As I learn more about the Science of Reading, I have been completely throwing out my old lessons and activities and creating new literacy resources. Over the last year, I have been developing short vowel CVC word activities. They were designed for preschool and kindergarteners, but I have used them with students as high as …
Snowflake Decoding Practice for Short Vowel Word Activities
These letter cards are used daily for the first few minutes of reading instruction in January and February. Then, I print, laminate, and cut each card out for prep. I have used similar cards since August so that children will understand the activity by January. This month, we added blends to build CVC words and …
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Word Family Activities and Games
We have been working on learning CVC and word families this week. I tried coming up with some simple, fun games my kids can play independently to practice and feel more confident. I'll be expanding the list of resources we have been using, but here are the word family activities and games we loved this …