Dancing Donkeys Alliteration

Your Guide to Online Phonics Game Occasionaly let your child play an online phonics game. They are useful if used wisely and can give much needed practice to help build confidence and fluency. Here are a few you may find useful. I continually add to this list via our free monthly e-zine ‘What a Load…

Are you teaching phonics? Here is a growing list of arcticles and FAQ to inspire and help all the wonderful teachers and home educators around the globe! Quick Reference: Glossary of Phonics Terms phonograms blends alphabet phonemic awareness sight words 44 phonic sounds online games printables lesson plans   Articles & FAQ: Do you need…

Free Phonics Printable Worksheets:  Print them here: Printing Tip: To print, right click your mouse and click Save Target As into a file on your own computer. All the files are pdf documents and most computers will open these automatically. More worksheets coming soon! consonants & vowels   short vowel sounds   beginning consonant /b/…

‘What is one phonics resource you can’t do without?’ – I imagine we would all have a variety of different answers, maybe ranging from books to computers to reading software and the like. (In fact that has got me wondering – What is the one phonics resource you can’t do without? – Scroll down to see what others…

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…

Sounds and Names of the abc letter alphabet One of the first stepsfor reading success is having a firm knowledge of the abc letteralphabet.   PhonicTip:When you areteaching lettersounds, be careful not to add an “uh” sound at the endof some letters. For example, letter s should sound like a snake hissing. Letter s says /sss/not /suh/…