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Why use children’s nursery rhymes? Using children’s nursery rhymes is a great way to build phonological awareness and provides welcome practice with phonograms and word families in a fun way…..you can only go so far with flashcards! Knowing how to rhyme will greatly improve your child’s auditory skills which is vital for pre-school phonics. And…

High Frequency Words – Amazing Facts! Sight Words [also referred as Dolch or High Frequency Words] are a list of words that readers are encouraged to recognize without having to “figure them out.”  We have been told that these words cannot be sounded out because they do not follow decoding rules –  BUT many of…

ClickN Read Phonics So how can we as parents and teachers really know if ClickN Read Phonics is the best reading program for you & your child’s situation? Hopefully, I have made this decision a little easier as I have reviewed it for you – see below for my comments Remember, to help you make…

Click the links below to view all the free phonics printables! Just sit at your computer and press the ‘print’ button!!  Word Blends Alphabet Printables Word Search Puzzles Flashcards Sight Words Rhyme Printables Flip Books Phonics Worksheets Lesson Plans Phonics Games PowerPoint Phonics: rhyme powerpoint short presentation – dog/frog, carrot/parrot, cat/hat, house/mouse

Alliteration What is alliteration? It is the repetition of the first letter sound in a phrase. For example: six slimy smiling snakes is using the s letter. Do you remember being introduced to Tongue Twisters as a child? Chances are you were being introduced to alliteration to build on your phonemic awareness skills. It can…

Phonics Lessons What order do your phonics lessons take? I was asked recently in what order should you teach consonant sounds. What a great question! so I did some research and discovered that many of the phonics programs differ in which letters they teach first. The order in which one presents phonics lessons to children…