Spider Web Phonics Practice – Free Printables!
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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 the web. Use it when you’re celebrating Halloween or any time for focused phonics skills practice!
🕷️ It’s Meaningful
While kids are having fun creating a spider web full of trapped bugs, they’re also practicing and improving their reading and fluency skills! We’re targeting the foundational phonics skills students need in order to be successful readers.
🕷️ Easy to Differentiate
Teachers can easily differentiate this activity by simply using different skills and words. All kids are working on the same activity, but it’s individualized practice.
You can use it with a whole group, small group, or as independent work.
🕷️ Multi-sensory Engagement
Kids are engaging multiple senses as they color, cut, paste, write, read, and listen, all while identifying different speech sounds and phonics skills in words. As an Orton Gillingham Certified teacher, I always try to engage multiple senses while explicitly teaching!
🕷️ It’s Low Prep
It will take you less than 5 minutes to prep this activity for multiple groups. Simply print and write in the 9 words before making copies!
Using the Printables
Prep Work: Teachers write the phonics skill you’re targeting on the spider. Either write or dictate 9 words to write on the bugs.
I usually include 6 words that include the phonics skill and 3 words that don’t, but are similar or tricky. Use any of our phonics word lists to make this easy!
Activity Time: Kids will need scissors, glue, and crayons. Kids should write the phonics skill on the spider, then carefully read the words on the bugs.
The bugs that contain the phonics skill get “trapped” on the web (cut out and glued on the web), and the ones that don’t get to escape (leave them off)!
Last, kids read through all of the words on the web out loud three times for fluency, coloring in one of the moons each time.
Extension Ideas
Encoding practice: Challenge kids to come up with more words that contain the phonics concept, and to write the words on the spaces of the spider web! It’s always fun to see how many words my students can come up with!
Connect words to meaning: Flip the page over and have students choose two words to use in a sentence or to draw as pictures.
Put them on display! Once all your students have finished, display them in the hall! It looks really fun, but I’ve noticed other students will stop and read through the words sometimes!
Related Resources
- Roll & Read Games for ALL Phonics Skills
- Pumpkin Magnet Letter Word Building
- All About Orthographic Mapping
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