Education resources for parents and teachers
Help your child gain confidence reading short a words! Have you seen our word slider cards? The concept is simple. 1. Write a short vowel word on a long strip of paper, being sure to separate each phoneme (distinct sound). Blends, which have two sounds, are separated, but digraphs (sh, th, ch, wh) are not. 2. Seal a business-sized envelope and cut off the end. Insert the strip of paper. 3. Have your child ... Read More
Silent e words are tricky to read and spell. Try this free printable to help your child master them! Are you ready to teach your students how to make and read silent e words? Each of these cards has a short vowel word for students to read first. By printing the word endings and attaching craft sticks, your child has two "magic wands" that can change those short vowel words into something new. The "ke" wand is ... Read More
Teach kids about contractions with my new set of phonics readers! (This post contains affiliate links.) Are you teaching your students how to read and write contractions? Contractions aren't exactly a high interest topic, but these funny books will liven them up! These five printable books are set 18 in my collection of free phonics books. Use them with the rest of my readers, or use this as a stand-alone set when ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a giant printable. It's a classroom set of the rhyming game, Rhyming Bingo! One of the rhyming games my kids have enjoyed is the Rhyming Bingo I bought from a teacher supply store. But there are a few things about the game that bug me. One thing is that some of the words that the teacher calls are the same as the pictures on the boards. So we always have to distinguish, "I said boat, but you ... Read More
Looking for a way to help your child practice reading compound words? Try these! (This post contains affiliate links.) Today I'm sharing set 17 of my free phonics readers: compound words! What I love about this set is its many opportunities for review. Since compound words are made of two separate words, your child has the opportunity to review two previously learned patterns on every page. Let's check out a ... Read More
Looking for beginning sounds worksheets? We've got a set of 26! In the download, you'll get one page for every letter of the alphabet. Each page focuses on a single sound, even for letters which have two sounds (a, e, i, o, u, g, and c) . By naming the big picture at the bottom right, your child will be able to figure out the sound of the focus letter. ("/a/ /a/ Alligator.") I brought out ... Read More
Yay! It's another set of free printable phonics books! Set 16 focuses on ed and ing words. (This post contains affiliate links.) Have you see our free phonics books? Each set focuses on a particular phonics pattern or group of patterns. Set 16 is all about reading words with the ed and ing endings. We've had ed and ing books before, but those were word family books (bed, red, wed; sing, ring thing). This set is ... Read More
Looking for a way to reinforce those tricky beginning blends? Try these free clip cards! (This post contains affiliate links.) So... are you teaching someone to read? How's it going with those CVC words? By "CVC" I mean consonant-vowel-consonant. Words like cat, sit, and hop. We usually start reading instruction with these simple words. After children have mastered them, it's time for the next step: beginning ... Read More
Are plural endings tripping up your new reader? Try this set of free phonics books! (This post contains affiliate links.) Today I'm sharing set 15 in my collection of free phonics readers. What I love about this set is that it allows your child to review many of the patterns he's already learned. In this set your child will learn to read -s and -es endings on words. Often these are ... Read More
Are you looking for a rhyming game to help your child brush up on this pre-reading skill? Try our free matching activity! Have you seen my popular rhyming clip cards? I've taken some of those rhymes and put them into a simple matching game. I hope you get a chance to try it! Free rhyming game The download includes 24 rhyming pairs, but I kept it simple when I introduced the game to my preschooler. We ... Read More
