1st grade decoding activities

Blends and Digraphs activities for fun learning in the kindergarten, first grade and second grade classroom. Free teaching ideas for games, printables and alternatives to worksheets for your struggling readers and elementary students. #phonics #decoding #readinginterventions #guidedreading #conversationsinliteracy #blendsanddigraphs

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

In this blog post: Download a set of decodable readers based on your favorite fairytales and folktales including The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. If you’ve been around for a while, you know that one of my favorite […]

Help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice decoding multisyllabic words with these 9 engaging activity ideas. These ideas make lesson planning and teaching multisyllabic word strategies to upper elementary students easier. Word sorts, word walls, syllable ladders, and more decoding multisyllabic words activity ideas.

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15 fun and easy fluency practice activities to get your K-1 students reading at a just-right pace, with accuracy and expression!

If your learner is working on blends or digraphs, you’ll want to grab a copy of these free phonics dice games for blends & digraphs. *This post contains affiliate links. **The free download can be found at the END of this post. A little background… My daughter, now in 2nd grade, went to a part-time school ... Read More about Phonics Dice Games for Blends and Digraphs

Fun reading activities for 1st grade

Have you found your 1st grade classroom struggling with CVC words even when you feel like you’ve tried everything to help them with blending and segmenting? You won’t want to miss this blog post that includes 5 easy and engaging activities to practice CVC words. Some of these CVC activities include pop it blending, race car blending and even blending with hula hoops. Use all of these blending and segmenting activities to help your students with their reading skills while still having fun.

Decodable reading passages are a great way to teach phonics skills to first graders while also increasing reading comprehension and fluency. Check out this blog post to learn how to use the decodable readers in your classroom and grab a free sample.