Decoding Strategies and Activities

Decoding Strategies - Applying CVC, CVC-Silent e, Consonant Digraphs, Vowel Digraphs and Consonant Blend rules

Consonant, Vowel, Consonant  and Consonant, Vowel, Consonant,  Silent e

Class Example Reviewing Every Word Needs at Least One Vowel

Student Completed Example CVC Words

Templates For Students To Complete
CVC

CVC Silent E

Consonant Digraph, Vowel, Consonant

Consonant Digraph, Vowel, Consonant

 

Student Template to Complete

Digraphs That Make the Sound /f/

Demonstration

Student Template for gh and ph

Consonant blend, Vowel Digraph, Consonant

 Sorting Board

Words for Sorting Board

Same Letters, Different Words

How Many Words Can You Make With These Letters?

Activities to complete while/after reading the book, There Was An Old Mermaid Who Swallowed A Shark

Activities to complete while/ after reading the book, There Was An Old Mermaid Who Swallowed A Shark

 Template used in the activity above

 Interactive Journal

Have students cut around the rectangle.  Then have them fold along the bold line under the headings. Next, have them cut along the lines separating the categories and  stop cutting when they reach the fold.  Finally, have them past the heading section (from the fold to the top) on a page in their journals. 



Have students cut out the six pictures, sequence them and paste them under the correct heading.

 Next, create a class Venn diagram to compare the story of the Mermaid with the story,  There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books

 As a class, complete the Venn diagram

Next, have students complete  their Interactive Journal Venn diagrams

 Have students cut out and paste the Venn diagram on a page in their journals.

 Have students color, cut and paste the pictures on the Venn Diagram

 Pictures for the class Venn Diagram

Behavior Bees and Interactive Journals

Behavior Bees and Interactive Journals to review expected behaviors.  Have children complete the pages in their interactive journals

Interactive Journal Examples - color and write

Next, color and write the behaviors talked about. Over a four day period, have children complete all the behaviors in their interactive journals

Below are all templates for the poster and interactive journals

The hives list the expected

behaviors