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60+ Phonics and Reading Skills Workbook – Blends and Digraphs
Over 60 Teacher Made Blending and Digraph worksheets, games and activities.
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Notes for parents and teachers:
These worksheets and activities progress from our CVC and Short Vowels workbook. They introduce and practice digraphs and blending skills. These can be tricky for younger learners and we have included a large amount of practice worksheets. We have also included an online game / App at the end that enables these skills to be practiced using a different format.
What is inside
- 12 Say it, Complete it, Write it Worksheets: Covers the most common blends and digraphs and asks students to finish and write the word. Uses pictures to encourage vocabulary growth or visual recognition as well.
- 8 Finish the Word Activities: Uses images again to ask students to look at the picture and use the correct blend or digraph to complete the word.
- 4 Word Create Worksheets: These use a different approach. No images included as the task asks students to try to pick between two blends, sounds or digraphs to make a word and then be able to say it. Although there is an actual word for each task this is less important than having the students try to complete and then say the word they have created. – of course it better if they can create the actual word, but this is primarily a skills practicing worksheet.
- 6 Pick the Blend / Digraph Worksheets: Students have to pick between two blends or digraphs to correctly spell the word. Pictures included.
- 2 Which Digraph worksheets: Similar to the previous worksheets, these add a little complexity by offering more choices to use to complete the words.
- 13 ’’Where is the’’ Activities: Students have to color the correct words the correct color. These aim to introduce both the common blends and digraphs and the others that are less well known.
- 4 Blends and digraph Word Searches: Students write, color and then fin the words in this classic activity.
- Farming for phonics: Although this is a short vowel activity it uses words that have ending digraphs in them. So revises short vowels and introduces digraphs!
- Digraph coloring sheet: Asks students to color words with digraphs to reveal a picture
- 1 long and short vowel Spot the difference: 8 activities sheets that have 5 tasks on each. They cover common blends and digraphs.
We also have a Reading and Short stories comprehension workbook to practice these skills as well. Check them out here
50+ Phonics and Reading Skills Workbook – Long and Short Vowels
Over 50 Teacher Made Phonics, Long and Short Vowel worksheets, games and activities.
The printable activities you will find in this workbook are designed to focus on the vowel sounds in English. These short and long vowel sounds are an integral part of phonics instruction. We have over 50 worksheets and activities to help practice and master these often tricky sounds. We have included some revision materials to remind students and children about short vowels and constructing simple CVC words. Then we move onto the differences between long and short vowel sounds. There is a considerable focus on this as it can take a little time for students to fully master these important skills.
We have also included worksheets and activities for long vowel patterns and phonics rules included ‘’magic/silent e’’, r-controlled vowels, vowel digraphs and diphthongs and how Y can make vowel sounds
- 2 Read Write Colour: Practice and revision worksheets to cement CVC and Short vowel knowledge
- 2 Write my sound: Medial Sound worksheets that can be used as assessment or in a lesson where the parent or teacher can say the missing short vowel sound.
- 2 Fishing For Phonics Worksheets: Students are asked to ‘’fish’’ for short vowel sounds by coloring the fish the correct color.
- 6 Short and long vowel Colouring Activities: 5 Single vowel and one combined colouring activity. Students find, read and then colour the words with long and short sounds according to the instructions
- 3 farming for phonics Worksheets: This set of 3 worksheets asks students to say and differentiate between long and short sounds, r controlled sounds and includes a page of short sounds with consonant digraphs as well.
- 10 Circle the vowel Sound worksheets: This set of ten worksheets aims to teach students to both say and recognize the many different vowel sounds. We have 4 long and short versions, 1 magic ‘’e’’ and 5 that cover r-controlled vowels, vowel digraphs and diphthongs.
- 2 Penguin Rhyming Pairs and 2 Rhyming pairs worksheets: Students have to find and colour the rhyming pairs, or find and cut the rhyming words. This activity mixes up different spellings of the vowel sounds.
- 3 Vowel spelling worksheets: # worksheets to help students learn and recognize that there are different spellings of vowel sounds. This covers R controlled and oi/oy sounds.
- 1 long and short Vowel Spot the difference: Covers all 5 short vowels for revision
- 8 Magic E Worksheets: 4 Magic E Scramble and 4 spot the word worksheets to teach and practice the magic ‘’e’’ rule.
- 4 Vowel Digraph Cut and paste: Students must cute and paste vowel digraph words in the correct column
- 5 Bossy R worksheets: 5 worksheets highlighting spelling of r controlled vowels.
- 3 Y as a vowel activities: 3 worksheets and activities to help teach how Y can act as a vowel.
As well as our printable board game we have also linked some online games at the end along with a Long and Short Vowels PowerPoint game.
We also have a Reading and Short stories comprehension workbook to practice these skills as well. Check them out here
We also have a Reading and Short stories comprehension workbook to practice these skills as well. Check them out here
CVC And Phonics Skills and Kindi and Grade 1 Reading Bundle
Over 50 Teacher Made Phonics, Vowel and CVC Games, Worksheets and Activities for Younger Learners
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40+ Reading Comprehension Short Stories – CVC, Kindergarten and Grade 1
For one price you get get both of these emergent reader workbooks
Check out their contents here
Kindergarten and short stories
Phonics Skills and CVC Words
How to Teach making Inferences Reading Stratagy
Inferring is a reading comprehension strategy that aims to help children and students find information that is not explicitly revealed in a text. The colloquialism would be to read between the lines. For example ”the color drained from her face” could be used to infer the character was scared or shocked. This skill teaches students to attach further meaning to the text and predict or infer author meaning
50+ Phonics and Reading Skills Workbook – Sounds and CVC words
Over 50 Phonics, Vowel and CVC Games, Worksheets and Activities for Younger Learners
This Phonics and CVC Workbook offers students the chance to practice using multi intelligence methods and includes a large selection of CVC activities to help practice and master blending of simple words and phrases. We have also included the option to color some of these pages to help children and students take ownership of them.
- 5 CVC Scramble Worksheets: Designed to introduce and practice the structure of CVC words and how the sounds blend together.
- 5 CVC Word Sort: Moves from 3 separate sounds creating a word, to word families, or ‘’onset and rime’’ and introduces the idea of ‘’rhyme’’ as a way to work out unfamiliar words.
- 2 Which Vowel Worksheets: Vowels are tricky for young ears, the sound difference is minimal. This worksheet mixes familiar / unfamiliar words to try to help children hear that difference. Can be done alone, but is better if a parent or teacher helps by reading the words and offering encouragement.
- 2 Farming and 3 Fishing for phonics coloring activities: Both sets of activities ask the student to read and hear the difference between the short vowel sounds and then categorize them.
- 5 Roll and Read: 5 short vowel activities to put into practice what has been covered in the previous tasks. Children roll a dice and have to read the CVC word, marking how many times they read it.
- 5 Roll Find and Colour: 5 short vowel games to encourage students to recognize these words and colour them once they have read them correctly, can complete on their own, better with some help.
- 10 Word Families Activity pages: There are 2 versions of each short vowel sound. Has coloring, writing, reading and vocabulary tasks included in each page.
- 5 Space Phonics: A 3 activity worksheet with a CVC maze, writing task and introducing simple sentences using these words. There is some vocabulary and coloring incorporated in each page.
- 2 Vowel Sort: We move on to consolidating short vowel sounds and introducing long vowel sounds here. Students are asked to recognize and sort a set of long and short vowel words.
- Long and Short Vowel Worksheets: 6 Worksheets looking for students to recognize or vocalize a word and mark if they have a long or short vowel inside them. Used as an introduction to the next phase
- A Phonics Fortune Teller: One just needs colour and the other is a blank template for you and your children to make and design your own!
We also have a Reading and Short stories comprehension workbook to practice these skills as well. Check them out here
How to Teach Questioning Reading Comprehension
Questioning as a reading comprehension strategy encourages readers to engage with the text. Using questioning strategies will help the reader understand both the meaning and the purpose of the texts they read. It is also the sign of a more developed reader, as there is less emphasis on actually reading the words, as these skills are already developed, and more focus on understanding and comprehending the meaning and intent of the text.
How to Teach Summarizing Reading Strategies.
Summarizing skills require students to cut text down to only the essential information. to make is easy and quicker to read, understand and process. It is one of the core seven reading comprehension strategies and is closely related to determining importance skills in text.
Resources to Teach the Visualizing Reading Comprehension Strategy.
We have over 10 different activities to teach Visualizing to children and students, the key is to encourage the use of imagination and being able to express that verbally or on paper. so to help we have included artistic response, using drama, picture walks, imagining, arts and craft resources and many more
40+ Reading Comprehension Kindergarten to Grade 1 – Short Stories
40+ Reading Comprehension Short Stories – CVC, Kindergarten and Grade 1
Phonics and Topic themed readers designed for younger readers. We include a large selection of CVC readers to help practice and master blending of simple words and phrases. It also moves on to simple topics like parties, space and dinosaurs. We have also included the option to color some of these pages to help children and students take ownership of them.
- The utilize topics and subjects that are popular and motivating for children.
- Progresses from simple CVC readers to more complex sentences aimed to follow children’s progress.
- They are perfect for quick reading sessions, including guided reading and learning to read lessons
- Over 40 pages of reading materials for homes and classrooms.
- YouTube read aloud / read along included.
- Printable at schools and homes
These offer students more structured and formulaic language to help students practice and repeat simple words. They are kept short to maintain engagement and interest and offer levelled questions to help with comprehension.
