Quick Phonics Activities, using just a Pen and Paper
This fast paced and active game provides practice with consonant digraph recognition. It can be played with just the digraphs, or words containing the digraphs. Each player takes turns to flip over a card. If two cards are the same the first player to snap then up, gets to keep the card.
I love this quick activity. It is so simple to prepare, and easy to adapt to whatever the learner is struggling with. As its name suggests, it is an activity where the student circles the letters. Therefore, it is great … Continued
This old classic gives plenty of practice for sight words. Based on the game of battleships it provides and interactive and engaging way to learn pr practice sight words.
In this fun, interactive activity, words are made by sliding the letter strip up or down the slider. Children get practice in reading words with different spellings, but the same sound – ay and ai.
This letter sounds activity is designed to help teach and reinforce letter recognition. Write the letter sounds you want to practice on sticky notes and start playing.
This is a fun way to read words as part of a game. Write the rhyming words in a racetrack, roll the dice, and off you go.
This game introduces glued sounds and helps children ‘chunk’ parts of a word together, to make them easier to read. It’s a simple jigsaw puzzle format that is a fun and effective way to practice phonics.
This ‘Compound words with a bouncing ball is a simple but very effective phonics game. All you need is a ball, and some flashcards. Here we are using this game to teach compound words, but it can be adapted to … Continued
This ‘ck’ Flip Flap Activity involves practice in reading words containing the ‘ck’ sound and spelling. It is a fun multi sensory activity, that can be used to teach, or to reinforce this sound.
The Main Idea: This is a letter sounds activity, where letter sounds are written on a roll of paper. The goal of this activity is to teach, or reinforce the recognition of letter sounds. This is done by writing the letters on a … Continued