Three Tips To Make your Phonics Instruction Seamless!

Do you offer students opportunities to practice and improve 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 phonemic 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.

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-Phonics Whole Groups:

– 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-Phonics Small Groups

– 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 to help them achieve their goals as readers and writers.

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

Short Vowels Literacy Centers Packet

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LiteracyTales-M.Tehfe | 5th Grade Teacher

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