3rd grade phonics activities

Blends and Digraphs activities for fun learning in the kindergarten, first grade and second grade classroom. Free teaching ideas for games, printables and alternatives to worksheets for your struggling readers and elementary students. #phonics #decoding #readinginterventions #guidedreading #conversationsinliteracy #blendsanddigraphs

Do 3rd graders need phonics? What does phonics in 3rd grade look like? Get answers to those questions and ideas for getting started in this post.

Help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice decoding multisyllabic words with these 9 engaging activity ideas. These ideas make lesson planning and teaching multisyllabic word strategies to upper elementary students easier. Word sorts, word walls, syllable ladders, and more decoding multisyllabic words activity ideas.

Literacy centers in the classroom should be simple, easy, and fun! Using no-prep or low-prep ideas helps with time management, lesson planning, and easy weekly setup. Throughout the years, I have tried a plethora of ideas for my literacy centers. Some worked okay, and some did not work at all. Finally, I realized I was overthinking and making center time WAY more complicated than it should be for both myself and the students. Once I realized that the simplicity of the centers was what made…

Try these simple activities for phonics practice with your class! This no-prep phonics game is a great way to keep your students learning!

When you have students who are in upper elementary classrooms reading several years below grade level, your phonics instruction needs to b...

Phonics instruction can be tricky for older students. When I taught first grade it was a natural part of our guided reading time. The lower level text allowed for more opportunities to incorporate phonics instruction. My third grade students desperatly NEED phonics instruction. They need to work on the same skills my firsties did, but at a higher level. As a result of this need, Phonics for BIG KIDS was born. There are four components to our phonics routine: Assessment, Word Work Lesson…

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

Sorting multisyllabic words activities Improving fluency is something we are always looking to do. I have the students do a number of activities with connected text to achieve this. But most of the time, students