will be able to blend and identify a word that is stretched out into its component sounds.

Materials needed: Picture cards of objects that students are likely to recognize such as: sun, bell, fan, flag, snake, tree, book, cup, clock, plane Activity: Place a small number of picture cards in front of children. Robot talk Talking in "Robot Talk," students hear segmented sounds and put them together (blend them) into words.See example > (80K PDF)* Note: To see all Blending/Segmenting Activities from this site, visit here. Blending slide The "Reading Genie" offers teachers a simple way to teach students about blends. Oral blending activity The information here describes the importance of teaching blending skills to young children. Www.mrsperkins.com/dolch-words-all-printable.pdf. Professor Garfield Kindergarten Blending Sounds Games. 3 free fun and educational games For kindergarten children, Professor Garfield Blending Sounds games teach valuable skills in blending sounds, matching letters to sounds, and much more.

These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating. Your child practices blending words together by choosing the word that can be constructed from given phonemes. 3 subjects: Early Reading / Phonics, Blending Sounds, Matching Letters to Sounds Your child practices separating words into their various phonemes by helping Bo tend his pumpkin patch of words. 2 subjects: Early Reading / Phonics, Blending Sounds Your child learns how words change by changing single sounds in their components by helping Lanolin tend her word garden. 3 subjects: Early Reading / Phonics, Matching Letters to Sounds, Blending Sounds Send Feedback. Phonics - Kids English Videos, Games and Lessons that Make Learning Fun and Easy.

Teaching Tips. TeachingTips™ December 2003, By Cindy Cupp©2003 Cupp Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Classroom teachers are welcome to copy these activities for use in their classroom. If more than one copy is needed, please email me or contact my office at cindycupp@mindspring.com. The first section of TeachingTips™ provides answers to the general question of how to help students learn to sound-blend words. The second section will provide answers that are program specific to Dr. Question - I teach 20 kindergarten students. Answer from Cindy: There are many “fixes” for this problem, but students will need to have the following skills mastered before they can successfully sound-blend words: Skill 1 – Students must understand that the little squiggly marks (letters) on the page represent letters, letters represent sounds, and these sounds blend together to make words that have meaning. During inservice training, I say these students “have not come to the well.” I don’t say the ending t sound.

Kindergarten- Blending sounds and reviewing. 56 Free Phonics Worksheets and Phonics Awareness Activities. Have Fun Teaching. Www.righttrackreading.com/blending.html. Blending Explained Why Smooth Blending is Important to Reading Development & How to Help Children Develop Smooth Blending What is Blending? Blending is the ability to smoothly and fluidly combine individual sound together into words.

For example, smooth blending is sounding out the word ‘mast’ as /mmaasst/ instead of a choppy or segmented /m/…. /a/…. /s/…. Why is Smooth Blending of Sounds Important? To read proficiently, the student needs to learn to blend individual sounds smoothly together into words without choppy pauses between the sounds. Why do you need to teach students to blend sounds together? While many students pick up smooth blending easily and automatically, others do not acquire this vital skill on their own and need specific work to master blending. Blending is a skill easily overlooked. To avoid potential difficulty it is important to directly teach smooth blending skills from the beginning. How Do I teach students to blend sounds smoothly? The format is: For Example: Child: “sun” Slide Sounds to Teach Reading. Learning to read is incredibly exciting, but it’s like a complex puzzle—for it to happen, all of the pieces need to be in place.

One of those pieces is something called phonemic awareness, which in plain English, means that a child knows the sounds that the letters of the alphabet make. And once they know those individual sounds, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice. Readers, ho! What You Need: A list of three-letter words that follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern, such as cat, pan, bit, hop, had, did, bet, wig, dot, and jug. What You Do: Choose a word from the list, for example, “cat”. Blending and segmenting words takes practice, but it’s well worth it.

Liana Mahoney is a National Board Certified elementary teacher, currently teaching a first and second grade loop. Www.michigan.gov/documents/Kindergarten_Literacy_Activities_66523_7.pdf. Picture Dominoes. Name _Date __ Picture Dominoes Cut out the pictures below. Then play dominoes by matching the pictures whose names have the same ending sound. Make new picture dominoes by cutting out pictures from magazines. Answer Key. Teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/profbooks/alphatree.pdf. Phonics and Kindergarten Resources at Internet 4 Classrooms.