Free and engaging resources designed for children to master the foundational skills of explicit phonics instruction.
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These fun fall-themed printables are totally free! Use the printable pumpkins with letters and digraphs written on them to build words on a wagon! Why We Love It Take a trip to the pumpkin patch with these Fall word wagon free printables. Get pumpkin letters, digraphs, and blank cards to totally customize this for your…
These FREE pumpkin-themed printables are great for short vowel sounds practice with CVC words. Kids “place the pumpkins” to build real and nonsense words, then write them on the recording sheet. Why We Love It No Prep, High Impact: Busy teachers love resources like this that require no prep but still deliver solid educational value….
Get this engaging Fall-themed Roll & Write activity for spelling words with Consonant Blends! These free printables follow a speech-to-print format and are great for phonics centers and independent work! Why We Love It This Roll & Write activity is designed with a speech-to-print format that helps kids encode words with blends. It follows the…
This cut & paste spider web activity gives kids lots of engaging practice identifying and decoding words with any phonics skill! Get these fun and FREE printables below! 🕸️ Why We Love It There are lots of reasons to love this bug-tastic phonics activity! Kids will have a blast while trapping the phonics bugs on…
Get 5 free printable Rhyming Words Worksheets for preschool and kindergarten students! Kids will practice identifying and generating rhyming words in fun and engaging ways. What Is Rhyme? Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the end of words. When words rhyme, they share the same ending sounds, starting from the vowel sound through all…
Get 50+ pages of free, no-prep printable word lists that cover tons of phonics skills! They’ll save you time in planning and prep while creating impactful reading and spelling lessons. Ways to Use Word Lists We know from Science of Reading-aligned research that ALL students benefit from structured literacy, with systematic and explicit instruction that…
Get 5 FREE Halloween CVC word Roll & Read printable game boards! This is a great activity for kindergarteners and first graders to practice decoding CVC words. Why We Love It Gamification is all about making lessons fun and increasing engagement. With these free printable games, kids have Halloween fun while decoding CVC words! Kids…
Did you know vowels and consonants are sounds, not letters?! Review the definitions, characteristics, examples, and the differences between vowels and consonants to better understand and teach this foundational information. What Are Vowels and Consonants? Let’s start by reviewing some important background information. All words in the English language are made up of a combination…
Learn all about the two sounds of OW. Review the sounds, get practical teaching tips, and download a FREE printable memory hook graphic and practice worksheet for student learning! Two Sounds of OW OW is a grapheme that can represent two different phonemes (sounds) – /ow/ like cow AND /ō/ like snow. ❄ OW spells…
Get a free printable list of 121 one-syllable words with the short U sound. Read all about teaching the short U sound, get ideas for working with students, and then download a free pdf printable! About the Short U Sound Short /ŭ/ is a vowel sound. The sound is represented by the letter U, and…