Encoding activities

Take a moment to think about how you teach spelling and reading? What strategies do you use and suggest to students when teaching them how to read and spell? Do these strategies involve looking at the pictures? Using context clues to guess the words? If you answered yes to the last two questions above, consider the following:When looking at a picture are you actually reading a word or are you identifying an object in a picture? These are two different processes in our brains. Our brains were…

Sorting multisyllabic words activities Improving fluency is something we are always looking to do. I have the students do a number of activities with connected text to achieve this. But most of the time, students

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Try these simple activities for phonics practice with your class! This no-prep phonics game is a great way to keep your students learning!

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.

Learn the difference between decoding and encoding and how to practice these important literacy skills with your students

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.

Ditch the phonics worksheets and try these hands-on phonics activities to incorporate the science of reading into your literacy instruction.

These long a decoding activities are perfect for students learning to read and write words with the long a phonics pattern. Each decodable includes words, nonsense words, sentences, and a short story.

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