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Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words Lesson Plans and Activities for Teaching Phonics Want to try phonics in your classroom but don't know where to start? These free resources, including lessons and activities, will help you use phonics to promote reading success. Professional Development Resources Explicit Systemic Phonics by Wiley Blevins (PDF) This detailed article describes the critical components of a good phonics lesson. Preventing Reading Failure This Q&A provides information on how to integrate phonics lessons with teaching reading. Decoding Multisyllabic Words by Wiley Blevins This article from Instructor Magazine provides the information you need to start teaching your class about syllable spelling patterns. Professional Workshop Review our summer workshop, "Supporting Emergent Literacy: Developing Story Language Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics." Spelling Strategies: Make Smart Use of Sounds and Spelling Patterns This article from Instructor Magazine offers advice on how to build phonemic awareness as a base for spelling skills. Online Activities Which Letter?

Printable Booklets — Hubbard's Cupboard Early childhood teachers tend to spend hours of time searching for just the right books for their students for both shared reading and guided reading literacy experiences. Once a book is located, it is sometimes even more difficult to find multiple copies, books that can be sent home for further reinforcement, and/or books that can be made even more personal with student drawn artwork, etc. Below, you will find a growing collection of free printable booklets for use in your classroom or home school. The booklets are un-leveled reading materials for emergent readers. They correspond to typical shared reading stories, focus on word families and phonics skills, single in on sight words, or contain concepts for science, math, and social studies commonly used in early childhood themes/lessons.

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics Free Phonics Worksheets and Reading Tests, Supporting Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics, Sight Words and Learning Disabilities Spellathon English Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation Exercises for ESL Teachers and Students BOB Books- Dot We are on to the third BOB Book! We've completed Mat and Sam and now we are on Dot! Here are the printables I have made for Butterfly to work on Dot with! Butterfly worked on writing the words from the book and reinforcing the beginning sounds. She matched up the words and completed the wordsearch. Butterfly also worked on 3 Dinosaurs 's Word Path activities and decoding the words using beginning sounds. ... and colour coded sheets with the new words. Love Royal Baloo 's word puzzles too, reinforcing the spelling. We made great use of This Reading Mama 's "ot" word cards, Butterfly made all sorts of new words with OT.

Alphabet Matching Matching upper case and lower case Teachers can use the following activity to ask students to help the "Mama animals" (uppercase letters) find their "babies" (lowercase letters). This game includes matching the uppercase mothers with their lowercase babies. See example > (4.2MB PDF)* This link provides a template for a prinatble "Superhero" upper and lower case letter match game. See example > This file includes uppercase and lowercase letters in a matching game that parents can use with their child at home. See example > (56K PDF)* This link provides templates for printing cards to use for writing uppercase and lowercase letters. See example > Letter formation: using sand, play dough, flour The website below provides teachers with downloadable mats with the alphabet letters for helping children use play dough to for learning letter formation. See example > Letter bingo Bingo is a simple game that children enjoy and can be used to help them learn about the upper and lower-case letters. Letter books

Reading Reform Foundation (RRF) - Promoting Synthetic Phonics : Home Homeschool Parent How to learn the letters and sounds of the Alphabet Welcome to Jolly Learning - Jolly Learning Jolly Learning Chateau Meddybemps