Learning Sound/Letter Patterns Made Easy and Fun!

Learning Sound/Letter Patterns Made Easy - So many rules to learn - make them fun and make them memorable so that kids can apply decoding rules/skills in print!  Post includes teaching materials and strategies for vowel pairs, CVC silent e and beginning and ending consonant digraph patterns.  Activities can be adapted for use as learning centers, small group instruction or whole class instruction.  For learning centers and small group instruction,  print the individual puzzle pieces and puzzle boards on tag board. Laminate and use as a center. For whole class instruction print out puzzle pieces and puzzle board on paper for each student.  Have them cut out the puzzle pieces and paste them on the puzzle board to identify each of the sound/letter patterns. Examples, resource charts, answer sheets, templates, and phonics quiz video are below.
Vowel Digraph Puzzles
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CVC silent-e Puzzles

 

Consonant Digraphs - Ending and Beginning

Long Vowel Digraph Chart For Student Reference

 

Answer Sheet for Vowel Digraph Puzzles

 

Vowel Digraph Puzzle Board

 CVC-Silent e (Long Vowel Pattern) Chart for Student Reference

 

Answer Sheet for CVC-silent e Patterns

CVC silent e Puzzle Board

Consonant Digraph Chart for Student Reference

Consonant Digraph Answer Sheet

 

 

Use as a Model Template to Introduce Activity

Puzzle Pieces for the Introduction Lesson