It's two months into the school year, and we're about to wrap up the first quarter in my building (Yikes! Where did the time go?!).With October in the rearview mirror, I'm reflecting on all the blog posts I never found time to finish and all the blog posts I've been wishing to write. My reading program is officially under way, so now I'm hoping to go back and share some the resources and tools I've been using. Phonics is the target area of instruction for one of my reading groups. For those of you just getting started with phonics instruction, here are a few assessment ideas and instructional tools that
It's two months into the school year, and we're about to wrap up the first quarter in my building (Yikes! Where did the time go?!).With October in the rearview mirror, I'm reflecting on all the blog posts I never found time to finish and all the blog posts I've been wishing to write. My reading program is officially under way, so now I'm hoping to go back and share some the resources and tools I've been using. Phonics is the target area of instruction for one of my reading groups. For those of you just getting started with phonics instruction, here are a few assessment ideas and instructional tools that
Phonics intervention involves explicit, systematic, and mutli-sensory teaching of skills, allowing time for students to apply these skills in context.
These free phonics reading passages have it all: phonics skills, fluency practice and comprehension questions. Plus, students love them!
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THIS IS A FUN-FILLED PHONICS ACTIVITY FOR SMALL GROUPS, INTERVENTION, WHOLE GROUPS, DISTANCE LEARNING, OR INDEPENDENT PRACTICE! MONDAY - FRIDAY SLIDES FOR WEEK #1 INTERACTIVE SLIDES STUDENTS LOVE! SEE WEEKLY #2 SET HERE SEE WEEKLY #3 SET HERE FOR 1ST/2ND GRADE THIS RESOURCE COMES AS: A SEESAW LINK AND A GOOGLE SLIDE LINK THIS IS HEGGERTY - INSPIRED IN THIS RESOURCE, YOU WILL GET 45 INTERACTIVE PHONICS SLIDES (Monday - Friday): *3 RHYME RECOGNITION *3 ONSET FLUENCY *3 BLENDING PHONEMES *3 ISOLATING MEDIAL SOUNDS *3 SEGMENTING PHONEMES *3 ADDING INITIAL PHONEMES *2 DELETING INITIAL PHONEMES *FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK TO SEE NEW PRODUCTS AND RECEIVE DISCOUNTS. https://www.facebook.com/loopedintoliteracy *FOLLOW ME ON TPT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Sellers-Im-Following/Add/Looped-Into-Literacy.
I have always believed the time my students and I spend at the small group table is THE most important time of our day. If you have followed my blog for
Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.
THIS IS A FUN FILLED PHONICS ACTIVITY FOR SMALL GROUPS, INTERVENTION, WHOLE GROUPS, DISTANCE LEARNING, OR INDEPENDENT PRACTICE! INTERACTIVE SLIDES STUDENTS LOVE! THIS RESOURCE COMES AS: A PDF FILE A SEESAW LINK A GOOGLE SLIDE LINK SEE WEEKLY #1 SET HERE SEE WEEKLY #2 SET HERE SEE WEEKLY #3 SET HERE THIS IS HEGGERTY - INSPIRED GOES WELL WITH WILL WEEK 14 OF PRIMARY LESSON IN THIS RESOURCE, YOU WILL GET 20 INTERACTIVE PHONICS SLIDES: *3 RHYME RECOGNITION *3 ONSET FLUENCY *3 BLENDING PHONEMES *3 ISOLATING MEDIAL SOUNDS *3 SEGMENTING PHONEMES *3 ADDITING INITIAL PHONEMES *2 DELETING INITIAL PHONEMES *FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK TO SEE NEW PRODUCTS AND RECEIVE DISCOUNTS. https://www.facebook.com/loopedintoliteracy *FOLLOW ME ON TPT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Sellers-Im-Following/Add/Looped-Into-Literacy.
My sight word activities this year have included a lot more movement for my active learners. Learning our sight words has been a bit more of a challenge for some of my kindergartners. A
Are you struggling to plan your phonics intervention lessons? You need no prep lessons. These structured lessons are based on the science or reading and ready to use for your small group intervention lessons. Orton-Gillingham based and easy to use! This product includes five lessons to use Monday through Friday for your phonics instruction. Your lesson planning is done for you! WOOO! So excited to bring you bundle NUMBER 2 of my lessons plans! You get FIVE lessons for : tch, tri-blends, dge, tch, ng, and nk. You will get FIVE complete lessons for each skill. These lessons include my NINE STEPS TO READING SUCCESS. 1. Warm-up: Phonemic Awareness/Alphabetic Principle 2. Read Sound Cards 3. Blending Drill 4. Read Words 5. Read Sentences 6. Spell Sounds 7. Spell Words 8. Spell Sentences 9. Connect to Text Included for each lesson is a lesson plan and student recording sheet that matches. Each lesson includes 15 decodable words to read, 6 decodable sentences to read, as well as 5 sounds to write, 6 words to write and 2 sentences to write. There are FIVE lesson plans for each phonics skill to give you and entire week of lessons. Lessons could be split over two days to give you two weeks of practice. LOOKING FOR MORE LESSON PLANS? Lesson Plan Bundle ONE Ending Blends Lesson Plans Silent E Lesson Plans Beginning Blends Lesson Plans Digraph Lesson Plans FSZL Lesson Plans CVC Lesson Plans _________________________________________________________________ Thanks friend! Amy
In this post, I'll explain how to figure out if phonics is a "problem area" for a reader and provide ideas for specific phonics interventions.
Phonics intervention involves explicit, systematic, and mutli-sensory teaching of skills, allowing time for students to apply these skills in context.
Short /e/ small group intervention games and worksheets that are aligned with 1st grade 95% Phonics: decodable texts, writing, comprehension, fluency games, and MORE! This is a perfect supplemental resource for 1st grade Lesson 5 and aligned with the science of reading! Please check out the preview to see how this product can meet your needs---and the needs of your students! So many activities to choose from and all of them have been tried in my own classroom! My kiddos love these games and I'm sure yours will too! Be sure to check out my store and the links below for other phonics activities that are aligned with 95% phonics! R Blends S Blends Short Vowels Nonsense Words
Creating plans for reading small groups can be a daunting task. Read how I plan and prep for the year and week by week for my small group reading lessons.
How do you plan for your small group instruction? Do you follow a program where all students receive the same strategies, or do you customize the interventions you teach to meet the needs of your students? As a Literacy Specialist, my students are placed into flexible, target-specific reading groups based on multiple assessments at the beginning of the year. Our pull-out program is very flexible, so targets and groups often change as students make progress and meet their goals. We do not have a formal reading program for every group, so it's up to each interventionist to determine targets, goals,
Hi Literacy Nest, friends! Do you ever find some of the simplest materials make the best games? How many ways can you think of to use a pack of index cards? How about those sticker
We are headed quickly for Back to School! Summer seems to go by faster every year, don't you think? This year for one of my goals in reading as we start back to school, I
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Four years ago when I took a leap of faith into an intervention position, I realized how few resources there were out there for reading and phonics intervention groups. I read SO many books about developmentally appropriate phonics and how to go through the proper foundational steps in order for students to master phonics and […]
These r-controlled vowel phonics reading intervention pages make planning for small groups so easy! Aligned with the science of reading, each 2-page activity incorporates phonics, decoding, fluency, comprehension, writing and high-frequency sight word practice! Phonics intervention pages are part of my Phonics and Fluency Decodable Lessons Bundle, so please do not purchase this if you own that bundle. These all-in-one lessons provide no-prep, targeted instruction for consonant blends that includes all of the below skills in just 2 pages you copy back-to-back! Each 2-page R-CONTROLLED VOWELS lesson incorporates: ✔ Phonemic Awareness ✔ Phonics ✔ Decoding ✔ Fluency ✔ Comprehension ✔ High-frequency word review ✔ Writing Includes 16 Lessons to teach R-controlled Vowels: ✔ 4 lessons for AR ✔ 3 lessons for OR ✔ 2 lessons for ORE ✔ 1 lesson for AR / OR ✔ 3 lessons for ER ✔ 1 lesson for IR ✔ 1 lesson for UR How to Use: Simply print both pages that go with an intervention lesson. Use the teacher directions in each section as you go through the activities with your students. The directions for each section make these easy for subs and volunteers to use as well! Each lesson follows the same format, so once you have used several with your students, you can also assign them for independent practice. Also includes: ✔ teacher guide with sample language to use ✔ an assessment to help you with student placement and differentiation ✔ templates for planning, anecdotal records, and schedule ✔ small group lesson plan template science of reading-aligned ✔ list of differentiated sentences for sentence dictation ✔ answer keys Use in many ways: ✔ Small-group lessons ✔ Independent centers ✔ Morning review ✔ Reading buddies ✔ Finished work activity Planning for small group instruction doesn't have to be hard! These phonics intervention pages are easy to use, and most lessons take about 15 minutes so you can save time and meet with more students! Have any questions? Email me at [email protected]! *****STAY CONNECTED!***** Be the first to see my newest resources, sales, and freebies! Click here to follow my store Want my FREE weekly teaching tips and access to my FREE resource library? Sign up here: FREE Resource Library Want to join like-minded teachers to learn and share ideas? Join my Facebook group here: Tejeda's Tots K-1 Teacher Group Want to Learn More? Visit my blog here: Tejeda's Tots Follow me on Social Media Facebook Instagram Pinterest
Do your young learners have poetry journals?! Mine do and we love them. The main question I have been asked in the past is what I put inside my journals and I created a resource to help answer that question. Most of the poems in our poetry journals are phonics poems, but I also […]
These digital word building resources are based on the Science of Reading (specifically Orton Gillingham), but can be used with any structured literacy or phonics program. They can be used for small groups, intervention, centers, morning work, and so much more!The digital Google Slides format means ...
Make keeping track of small group instruction easy. This form includes a reading log perfect for keeping track of small group instruction progress. Quick and easy sections allow for easy tracking for progress monitoring or for Title One intervention tracking. Each section allows you to quickly monitor progress in all 5 areas of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. This reading log is appropriate for grades K-5. Here’s what you’ll get: MTSS Reading Intervention Log Directions page Ideas for use: This resource provides quick and easy progress monitoring and tracking. The format is perfect for small group instruction and it even includes a section to keep track of student attendance during each small group lesson. Prep is quick and easy…Just print the pages and begin to record your small group data. Copyright ©Moore Literacy Leaps 2023 All rights reserved by author Permission to copy for single classroom use only Blog posts you may enjoy: Blog Let's Connect: Blog Instagram
These phonics intervention reading pages make planning for small groups so easy! Aligned with the science of reading, each 2-page activity incorporates phonics, decoding, fluency, comprehension, writing and high-frequency sight word practice! Phonics intervention pages are part of my Phonics and Fluency Decodable Lessons Bundle, so please do not purchase this if you own that bundle. These all-in-one lessons provide no-prep, targeted instruction for small groups that includes all of the below skills in just 2 pages you copy back-to-back! Each 2-page lesson incorporates: ✔ Phonemic Awareness ✔ Phonics ✔ Decoding ✔ Fluency ✔ Comprehension ✔ High-frequency word review ✔ Writing Includes over 160 Lessons, with an explicit scope and sequence: ✔ UNIT 1: ABC ✔ UNIT 1: CVC ✔ UNIT 1: DIGRAPHS ✔ UNIT 1: BLENDS ✔ UNIT 1: VCE ✔ UNIT 1: MULTISYLLABIC ✔ UNIT 1: R-CONTROLLED VOWELS ✔ UNIT 1: VOWEL TEAMS & DIPHTHONGS How to Use: Simply print both pages that go with an intervention lesson. Use the teacher directions in each section as you go through the activities with your students. The directions for each section make these easy for subs and volunteers to use as well! Each lesson follows the same format, so once you have used several with your students, you can also assign them for independent practice. Also includes: ✔ teacher guide with sample language to use ✔ an assessment to help you with student placement and differentiation ✔ templates for planning, anecdotal records, and schedule ✔ small group lesson plan template science of reading-aligned ✔ answer keys Use in many ways: ✔ Small-group lessons ✔ Independent centers ✔ Morning review ✔ Reading buddies ✔ Finished work activity Planning for small group instruction doesn't have to be hard! These phonics intervention pages are easy to use, and most lessons take about 15-20 minutes so you can save time and meet with more students! Have any questions? Email me at [email protected]! *****STAY CONNECTED!***** Be the first to see my newest resources, sales, and freebies! Click here to follow my store Want my FREE weekly teaching tips and access to my FREE resource library? Sign up here: FREE Resource Library Want to join like-minded teachers to learn and share ideas? Join my Facebook group here: Tejeda's Tots K-1 Teacher Group Want to Learn More? Visit my blog here: Tejeda's Tots Follow me on Social Media Facebook Instagram Pinterest
Teaching in small groups is inevitable what knowing what and how to teach in small groups can be a big question. Come check out these tips!
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These Phonics practice resources are perfect for upper elementary students to use in the classroom, tutoring, and at homeschool.
Are you new to teaching structured literacy lessons or have you been teaching for years? Either way, I think you can get something new to use in your classroom right away from these Science of Reading freebies. I have compiled my most engaging, easy to use and successful phonics games and activities for you to download and implement. Here are my TEN favorite activities to uplevel your learning! *Just click on the picture of the activity that you want or scroll to the bottom and get them all. * 1. Small group planning for structured literacy intervention lessons is easy with this lesson planning template. 2. Glued sounds ink, ank, onk, unk has never been so fun. Throw these no prep printables into a literacy center and your planning is done! 3. Open and closed syllables are such a hard skill to master. This syllable sort makes introducing this skill so much easier! 4. These READ FOR SPEED fluency pages are perfect to send home for homework. One-minute timed readings make a huge impact on a student's words per minute. 5. Rapid Automatic Naming or RAN sheets are an important piece of a structured literacy lesson. These sheets are perfect for a group of THREE. Each student gets to read five words and two sentences. 6. But you may have bigger groups as well. I have these fluency words and sentences for group of five. 7. Learning doesn't have to always be so structure, there is time to have a little FUN. This SILENT E phonics game is always a favorite! 8. ROLL READ and KEEP games are a great way to increase on task reading. This one is to practice nonsense closed syllables. 9. Roll and Reads are also a great way to have multiple repeated readings. Making it a game increases engagement. Here is a sample of letter names, vowel teams, and CVC words. 10. Repeated practice is the best way to master a phonics skill. These no prep highly engaging worksheets for short a CVC words is a way to give students practice reading and writing words. I hope these help you with your Science of Reading journey. Best of luck teaching this year! I also would love to show you how to plan an entire week with the phonics skill FLOSS, BONUS LETTER, FSZL whatever you call the skill. This free sample has over 100 games and activities as well as lesson plans to teach this skill.
When you have students who are in upper elementary classrooms reading several years below grade level, your phonics instruction needs to b...
Teaching phonics is an important aspect of a literacy program. This is especially true for ELLs. Phonics is the relationship between sounds and the letter or letters used to write them. Phonics connects sounds with letters and combinations of letters. In the English language, there are 26 letters and 44 sounds (called phonemes). A grapheme
Welcome to Phonics Friday! My plan is to post every Friday with some fun Phonics based activities and ideas. With a holiday weekend next week and being in Vegas the week after that, I’m not promising consistency (at least for the next couple of weeks). But I do plan on posting more ideas for you …
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Grab this FREE phonics assessment so you can find out exactly what phonics skills your students need to learn!
Are Students Missing Strong Reading Foundations? Phonological, and phonemic awareness skills are the foundations for competent readers. If students are memorizing text, reading without fluency, reading words incorrectly, it might be a sign that they are missing some foundations. These missing foundations are often present in the phonological awareness continuum. Many times, our assessments target […]
Grab this FREE phonics assessment so you can find out exactly what phonics skills your students need to learn!
If you are stuck wondering how to teach reading while engaging your struggling readers, here is an epic list of hands on activities you can use to help...
