2nd Grade Phonics Resources

UPDATED TO INCLUDE EDITABLE GOOGLE SLIDES PERFECT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING.

These stories each focus on a different vowel to encourage long and short vowel sounds identification and differentiation. The stories also allow students the opportunity to practice sequencing the events in the story after they've read it.

Now digital and printable!

Serve up some phonics fun with this pizza-themed vowel sound sorting activity! Print, laminate, and cut out the pizza crusts and pepperonis. Your students will sort the pepperonis onto the correct pizzas by matching the pictures to the vowel sounds they contain. These fun pizzas will help your students learn to differentiate vowel sounds for all vowels. Clip art from Pink Cat Studio, Anika, and Preschool Curriculum

For more foodie fun, download my Sight Word Spaghetti!

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Phonics skills-based differentiated "Guess Who Game" for Digraphs TH and SH

Get ready to supercharge your students' phonics skills with our printable pdf "Guess Who" game!  This game is the ultimate tool for helping your students improve their spelling and reading  decodable words with digraphs. With its fun and engaging gameplay, your students won't even  realize they're learning!  

This game is perfect for students of all ages and skill levels, and it's easy to use. Simply print out  the game sheets and let your students get to work. They'll love trying to guess the mystery word by  reading and spelling out the decodable words with digraphs.  

This "Guess Who" game is designed to make learning phonics fun and exciting. It's a great way to  reinforce the skills your students are learning in the classroom, and it's also a fantastic tool for at home learning.  

So what are you waiting for? Help your students become phonics superstars with our "Guess Who"  game today! 

Engage your elementary school ELA students by using this phonics game to practice reading words with digraphs TH and SH. Ideas for differentiation and prompting are included to ensure the game is suitable for students of all academic levels.

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

• 24 "word pile" cards
• 24 red board inserts
• 24 blue board inserts
• 24 red question prompts
• 24 blue 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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Students will read and sort words based on common vowel pair sounds ea, ai, and oa. Visuals are added as prompts to help the students remember the sounds.

Popcorn Pathway is a fun way to help students practice CVC words with the short O sound. This is a perfect game for small group stations or to play during free time. Directions are included, but you are encouraged to change up the rules to according to your students' needs.

Phonics skills-based differentiated "Guess Who Game" for words with the LONG A sound

Engage your elementary school ELA students by using this phonics game to practice reading words with long A sounds. Ideas for differentiation and prompting are included to ensure the game is suitable for students of all academic levels.

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

• 24 "word pile" cards
• 24 red board inserts
• 24 blue board inserts
• 15 red question prompts
• 15 blue 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

If you like this product check out others at my store by clicking here.

Feel free to reach out to me rebekah@rebekahpoeteaching with any questions you may have or find me on Instagram @RebekahPoeTeaching

Looking for simple but elegant alphabet posters that are designed with students in mind? I've got you covered! No matter your need, you are sure to find one of the four included designs to be exactly what you've been wanting.

With letters printed in both upper and lower case in an easy-to-read, elementary-friendly font, these posters are the perfect addition to your elementary classroom.

Available in pink or black letters, with or without clip art. (Two designs are included for the letter X- just so you are aware; I prefer the boX, but you might want X-ray, so that's included for you, too.)

Print on cardstock and laminate for extra durability.

Number Posters in the same design are also available! Check them out here!

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Students can use this blending board to "drive" small cars to each letter, stopping at the circles to state the letter sounds. Students can "drive" the cars faster or more slowly to practice blending sounds to make words.

Looking for a simple phonemic awareness assessment in an elementary-friendly font? I've got you covered! This phonemic awareness assessment is perfect for reading readiness, assessments, special education, RtI, and more. Print the student version of the assessment and laminate or put inside page protectors. Reuse the same pages over and over again, saving you time and ink. Print the Teacher version to take notes and mark correct/incorrect responses. Use this product for progress monitoring and data collection.

Topics covered include:

Uppercase and lowercase letters

Consonant sounds

Vowel sounds

Long vowel teams

R-Controlled vowels

CVC words*

CVCe words*

Words with digraphs*

Words with consonant blends*

Words with long vowel teams*

Words with r-controlled vowels*

*includes "nonsense" words or "pseudo" words

Perfect for reading readiness, assessments, special education, RtI, and more.

Print and laminate alphabet arc, picture cards, and arrow. Punch a hole where indicated on the alphabet arc and attach the arrow to the arc with a brad. 

Students will draw a picture card, place it in the box under the arc, and match the picture to its beginning sound (with the exception of boX for X) by rotating the spinning arrow to point to the correct letter. Alternately, students could turn over a card and place it in front of them, rotate the arrow to the correct letter, and then write the letter with a dry erase marker in the box below the arc for additional writing practice. Pictures coordinate with the key words from the Phonics First program, but this product is in no way related to Orton-Gillingham or its affiliates.

Clip art from PicMonkey

Font is KG Red Hands

Designed on PicMonkey.com

Grab some red and white checked table clothes, play some Italian music, and grab these activities for a super simple, super FUN Italian restaurant themed classroom transformation.

NO PREP; SOR ALIGNED HIGH-FREQUENCY WORD PAGES| When we know better we do better! High-frequency words need to be mapped in our brains! I use this sheet as a quick practice for my students during small group or center time! I use the 107 Zeno word list because these words comprise 50% of all text. No need to teach 300 words! That is more work for you and your students! With this resource, you can easily differentiate what words you are teaching! Throw away the boring flashcards and opt for a resource that ACTUALLY WORKS!

You will gain access to board games, bingo games, and roll-and-read games that you can use for small-group instruction. You can also use the bingo game as a whole class for review!

Digraphs

sh

th

wh

ch

ck

*All vowels are short vowels

*Some of the words also include blends

Reading and orthographic mapping (spelling) go hand in hand! If you want your students to master the ability to read phonetic patterns they need to read words with the pattern, identify meaning, and map the sounds via spelling! These sheets are perfect to practice this skill! This product includes words with th, sh, ch, wh, and ck. All of the words have short vowels so these are great for those kiddos that haven't mastered reading other vowel patterns! I have a page for each digraph and pages where the digraphs are mixed!

These are great to use in centers, interventions, or as practice after teaching a lesson working with each digraph! The best part-NO PREP! Print and get to work!

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling with blends and digraphs.

My product includes:

• Instructions for use
• Real and nonsense words with blends and digraphs
• Words 28-55 from the Zeno Word List
• Spelling with blends and digraph words
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

Use in centers, small groups, or as an early finisher activity. My kids are always begging me to play this game!

This game includes all 107 Zeno Sight Words. I teach the 107 Sight Words because they are the most narrowed-down list of the most commonly used words in texts. It is important your child can read these words quickly and accurately for success in reading! 

I broke the words up into 8 sets so that each set would have 52 cards to keep the game engaging and not too long! This also allows you to easily differentiate the game by choosing the set that has more words that your child needs to work on! Each set is color-coded so if cards get mixed up you can easily find their place!

Included:

• Go Fish Rules

• 8 sets of cards

• Each set has 52 cards

• Endless amounts of fun!

*Prep time is needed. I suggest you print these on card stock and laminate them for more durability. Printing on normal paper will work too! Print the set of cards and cut them out!

It is important for your child to gain confidence when learning to read! They need to practice reading stories with the phonetic pattern they are learning! These decodable readers are perfect to work on sounds, reading digraphs, reading high-frequency words, and stories with digraphs. I have a scaffolded option that includes the sounds, words, and high-frequency words in isolation that they will see in the story! When they are done reading the story you can work on comprehension with a few quick questions about the story! Tip-you could have them highlight all of the words with digraphs in the passage and have them read those in isolation before reading the whole story!

Included:

5 digraph-specific passages (scaffolded and regular) (th, sh, ch, wh, ck)

5 mixed digraph passages (scaffolded and regular) (th, sh, ch, wh, ck)

*All of the words use a short vowel

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling with consonant -le.

My product includes:

• Real and nonsense consonant -le words
• Spelling with consonant -le
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling r-controlled vowel words.

My product includes:

• Real and nonsense r-controlled vowel words
• Words 80-107 from the Zeno Word List
• Spelling r-controlled vowel words
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

Reading and writing with phonics patterns can be simplified! When students know how to break up words or what to look for in words they will have more success! These handouts can be for you to use when teaching concepts or can go in a notebook for students to look at when reading unfamiliar words or spelling words!