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When teaching the oi oy diphthongs phonics skill it's often helpful to use keywords and pictures to help students remember the sound & letter combinations.
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Teaching regular past tense form is one of the very first morphemes (fancy word for a unit of meaning) that we teach our young readers and writers.
This is a phonics word work packet for the suffixes -tion, -sion, -cian. It can be used as either individual work, in literacy centers, small group instruction, or as homework. There are 44 words featured in this packet (plus some additional words in my original stories activities). They include: action, addition, caution, celebration, definition, description, direction, education, location, motion, nation, option, position, question, solution, station, subtraction, vacation, conclusion, confusion, decision, discussion, division, expression, mansion, mission, occasion, permission, profession, session, television, tension, version, vision, beautician, clinician, electrician, magician, musician, mathematician, pediatrician, physician, politician, statistician Here are the printables/activities included in this packet: •-tion, -sion, and -cian Anchor Charts (can be put up on wall as class posters or used as individual student reference charts) {3 pages} •Find & Sort {1 page} •Complete the Words {1 page} •Using & Understanding -tion Words {1 page} •Using & Understanding -sion Words {1 page} •Understanding -cian Words: “Who Says?” {1 page} •2 original stories and 1 original poem: “A Graduation Vacation,” “Mansion Mission Mystery,” “Marco the Magician” {3 pages—includes answer keys} •Crossword Puzzle: Words ending in “tion” {1 page—includes answer key} •Word Search Puzzle: Words ending in “sion” {1 page—includes answer key} •Double Puzzle: Words ending in “cian” {1 page—includes answer key} •BINGO! Game (10 different game cards, 1 blank game card page, teacher word list) Please enjoy! **Check out these links to some of my other phonics packets:** Irregular Plural Nouns: -ves & -ies endings Phonics: -dge Family Word Work Phonics: -ight Family Word Work Phonics: Silent Letter Word Work Phonics: -ing, -ang, -ong, -ung Word Work Thank you to www.mycutegraphics.com; Melody Bastin @ http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Melody-Bastin for the cover page background art, and www.loveeducasong.blogspot.com for the pennant clip art.
A bookmark for children to use when learning about common digraphs and blends.
One of my projects this summer was to plan out how I wanted to teach sight words and phonics skills next year. My curriculum does not dictate what phonics skills we have to teach and which sight word lists to practice, so I came up with a yearly scope and sequence that I am pretty happy with! At the end of this post you'll find a link to a bunch of freebies. This chart is in there (and it's editable). I have set aside about 20 minutes a day for sight words, poetry, and phonics. It usually works out to be about 5 minutes sight words, 5 minutes poetry, and 10 minutes phonics. My plan is to teach five sight words a week. My word lists come from Dolch, Fry's, and a few randoms thrown in! The phonics skills are based on what I feel my students need to work on Grade 1. We spend the first few weeks reviewing the alphabet sounds (I like Beverly Tyner's sequence.) Then we move onto short vowels, silent E, digraphs, long vowels, blends, bossy R, and some diphthongs. Even though I teach this stuff whole group, I do spend time in my guided reading groups doing more focused work on sight words or phonics skills too, depending on the group's needs. Each week I display the five sight words of the week on this little board. I bought a little white board from the dollar store, added the title and some clipart, and stuck on five little Stikki Clips. (Have you heard of these things? They are pretty neat. I bought them from Really Good Stuff. Apparently they stick super well to cinder block walls!) Each week I just stick the words in the clips. Easy peasy! At the end of the week we retire the words to the word wall and on Monday we put up five new words. Here's a peek at what we do all week long with these words: On Monday we introduce the sight words and practice them using some free chants from Cara Carroll at The First Grade Parade. Then we make a little mini book. Students cut apart the squares, staple it in the corner, and then practice tracing each sight word and colouring it (or rainbow writing it). They keep these mini books in their book boxes for a couple weeks to practice the sight words. They can read them during "read to self" time. On Tuesday we make and break the words. I scramble up the letters in each word and we practice putting them back together. I do this on the Mimio, but you can just use magnetic letters. On Wednesday we play Guess the Word. It's like hangman. I put dashes up for each letter in the word and the students take turns guessing letters. I cross off the letters they guess and cross off a section of the picture each time they make an incorrect guess. There are ten different monthly themed pictures. I don't just use the words of the week--I take any word from the word wall! On Thursday we read the Mystery Sentences. I write five sentences that each have one of the words of the week in it. We read the sentences together and try to figure out the missing word. On Friday we play Swat the Sight Word. On the projector I display a page with the five words all over it. I choose two students, give them each a fly swatter, and call out one of the words. The students try to swat the word. I love this because there's not one winner; they can both find and swat a sight word! :) They love this game! **I don't have any of the Mimio files for you to download, but I have put a blank PDF version of the four activities (Tues-Fri) into the freebie file. You can import the PDF into Mimio or Smart Notebook and add your own text to create the activities yourself. I have also included my sight word books and an editable version so you can put in your own five sight words.** I keep all of my sight word stuff for the week in page protectors in my Phonics & Sight Words binders (blogged about this here). The sight word lists are three weeks of sight words. I use them during Word Work. I'll blog about this more later! I number the back of all my word wall cards so that at the end of the year I can easily organize them back into the proper week. After our sight word activity, we look at the poem of the week. I have poems from a variety of different sources, but mostly I use Deedee Wills' Poetry Station Packs. They are amazing! I place the poem onto sentence strips and display them on a large pocket chart. On Monday we read the poem together, on Tuesday we look for certain letters or phonics skills, on Wednesday we ready in different voices for fluency practice, on Thursday we highlight our word wall words in the poem, and on Friday we put the poem in our poetry folders. Sometimes we will highlight the word wall words in our folder or draw a picture to go with the poem. Then we have phonics time. On Mondays I usually introduce the phonics skill with a story, such as the Scholastic Phonics Tales. Then we brainstorm a list of words that contain that phonics skill on chart paper. On Tuesdays we usually do some sort of phonics activity. My students love Babbling Abby's Highlight a Word from her Word Work packs. On Wednesday we usually do a read and match activity together. These cards are from Reagan Tunstall's Big Phonics Bundle. I love this bundle! It has so many activities for so many phonics skills!! It is well worth the price. On Thursday we do another phonics activity... this might be a cut and paste activity or a read the room activity. I have so many things in my files from The Mailbox Magazine or other TpTers. I might also have a Phonics Read the Room pack in the works... but we'll see about that! ;) On Friday we usually play Roll & Cover or Roll & Write. I photocopy the black & white versions of these games onto coloured paper so we can play as a whole group. Then I place a few laminated, coloured versions of the game in our word work centres so students can play them again during guided reading time. I keep all of my phonics stuff for the week in page protectors in my Phonics & Sight Words binders (read about this here). The first five weeks of school are a little bit different for phonics because we are reviewing our alphabet sounds. We still do sight words each work (although the very first week of school we just focus on our names) and we do a poem of the week, but each week we focus on five (or six) letter sounds. I like to use Beverly Tyner's sequence. (If you haven't read any of her books, check out Small-Group Reading Instruction. It's really great!) I'm planning on using activities from my new Alphabet Practice pack. Each week the activities are the same, but it focuses on a different set of letters. The first week is BSMAC, then TDLRI, JGHON, PUQWY, and lastly ZXEVKF. On Monday we will practice the sounds that each letter make by chanting "b says /b/, m says /m/, etc." We sometimes add an action to go with it, like biting an apple for /a/ or bouncing a ball for /b/. Then we do a card sort in the pocket chart. We will sort the picture cards based on their initial sound (or final sound with X). On Tuesday students will do a colour code activity. They have to write the initial letter of each word, then colour the picture using the colour code. Great practice for those colour words as well! Then when they are done, they can play Spin to the Top. They spin an uppercase letter and practice tracing the letters. When one letter reaches the top, they win! On Wednesday we do a read the room activity. I place 12 cards around the room. Students find the card and write down the letter the word starts with beside the correct number. When done, they do a letter search on the back. They circle and count each type of letter and write number beside it. Great for identifying letters in different fonts! On Thursday we do a cut and paste sort. Students have to glue the correct lowercase letter and two beginning sound pictures beside the correct train engine. Then when they are done, they can play Roll to the Top. They roll a die and practice tracing the correct lowercase letters. When one letter reaches the top, they win! On Friday we play a game. Either small group beginning sound BINGO (included in my Alphabet Practice pack), Roll & Cover, or Roll & Write. Check out these products by clicking the pictures below. Well I hope that gives you some good ideas for teaching sight words, poetry, or phonics! Click the picture below to download some of the freebies from this post.
This Noun Sorting Worksheet is a great resource for students to sort examples of nouns into categories. This will help them gain a better understanding of parts of speech. Noun Sorting Worksheet
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Today I wanted to stop by and share some strategies for teaching vowel teams and diphthongs in our classroom! It’s always challenging to teach spelling patterns that aren’t easily decodable! […]
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Click the following link to download this free poster Homophones Poster Many reading programs introduce the concept of homophones in second grade. Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have a different meaning. Our students need to be able to tell the difference in the meanings of these words and to use […]
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Fundations® Level 3 Unit 13 compatible This unit covers silent letters wr, kn, gn, mb as well as the Greek Digraphs ph and ch. I made this to support Fundations®Level 3 of the Unit 13 (second edition) program. It is suitable for any phonics program. Totally No Prep. Anchor charts for ph and ch co...
The 6 Types Of Syllables plus free syllables posters! Learn what a syllable is, how to count syllables, and the 6 different types of syllables.
Find out what phonograms are and why they are important when teaching reading and spelling. Download three printable games!
Learn how to teach silent e words through explicit phonics instruction. Use orthographic mapping, connecting sound to symbol. Learn about the many jobs of the silent e!
Teaching morphology can be a great way to help students with understanding unknown words, decoding multisyllabic words, and spelling.
Fill in Missing Letters in Words Starting With Consonant Blends and Digraphs #11: A printout about consonant blends for early readers: slide, whisk, scale, shadow, clarinet, shirt, dream, slug, stump, graph, slide, whisk.
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This worksheet is a great way for students to practice choosing the correct homophone for a sentence. The word bank is a helpful tool for students who are struggling with homophone recognition. Choosing Homophones Worksheet
This activity is designed to explain the rules of adding -ing to words in a simple and fun way. My kids love this and they eager to find other words. No extra prep is needed, just print and fold. Students will understand the rules through the examples given. Includes : 1 page of instruction 1 page of add ing 1 page of drop the e and add ing 1 page of double the last letter and add ing 1 page of words ends with IE and W,X,Y I also have another fold and learn resources. How to Add -s/es Rules How to Add -d/ed Rules SAVE with BUNDLE I hope you and the kids will enjoy it and don't forget to give some review for your TpT credits :) Please pass my store link to anyone else interested in the product, files are for personal and individual (or one classroom) use only. THANK YOU :)
K takes i and e, C takes the other 3! Printable phonics poster with visuals. Great poster for early phonics instruction. For more great phonics visuals, click on the links below: To, Two, Too Poster Consonant + le Poster
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Is your child ready to read 2-syllable words? Great! Here are teaching tips for the most common early reading problems and fun activity ideas to keep your child engaged!
It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllable words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]
Our Spelling dictation words this week are focusing on plurals. I'm a bit worried about introducing this concept with ELL learners, so I th...
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Introducing students to challenging words through Word of the Week can help increase their confidence in reading, writing, & speaking.
Today I wanted to stop by and share some strategies for teaching vowel teams and diphthongs in our classroom! It’s always challenging to teach spelling patterns that aren’t easily decodable! […]
It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]
Free Consonant Digraphs Posters for immediate download and print. Laminate and hang these in your classroom or homeroom setting for great visuals.
In this pack you will find 8 different spelling rules / anchor charts. Each rule has its own activity sheet to go with it. The pack is suitable for Grades 2 – 5. The posters can always be used in any classroom too. The anchor charts can double as a poster if you enlarge it to A3 size and mount onto card. The following spelling rules / anchor charts and activities included in this package are: ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ Change ‘y’ to ‘ies’ Drop the ‘e’ Changing the ‘f’ Adding ‘es’ CVC Doubling up Double f,l, s or z ‘q’ and ‘u’ I have recently added my Boom Card set as a bonus. You may also be interested in the following products Daily Spelling Activities x 20 (Grades 1-4) Daily Spelling Activities x 20 (Grades 4-8) Parts of Speech and Punctuation Activities (40 Pages)
