Three Tips To Work With Phonics!

Do you offer students the opportunity to practice and learn their phonics skills?

In this post, I share three tips to help you during your word study period.

1-Spelling Patterns :

-Always begin with easy ones. Smaller Phonemics units are hard for students to learn.

- Focus on Constants and family words. For example, fat (f and at) and rat (r and at).

- Prepare students to hear and manipulate the individual vowel sound.

- Provide examples of common spelling patterns.

- Provide them with activities that include spelling patterns and place them in your literacy centers.

In my store, you can find five-week short vowels literacy center activities to help you plan and prepare for your phonics period in a fun and engaging way.

2. Whole Group:

- Begin your daily practice by introducing the new skill or reviewing the week's skill during instructional time.

- Let students explore letters and sounds. For example, give students five to ten minutes to review the skill of using tiles and making words.

- Demonstrate and model the skill during word study.

- Allow the students to work with you and understand the skill. For example, use an anchor chart to create words together or match a word to a sound.

3- Skill Practice:

- Students need to understand the significance of a skill and how to use it.

- Let students explore, read, and practice the skill and strategy they try to master during literacy centers, small groups, and hands-on activities.

The steps in this post were used in my classroom to help students acquire, explore, read, and practice the strategy taught and achieve their goals as readers and writers.

I used my Short Vowels Literacy Centers Packet to drill and reinforce vowel sounds.

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