Elementary School Phonics Resources

Phonics skills-based differentiated "Guess Who Game" for Vowel Pairs

Get ready to supercharge your students' phonemic awareness with this incredible printable PDF game! Designed specifically for long vowel sounds review, this game is the perfect tool to help your students practice identifying and reading long vowel sounds in CVVC and CVCe words.

With its engaging and interactive format, this game will keep your students fully engaged and motivated as they work to master these important skills. Whether you're a teacher looking for a fun and effective way to reinforce long vowel sounds, or a parent looking to help your child improve their reading skills, this game is the perfect solution.

So why wait? Give your students the gift of phonemic awareness mastery with this amazing printable PDF game today!

Engage your elementary school ELA students by using this phonics game to practice reading words with vowel pairs. Ideas for differentiation and prompting are included to ensure the game is suitable for students of all academic levels. This game also includes three levels of word difficulty- from simple words to multi-syllabic words. The sets of cards are notated with different colored inner borders so you can easily tell them apart.

This activity is perfect for elementary school reading and ELA centers, elementary school reading and ELA lesson plans, small group instruction, extra help sessions, early finishers, group/partner work, classroom competitions, individual practice, and so much more. 

What's included

• 72 "word pile" cards- 24 for each level
• 72 red board inserts- 24 for each level
• 72 blue board inserts- 24 for each level
• 40 question prompts
• Directions for five different ways to play (for individual players, two players, or small group)
• Guess Who game board linked here (NOT INCLUDED IN DOWNLOAD)

You may also like the Guess Who Reading Games Bundle

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This Letter Puzzle is an engaging letter game designed to develop first-sound fluency and letter-sound recognition in young learners. Each puzzle presents a colorful illustration of an animal, object, or character, accompanied by a selection of black and white pictures representing the sounds heard at the beginning of the word. The objective is simple: match the correct picture to the corresponding sound of the letter.

As children explore the puzzles, they're not only honing their ability to identify initial sounds but also reinforcing their understanding of letter-sound correspondence. With a range of vibrant and appealing visuals, the game offers an immersive learning experience that captures children's attention and motivates them to participate actively.

Why You Will Want to Use This Letter Puzzle:

1. Foundational Literacy Skills: The Letter Puzzle provides an interactive platform for children to develop essential literacy skills from an early age. By focusing on first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, it lays a solid foundation for future reading and writing success.
2. Engaging and Interactive Learning: Unlike traditional flashcards or worksheets, The Letter Puzzle transforms letter practice into an exciting adventure. Children are drawn into the game's world of colorful illustrations and playful challenges, making learning feel like play.
3. Positive Reinforcement: Every correct match in the Letter Puzzle is met with immediate feedback and encouragement, fostering a sense of accomplishment and boosting children's confidence in their letter-sound skills.
4. Great for Centers: Playing with the Letter Puzzle can be a great way to work on the alphabet and keep them engaged. No more wondering and coming to interrupt small groups!

In conclusion, the Letter Puzzle offers a delightful way for children to practice first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, paving the way for successful literacy development. With its engaging gameplay and educational benefits, parents can feel confident in using this puzzle game to support their early literacy journey.

When learning to read children must be taught patterns systematically and explicitly. After they are taught a pattern like blends they should read and spell words with that pattern in isolation and then read stories with the pattern!

These books help your child practice reading blends and high-frequency words in a fun and engaging story! Read the back of the book to engage them in the story. It has a question so that they can read to find the answer!

These books will help your little one feel confident in their reading and feel just like a big kid because they can read their very own book!

These books cover beginning and ending blends:

st

gl

pl

fl

cl

pl

fr

gr

tr

br

sk

sw

tw

ng

lp

nt

mp

These books are very little prep! Print, staple, READ!

This packet is perfect to get your 4-year-old ready for Kindergarten! I created this resource to align with the Early Learning Core Standards for 4-year-olds. This packet is FUN and ENGAGING to get your kids excited about learning! The best part about this packet is that there IS NO PREP! Just print and it is ready to go! I have planned out each day for you, these practice pages will last 7 weeks!

The packet supports the following skills: nursery rhymes, rhyming pages, first-sound fluency, letter names and sounds, counting, numbers, number sense, and shapes.

This is perfect to work on over the summer to help get your child ready for Kindergarten or to work on skills they may need in Kindergarten that have not yet mastered!

Early readers need to read text that is decodable! If your child is working on reading CVC words and high-frequency words these passages are perfect! When they read a decodable reader it gives them confidence in reading stories and it helps them practice the phonics skill they are working on! These decodable passages have two options. One is scaffolded so that they can practice reading the words in isolation that they will see in the text. Tip-you can highlight the CVC words and high-frequency words they read in isolation in the text.

Included:

10 vowel-specific passages

8 Mixed vowel passages

Comprehension for all stories

Scaffolded Passage and Regular Passage

These stories are NO PREP and FUN. All you need to do is print, fold, and staple! They will print out in the order needed so it is fast and easy for you!

These decodable readers will ENGAGE your students! They will be begging to read them because.....

1. They will build confidence

2. They have fun and colorful pictures

3. It feels like you are reading a REAL book

4. The back has an introduction to the story with a question so you can engage the students in the story before reading

Included:

• 5 books
• Instructions on how to use
• A parent guide so you can support your child while they read!
• Sound, word, and high-frequency word practice for each book

These are great for your beginning reader groups that are still learning to read! They will be able to sound out the MAJORITY of these words. In the entire set, there are only 13 high-frequency words!

In this product, you gain access to board games, bingo games, and roll and read games that you can use during small group time! You can also use the bingo games as a whole class to review the skill!

Beginning Blends

bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl

br, cr, dr, gr, fr, pr, tr

sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, str, sw

End Blends

nd, sk, st, ft, sp, nt, nk, lt, ct, lt

*All vowels are short vowels

To get a pattern to STICK in a new readers brain we need to read AND spell with a word and provide context. These self-correcting picture cards are perfect to achieve that goal!

Within this product your child will be exposed to beginning and end blends with short vowels. You can have the child read the card and flip it over to see if the picture matches the word or you can use the spelling mats to have the child look at the picture, say the word, and spell the word. When they are done they can flip the card over to check their spelling.

When learning to read children must be taught patterns systematically and explicitly. After they are taught a pattern like blends they should read and spell words with that pattern in isolation and then read stories with the pattern!

These books help your child practice reading digraphs and high-frequency words in a fun and engaging story! Read the back of the book to engage them in the story. It has a question so that they can read to find the answer!

These books will help your little one feel confident in their reading and feel just like a big kid because they can read their very own book!

These books cover:

sh

ch

th

ck

4 books in total

*Because there are very few words for wh that have a short vowel I didn't make a book specifically for wh. Instead, I put words throughout all the books with the digraph wh.

These books are very little prep! Print, staple, READ!

Handwriting improves a student's ability to recall information, make connections between different concepts, and synthesize information in new ways!

My handwriting book includes:

• Mnemonic keywords and pictures (this will help with memory of letter name and sound as they practice the writing of the letter)
• Letter formation sayings and pictures for where to start and end your letters
• Sentence Practice
• Binding edge so that you can place it in folders with sheet protectors to use with dry erase markers, staple or coil bind together to use fun pens, glitter crayons, colored pencils, markers, etc!

When a student can produce the letters correctly and quickly, they will use less brain power when writing words and sentences!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

These posters help children to identify the pattern in words, how they are used, how to correctly map the sounds, and how to mark the word when spelling.

As a teacher, I was always struggling to remember each rule or pattern for the syllable types or patterns I was teaching! These are great to support YOU and your STUDENTS. You can cover them up when you haven't learned a pattern yet and they get to "unlock" the code as you work on that lesson!

Includes:

6 syllable types

The 7 jobs of silent e

Word Families

Prefixes and suffixes (how to map them) & what the prefixes and suffixes are and what their definition is

Homophones, homographs, homonyms

These keyword letter cards will help your students remember their sounds! When you add pictures and keywords research has shown it helps in the retention and retrieval of information.

Included:

• Mnemonic keywords
• All 26 letters of the alphabet
• Long Vowels
• Digraphs; th (voiced and unvoiced), ch, sh, ck, ph, wh

Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These cards are so much fun my students beg me to work with them! I let them choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

The cards are broken into each vowel so that you can easily practice phonemic awareness with the vowel you are working on. You can also mix them up so they can practice the skill for each vowel!

-Includes

-vowels; ar,or,er,ur,ir

-R-controlled vowel words with a picture

-Sound boxes on the front

-The word and amount of sounds on the back for self-correction!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

Reading and letters can be FUN! These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on each skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small-groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time!

Includes:

All 26 letters of the alphabet

Letter names and sounds

Reading words with word families

Reading words with short vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

Reading 1-25 Zeno High-Frequency Words

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

It is important for a child to understand what a syllable IS and how to break words apart into syllables! When children begin to read and write multisyllabic words it will be vital they understand how to break the word into their syllables! This is a great hands-on and engaging way to work on syllables! Pick a manipulative that your child wants to use and get to work! Use them in centers or during small group!

There is no prep needed! Print and get to work! The alphabet needs to be automatic for our little learners to learn to read! They need to know its name, sound, and formation, and that these letters are represented in words in stories! These letter practice pages are great to meet the needs listed above! My mnemonic device at the top will give the child a great way to remember their letters!

Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These cards are so much fun my students beg me to work with them! I let them choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

The cards are broken into each vowel sound so that you can easily practice phonemic awareness with the vowel you are working on. You can also mix them up so they can practice the skill for each vowel!

-Includes

-a,e,i,o,u

-CVC words with a picture

-Sound boxes on the front

-The word and amount of sounds on the back for self-correction!

Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These cards are so much fun my students beg me to work with them! I let them choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

The cards are broken into each vowel so that you can easily practice phonemic awareness with the vowel you are working on. You can also mix them up so they can practice the skill for each vowel!

-Includes

-vowels; a,e,i,o,u

-VCe words with a picture

-Sound boxes on the front

-The word and amount of sounds on the back for self-correction!