Teaching Short Vowel Sounds

admin August 18, 2021 No Comments

Teaching Short Vowel Sounds Those short vowel sounds can really trip up our young readers. Several of the vowels sound so similar it’s no wonder that they can be so tricky. Discrimination activities, such as this vowel sticks activity, can help our students hear the differences between the sounds. Several years ago I attended a training based on Orton Gillingham methods and the training introduced a strategy called vowel intensives. Because those vowels can be so tricky, repeated practice is necessary- even if it’s just for a few minutes before introducing new phonics skills. When teaching short vowels, be sure to differentiate this activity.  You can do this by choosing which and how many vowels to use during instruction. You

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Activities for Teaching Rhyme and the Alphabet

admin August 12, 2021 No Comments

  These candy corn rhyme activities and alphabet activities have certainly been a hit for fall themed literacy centers! They are perfect for our kindergarten and first grade students just learning the concept of rhyme and the letters and sounds of the alphabet. These activities are ideal for small group instruction as well and for sure you’ll want to differentiate the activities by choosing how many and which candy corns to use within your centers or during your small group instruction. They are super simple to make. Just print the candy corns (I usually print mine on card stock), laminate and then cut out the pieces. Once cut, you’ll have activities that will last for years! When you download the

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Fall Themed Math Activities for Kindergarten and First Grade – Fall Themed Math Activities for Kindergarten and First Grade

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Fall Themed Math Bundle! My goodness! Fall is just around the corner and it’s time to pull out all of our fall themed math activities! The Make, Take & Teach Kindergarten and First Grade Math bundle includes 13 fall-themed activities designed to teach basic number concepts. Here are just a few of my favorites from this bundle! Play Dough mats Of course, an early numeracy bundle wouldn’t be complete without Play Dough mats! Students just love making numbers with Play Dough. This activity is ideal for independent centers. You can certainly purchase your Play Dough, but I like to make my own as the dough is softer to form. Get the recipe! Be sure to use Wilton cake food coloring

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Apple Themed CVC Word Activities

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Apple Themed CVC Activities These adorable little apple-themed CVC activities are perfect for teaching students to read consonant vowel consonant words. The CVC word slider and early literacy bundle make perfect additions for your fall learning centers. Fun CVC Word Sliders When you download this activity you will receive 5 vowel apples and 65 consonant worms! To Prep & Play: First, cut out the apples and worms Next, and totally optional, you can laminate your activities for years of use. Finally, Let’s Play, have your students slide worms through the apples containing the vowel. Yes! It’s that easy. Students love seeing how many words they can make with this activity.     The Apple Themed CVC Word Sliders can also

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Dab It! Phonics Games and Activities

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Fun Phonics Learning Games!   Need a fresh idea for a fun phonics learning games? I just absolutely LOVE the Dab It! game. It’s always amazing that something so simple can be so engaging. All you need to do is print the template you’d like to use and grab a few bingo dabbers (I can usually find them at the Dollar Tree). The activity is played much like 4-In-A-Row. Players take turns reading a word and “dabbing” the spot. The first player to get five of their colored spots in a row (up, down or diagonally) wins the game. So simple and guaranteed to be a hit with your students. Dab It! Phonics Learning Games The Dab It! Phonics download

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Apple Themed Alphabet Activities

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Apple Themed Alphabet Activities   Fall is just around the corner and it’s time to pull out all those apple themed alphabet activities! The Beginning Sound Apple Match activity is perfect for introducing the letters and sounds of the alphabet. See below for the many games and bundles based that are perfect for fall. Beginning Sound Apple Match As with many of our activities, this can be easily differentiated! Choose which and how many letters and sounds to use with your students. When you download this activity you will receive the letters printed on the baskets and 120 apples containing words with the beginning sound! Print and laminate these apples and baskets for years of use. The Beginning Sound Apple

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Phoneme Grapheme Mapping Resources

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Shortly after students learn the letters and sounds of the alphabet, we introduce the concept that many vowels and consonant sounds can be spelled in different ways. Let’s take the /f/ sound for example. Most of the time the /f/ sound is spelled with “f” as in the words “fan”, “fish” and “fix”. Sometimes the /f/ sound is spelled “ff” as in the words “cuff” and “off”; sometimes “gh” as in “tough” and sometimes “ph” as in “phone”. This can be pretty overwhelming for our young readers and writers. How do students know when to use which spelling for the sounds in the words they wish to write? Phoneme Grapheme Mapping Let’s take the words “pin” and “frog”.  Each of

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“Sweet” Alphabet Cupcake Activities!

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It’s always important to incorporate hands-on activities into learning letters and sounds.  Our little preschoolers and kindergarteners really enjoy matching activities.  Matching activities are great for independent centers or as an activity for direct instruction.  These activities can be easily differentiated as you can choose how many and which cupcakes to use.  Simply  place the cupcake tops and bottoms on the table and have your student(s) match the beginning sound of the picture to the lowercase letter.  An upper- to lowercase matching activity is also included in the downloadable file. The Alphabet Cupcake activity is available through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store or through the Make, Take & Teach website.

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Bunny Match Alphabet and CVC Word Activities

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Spring is just around the corner and it certainly has been fun working on spring themed activities! Although we still have snow on the ground and a thin layer of ice on the lake, the sights and sounds of spring are now just beginning to make an appearance. The penguin alphabet match and the penguin CVC match activities were a definite hit during the winter months that many of my friends asked for a spring themed activity as well.  I thought a bunny themed activity would be a super cute substitute for that adorable penguin that Kyle (fabulous artist) created. The activities contain a self-checking feature which makes them ideal for use during independent centers. For the alphabet game, students

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Short Vowel Basketball Activity!

admin March 23, 2021 No Comments

It’s that time of year again! The college basketball championship is in full swing and, honestly, my team was ousted in the first round. Kind of takes just a little bit of fun out of watching the games, but I have to admire the all those young players. It’s still fun to watch. Many of our beginning readers are watching the games too! It’s always fun to take advantage of these interests and incorporate them into our educational activities. The Short Vowel Basketball activity contains two separate activities- one with pictures only which helps students listen for the short vowel sound in words and the other with words only. The activities are differentiated as there are sorting templates for 2-,

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