Make Your Own Phonics Phones!

admin January 22, 2022 No Comments

Make Your Own Phonics Phones! Phonics phones and mirrors are two of the most important items in an early elementary small group instructional area. Phonics phones amplify the student’s voice helping the student to focus and pay attention to the individual sounds.  Although you can purchase them, you can certainly make your own phonics phones.  These phones are super easy to make.   Just follow the directions below: Purchase a 3/4″ PVC pipe and 3/4″ elbow joints (you will need 2 for each phone) Cut PVC pipe into 3 1/2 inch sections Put an elbow joint on each end of the pipe Colorful duct tape can be wrapped around the center of the pipe for fun. Use the phones… 1.

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Word Family Activities Just for Valentine’s Day

admin January 21, 2022 No Comments

We created these “sweet” little word family activities just for Valentine’s Day! Teaching word families is often one of the first steps in teaching students to decode words. Introducing word families helps students recognize “chunks” within a word. Working with word families also builds phonemic awareness.  When we teach these word chunks (aka as “phonograms”) we group words that have a similar pattern allowing students to read the words quickly by learning the pattern within the word. Because these words have a predictable pattern, often differing by only one sound, we say they all belong to a “word family”. The words within a word family rhyme as they have the same ending. Students just love word family activities! Once they

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Valentine’s Day Rhyme Activities

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Your students will just love these Valentine’s Day rhyme activities! Teaching students to rhyme is one of the first phonemic awareness activities we introduce. When we teach students to rhyme we are teaching them to appreciate that words contain individual speech sounds which can be changed to create different words. Understanding that words contain individual sounds is one of the first steps in learning to read! Matching activities are perfect for teaching and practicing the skill of rhyme. The Valentine’s Day heart matching activity is a fun way to teach rhyme while incorporating a little holiday fun. You can easily differentiate this activity by choosing how many and which matching hearts to use! When you download this activity you will

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Mitten File Folder Activities for Rhyme and the Alphabet

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Mitten File Folder Activities! Well….the snow is just flying in northern Michigan and so it is time to pull out all our winter themed activities! These mitten file folder activities for rhyme and the alphabet are perfect for winter themed preschool or kindergarten literacy centers! I just love file folder activities. They take a little bit on the front end to put together, but once assembled, they last a long, long time. Activities for the Rhyme Each mitten themed file folder activities bundle has templates for creating several differentiated file folder activities. When you download this file you will receive four templates with corresponding rhyming mittens. Two templates contain mittens for 9 rhyming matches and the other two templates for

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Sounds of -ed – Winter Themed Activities

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Teaching the Sounds of -ed   Teaching the sounds of -ed at the end of the word indicates that something has happened in the past. The -ed ending is actually what we call a “morpheme” –  a unit of meaning. This concept can be a little tricky for our young readers as the -ed ending on a word has three sounds. When the -ed ending comes after the letter “t” or “d” it makes the /ed/ sound like in the words “melted”, “rented” and “printed”. If the word ends with the following sounds, the -ed ending will make the /t/ sound: p, k, s, f, th, ch, sh or x (e.g. jumped, fished). The /d/ sound for -ed is used

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Addition Games for Winter Math Centers

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During the chilly winter months of December, January and February, it’s always fun to pull out our addition games for winter math centers. Actually, living in northern Michigan, winter activities can be appropriate all the way until mid April. I actually love winter- and creating winter themed activities is tons of fun! For kindergarten and first grade math centers, I created a collection of activities with the goal of understanding number concepts to 20 as well as basic addition and subtraction. Here are a few of our winter themed math center activities: Students love practicing addition facts to 10 with the Penguin Addition activity. This activity is easily differentiated as you choose from one of two types of templates to

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Penguin Themed File Folder Activities for Rhyme and the Alphabet

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Penguin File Folder Activities! Well….the snow is just starting to fly in northern Michigan and so it is time to pull out all our winter themed activities! These penguin themed file folder activities for rhyme and the alphabet are perfect for winter themed preschool or kindergarten literacy centers! I just love file folder activities. They take a little bit on the front end to put together, but once assembled, they last a long, long time. Activities for the Rhyme Each penguin themed file folder activities bundle has templates for creating several differentiated file folder activities. For the rhyme match activity, there are six templates in all. Six templates contain six ice cube/matching penguins for students just learning the skill of

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Winter Themed Climb and Slide Activities!

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The winter themed Climb and Slide activities are a fun twist to an old favorite game of Chutes & Ladders. The activities are perfect for independent practice of targeted phonics skills in your literacy centers. Once laminated, you’ll have ready-made activities all ready to go! All you’ll need will be game markers and dice. For my first, second and third grade friends, I created the climb and slide activities for targeted phonics skills. There are 9 game boards in this download including game boards for long vowel spelling patterns, r-controlled vowels and common diphthongs (e.g. oi/oy, aw/au). Although not necessary, I like to add a pop of color by using colored file folders. For easy storage, I purchased a thin

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Penguin Alphabet Activities

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Alphabet Matching Games My fabulous artist, Kyle, created these super adorable penguins. I just couldn’t wait to use them to create these penguin alphabet activities!  They are perfect for creating winter learning activities for our little ones. These alphabet matching games and beginning sounds learning activities are perfect for independent centers. The penguin activities are sure to be fun for your kiddos just learning the alphabet.     Penguin Beginning Sounds Game One of my favorite penguin themed activities is the alphabet match game. With this activity choose which letters you’d wish to use and the corresponding beginning sounds pictures. Have your students place the pictures on the correct template. Once done, have them turn over the pictures and if

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Apple Themed File Folder Activities for Rhyme and the Alphabet %

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Rhyme and Alphabet File Folder Activities We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE file folder activities! So easy to assemble – and once assembled, they last for years. Everything you need is just right there! Just grab your desired folder and the activity is ready to go! These apple themed file folder activities for rhyme and the alphabet are perfect for small group instruction or as an activity in your fall themed literacy centers. To assemble the file folders simply cut the templates according to the directions, glue them on a file folder, and laminate. Then cut and laminate the apples. I like to use velcro with my activities so I put a piece on the back of the apple and above the

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