Blending Bingo : You have to first print off bingo cards before playing this game, and you need at least two players to make it fun. The screen shows a word generator where letters go round and stop to make words for you to cross off your card. Poop Deck pirates: See below for details, this is mainly a vowel spelling game but if at this earlier level, use the Phase 3 CVC activity.
Learners listen to a word, choose an onset and a rime, and put them in the blender to make the word. Tell a T Rex : See details above, use Level 2 words. Sandcastle Quiz: Choose a vowel sound and then listen to words with that sound and drop the correct spelling in to build a sandcastle for Sam the Clam. Write A Postcard: Help Salty Sam write his postcards by finding all the words with a particular sound in them.
You can read them, do a sound search activity or a fill-the-gap one, or print them out if you like. Some of the themes are good fun e. Snap It! When a word appears that contains the target spelling, you have to snap it. In level 2, the second cards have a spelling missing and you have to snap if the target spelling completes the word.
Drag n Spell : An incomplete word appears with a picture e. Deep Sea Phonics: Asks learners to select spellings from a limited number of choices to assemble words e. Pirate Spelling : Select spellings from a choice of three to fill gaps in a word, which animates a pirate and macaw. Phonics Finder : This is a wonderword activity where you choose a target spelling and then click on the beginning and end of all the words in the grid with that spelling to eliminate them from a list.
Most of the spellings targeted are vowels, but there are also some 2-letter and 3-letter consonant spellings sh, ch, th, ck, wh, gh, ph, tch plus a couple of patterns used in 2-syllable words ful, ly.
Starfall : There are many activities for practicing vowel spellings in Starfall see above. Phonics Play Buried Treasure : See above for details. Phase 5 of the game works on vowel spellings. The sound is spoken clearly and the child has to pop the bubble containing the matching sound. Simple, but strangely satisfying, like popping bubble wrap. Word Wheel. This game uses three-letter words.
Decide which word the picture represents, then stop each wheel when the correct letters are showing. Quite tricky! Reading machine. Choose the correct word from the three displayed to match the object on the machine. Click next to go to the next word. Three-letter house.
A great game to help children with cvc consonant, vowel, consonant words. Choose a word ending or a middle sound. Read the words and decide whether they are real words. This is a brilliant site with lots of phonics games.
Choose the sound and play a game, or choose an online book to read. When you are reading the book, you can click on any word to hear it being sounded out. DJ Cows. Choose a spelling pattern, e. A word search is generated with words containing the pattern you chose. Kids love the sound effects! Phonic Fighter. A letter appears on an alien spaceship and you have to click the picture beginning with that letter. If you get it right, your fighter will shoot the alien. Teaching Diphthong ou and ow as a Pattern I'm curious, do you teach diphthong ou and ow as a pattern or attach a story to it?
Most teachers will attach the band-aid and "ouch" story with it. I found connections always helped and pointing out that ou was usually in the middle of a word and ow at the end helped them with spelling which helps them with writing and in turn.
What a lovely circle that is! On-Sets and Rime For those students having difficulty with the sound spelling, you may want to work more with the word families especially for your ESL learners. Word-Work I always let the students choose to work together or independently but they were in groups when they did the sorts and games. They are practicing, so it's okay if they help each other. That's the point. They learn from each other and talk during this time.
I used the sorts and games for word work but they're great in guided groups too. I go back and forth between saving ink for teachers and "eye-catching" for kids. What do you think? They seem easy at first glance but to get it right they need to know their stuff.
To differentiate, have kids refer to the colored focus words included in the resource. To make it more challenging, have kids label the pictures.
Reading ou and ow Words in Context There are activities included where students read the words in sentences but nothing takes the place of read alouds and pointing out the sound spellings in context. Most importantly, kids really need to practice the words in their reading. I always used our school resources or Raz-kids for students to practice reading the words in context in guided reading groups but this resource includes a student reader.
Home reading and book boxes were student choices. In the mean time, here is a fun ou and ow word search for your kids. Just click on the button, subscribe, and it will go to your inbox. I was thinking, if you are here, you are looking for resources to help you teach and you probably don't want to buy or store a zillion resources.
I think I might have something that will make your life easier and streamline things for you when teaching phonics. If you aren't about all the fluff and want something that works, you should really check out this post HERE.
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