Promote Five Skills in One Fun Activity

This activity promotes five skills: listening, following directions, identifying colors, identifying shapes and identifying position words. In the example below the child was asked to place the blue bear on the yellow circle.  Then place the yellow bear on the green square next to the blue bear and the red bear on the red circle behind the yellow bear. If the child is successful continue -  place a yellow bear on the blue circle in front of the blue bear.....  An option is to have the child then give the directions.

Many objects can be used for this activity.

To make the mat, cut out several shapes in different colors and paste on an expanded file folder and laminate.







 

          



A Fishing We Will Go!

A Fishing We Will Go Is a fun learning activity for summer!  A deck of word cards is provided for each reading activity of increasing skill difficulty: letter recognition, word endings, syllabication…  The game played is determined by children’s current skill level.  Players take turns selecting a card from the deck.  They then must go fishing for the two fish that make the match.  If they are correct they keep the two fish and the word card.  If they aren’t correct they must return the fish to the water (blue tag board) and place word card back into the deck.  The player with the most fish wins the game.

Below is an example of the onset and rime activity.  The player has selected the word card - top.  The player must then correctly select the fish with the onset and a second fish with the rime.

Below is a list of items that are needed for the activities.  This is followed by instructions, templates for word cards and fish patterns.

Instructions for making the fish

Word card lists for the three examples: Letter Match, Onset and Rimes and Syllables

Word Cards for Letter Match

Word Card for Onset and Rimes Match

Word Cards for Syllable Match

Fish Patterns

Onset and Rime Video with additional lists

Syllabication of Words with Double Letters

Yes, More Sneaky Letters!

Yes, More Sneaky Letters!

Igh is a team that makes the long i sound.

Ou is a vowel team that makes different sounds.  When the word is unknown the reader will need to use the context to help them determine the word. 

Ow is a vowel team that can makes either the ow sound as in cow or the long o sound as in snow when the team appears at the end of a root word or before a final l or n.  In reading an unknown word, the reader should try both sounds to determine what makes sense.

Y can be a vowel or a consonant.  Y sounds like long e when it is at the end of a word or is part of a suffix: funny, happily. Y sounds like long i when it is the only vowel in the root of the word, and is the very last letter of the word: cry, try.  Y sounds like short i when it is within a syllable: gym, symbol. Y becomes a consonant when it occurs at the beginning of a word or syllable.  It makes the y sound: yes, canyon.

Sorting Mat for ou

Word Cards for Sorting Activity ou

Sorting Mat for ow

Word Cards for Activity ow

Sorting Mat for y

Word Cards for Activity y

Video

A Multi-Sensory Approach to Teaching Word Patterns

Letter Trays and Letters - blue represents consonants, yellow represents vowels and green represents the letter y that can be either a consonant or a vowel. Implement today with word cards and short and long word printables! Extend activity to include other word patterns.

Add a silent e and change the sound of the first vowel from short to long.  Now the verb says its name! This is a multi-sensory approach to teach phonics: picture word support (visual), placing the beads on the letters and moving the letter cards to make the correct words - kinesthetic (movement/touch), and reading the words aloud (auditory). 

Short and long vowel a words

Printable short and long vowel a words

Printable short and long vowel i words

Printable letter cards

Video - Sorting short and long vowel words

Sneaky letters that make more than one sound

Sneaky consonant letters are letters that make different sounds- Helpful hints will help children know what sound the letter(s) make and  help them correctly decode and read unknown words.

Let's look at sneaky letters: c, g, ed, s, ph, and kn

The letter c can make the k sound and the s sound.  The letter g can make the g sound and the j sound.

The letters ed can make the d sound, the id sound and the t sound.  The letter s can make the s sound and the z sound.

Helpful hints to make the correct sound for the sneaky letters ed.

Helpful hint to make the correct sound for the letter s

More sneaky letters. The letters ph make the f sound.  The letters kn make the n sound

Sneaky Letter Bingo Fun!

Sneaky letter bingo cards for the letter c.

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Sneaky letter bingo cards for the sneaky letter g.

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Bingo Words for Bingo Cards c and g.

Sneaky letter bingo cards for the letters ed

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Letter Cards for sneaky letters ed.

Video Explaining Sneaky Letters and Additional Bingo Cards

Name that Syllabication Rule: Words with Double Consonants

Teach children the syllabication rules for dividing words with double consonants: waffle, puppy, egg, dinner, Teddy, soccer, carrot, and hammer.

Each syllable consists of one vowel sound.  The sound may be produced by a single vowel:  bell, puppy or it may be produced by a vowel pair: succeed, balloon. 

Teach/Review the  VCCV  (Vowel-Consonant-Consonant-Vowel)  rule with students.

Have children practice the rule with the following words.

There are many one syllable words that end in double consonants.

Have children practice the rules with the following words.

Additional rule: When double consonants are followed by le divide syllables between the consonants. 

Have children practice the rules with the following words.

Words used in practice activities and in video activities (name that rule).

Additional activity pages and activities can be viewed in the video.  Video is fun to watch with children and can be paused to discuss the rules and how they apply to words.