Education resources for parents and teachers
My Four knows his beginning sounds without any trouble, but hearing the two distinct sounds in a blend is difficult for him. When he worked on our beginning blends clip cards, I could see that we needed to take things back a step. And that brings us to... Blends and Digraphs Bingo It's a giant set of 27 free bingo boards to help your child hear the sounds of beginning blends (fr, tr, cl, pr, ... Read More
We're almost at the end of our collection of free phonics books. Here's set 21! (This post contains affiliate links.) For the last few sets, we've been working on two-syllable words. For this set, I chose two-syllable words with these word endings: le, el, ar, er, and or. Here's a sample book! You'll notice that I put the word ending in a different color. Your child should be able to read the first chunk using ... Read More
Yay - more phonics books! This is a set of four books featuring VCV words. (This post contains affiliate links.) So... are you wondering what a VCV word is? Don't worry - it's not complicated. VCV simply means vowel-consonant-vowel. It's a pattern we find in many two-syllable words. VCV words can be either open or closed. Let's look at a few examples. Here's an open syllable VCV word. The first syllable is ... Read More
Is your child ready to read two-syllable words? Help him learn to read VCCV words with this set of printable books. So. What are VCCV words, anyway? It's very simple. A VCCV word is a two-syllable words with the pattern vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel in the middle of the word. The word breaks into two syllables after the first consonant. Here are just a few of the VCCV words that you'll find in the readers: ... Read More
Help your child gain confidence reading short a words! Have you seen our word slider cards? The concept is simple. 1. Write a short vowel word on a long strip of paper, being sure to separate each phoneme (distinct sound). Blends, which have two sounds, are separated, but digraphs (sh, th, ch, wh) are not. 2. Seal a business-sized envelope and cut off the end. Insert the strip of ... Read More
Silent e words are tricky to read and spell. Try this free printable to help your child master them! Are you ready to teach your students how to make and read CVCE words? Each of these cards has a short vowel word for students to read first. By printing the word endings and attaching craft sticks, your student has two "magic wands" that can change those short vowel words into ... Read More
Teach kids about contractions with my new set of phonics readers! (This post contains affiliate links.) Are you teaching your students how to read and write contractions? Contractions aren't exactly a high interest topic, but these funny books will liven them up! These five printable books are set 18 in my collection of free phonics books. Use them with the rest of my readers, or use this as a stand-alone set when ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a giant printable. It's a classroom set of the rhyming game, Rhyming Bingo! One of the rhyming games my kids have enjoyed is the Rhyming Bingo I bought from a teacher supply store. But there are a few things about the game that bug me. One thing is that some of the words that the teacher calls are the same as the pictures on the boards. So we always have to distinguish, ... Read More
Looking for a way to help your child practice reading compound words? Try these! (This post contains affiliate links.) Today I'm sharing set 17 of my free phonics readers: compound words! What I love about this set is its many opportunities for review. Since compound words are made of two separate words, your child has the opportunity to review two previously learned patterns on every page. Let's check out a ... Read More
Looking for beginning sounds worksheets? We've got a set of 26! In the download, you'll get one page for every letter of the alphabet. Each page focuses on a single sound, even for letters which have two sounds (a, e, i, o, u, g, and c) . By naming the big picture at the bottom right, your child will be able to figure out the sound of the focus letter. ("/a/ /a/ Alligator.") I ... Read More
