Quick Phonics Activities, using just a Pen and Paper
‘The Polar Bear and the Snow Cloud’ by Jane Cabrera is a great winter story. There are so many winter activities that can be done alongside this delightful book, and lots of opportunities to include number work, word work, arts and crafts and STEM activities.
This is a fun listening games, that gets kids focused on a key phonological awareness skill: distinguishing sounds. All you need is a bell or small instrument, a soft toy and some room. It’s a game that’s guaranteed to get kids shouting ‘again!’
The first book in the Pen and Paper Phonics Book Club is ‘Not a Stick’ by Antoinette Portis. Read on to find out why this is a great book to share with children, and all the activities that can be based on it.
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 ‘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
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
The Main Idea: This is a sight word matching activity. The goal of this activity is to teach, or to reinforce, how to read words or sounds. This is done by writing words on small cards and turning them over … Continued
Quickly create different words with this easily adaptable sliding activity.
This is a simple reinforcement activity to help with learning tricky or difficult words, that don’t follow the usual patterns of spelling.
Get your colors out for this fun but simple matching activity!