Brainspring phonics first

I use a lot of tracing in my Orton-Gillingham lesson plans. When I introduce a new phonogram, students will trace the letters while saying the sound. When I introduce a new prefix or suffix, students

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We all know how desperately our struggling readers need to work on vowel sounds. Adding a Vowel Intensive activity to your phonics lesson can give students the practice they need to master these challenging sounds. Here is an activity that my students repeatedly ask for! Make it Multisensory Make a simple Twister-style game board from paper and circles or bits of colored paper. Write a vowel in each circle as shown. Using index cards or small squares of paper, create 3 piles with five cards…

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Grab and Sort: CVC Word Building. Fun phonics game for preschoolers or kindergarteners using letter tiles to build and sort simple C-V-C words. Great for early readers.

After a little phonics screening this past week, I realized a good chunk of my kiddos were STUCK on blends. They were having trouble reading both beginning and ending consonant blends. I created a fun little game which I introduced on Friday and my kids loved it! Here it is in action: […]

Teaching and learning phonics doesn't have to be boring! Spice things up with these fun phonics activities! Your students will love these new ideas!

Orthographic mapping with sight words. It sounds like such a technical and confusing idea, right? I know it was the first time I saw the term. But after close study, I’ve come to see that it isn’t as complicated or intimidating as I first thought. And I’d actually been doing it with my struggling readers for ... Read More about Orthographic Mapping with Sight Words {How to}

Letter reversal strategies for kindergarten. Although letter reversals are normal in kindergarten and first grade, here is a free tip to help remind your students during writing.

It’s always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those “longer” words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply put, a syllable is a unit of pronunciation containing a […]