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Free Reading Games Short-Vowels This is a simple First Short-Vowel Bingo game with Breve Markings. It contains 4 Bingo Cards and 32 Short-Vowel Tiles. Print Short-Vowel Bingo PDF.

Downloadable word games to print and play Print Them Here! Printing Tip: 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. Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 1. Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 2 Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo…

Building Phonological & Phonemic Awareness with PreSchool Phonics: If your child is still at preschool phonics still plays an important part. You need to help them build good Phonological and Phonemic Awareness or in other words, good pre-reading skills. So how can you build these preschool phonics skills in your child today? Phonological Awareness Phonological…

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/…

Phonics Flash Cards Sign up to receive our free newsletter for more phonics flash cards, articles and links to the best phonics resources on the web! Print Them Here! Printing Tip: right click your mouse and click Save Target As into a file on your own computer. All the files are pdf documents and most…

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Nursery Rhyme Activities   Sign up to receive our newsletter for more nursery rhyme activities, printables, phonics and other rhyme resources! Print them here: Nursery rhyme activities are added on a regular basis! Rhyming Pictures    Make Rhyming Words    Rhyming Pictures –  a set of 36 pictures to play rhyming pairs. Delightful graphics help…

Phonics Activity for Short Vowel Sounds 1. Print out or write on a large pieces of paper the vowels: a, e, i, o, u write in lower case. Scatter the vowels on the floor, but within jumping distance from each other. The object of this game is to get from one side of the room…

Free Phonics Printable Worksheets:   Sign up to receive our free newsletter for more free phonics printable worksheets, articles and best phonics resources on the web! 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…

Learning the alphabet with toys! Learning the alphabet has never been so much fun…and confusing!  Educational toys literally drip from toy shelves around the world – choosing one which will actually help your child with learning their alphabet letterscan be quite a mission! So what should you look for? make sure that the audible sounds are…

Review – Frontline Phonics What you get with Frontline Phonics: 53 Phonics Readers Music CD with 34 Sing-a-long Songs 2 Reading Lesson Plan Manuals 2 Activity Workbooks with Phonics Worksheets Instructional Video to guide you step by step 3 Flashcard Sets 31 Educational Game Pieces Free access to a Reading Coach 60-DayMoney-Back Guarantee How frontline…

Find a Word Search to Print We have a growing selection of word search to print, most of them are phonics based. So if you are teaching phonics such as phonograms, or Dolch highfrequency sight words reinforce your lessons with our phonics printables. Word Search Phonics Printables Vowel Search A first word puzzle that introduces…

How my daughter received exceptional reading results with phonics Here is my own story of how my daughter received amazing reading results: Having just emigrated to a new country with two small children the daunting search was on to find a good school. (Funny how some things are the same whichever country you live in!)  I…

What is Phonics? So what is phonics? What do all these words actually mean? phonics phonograms phonemes phonemic awareness grapheme In this section we will also be looking at: The history of phonics The different stages of learning to read Many of you have probably heard of phonics, but I will go one step further…

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…

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…

Online Reading Games This is a collection of online reading games I collated for my son. Come back soon as this page is updated with new games I find! The following online phonics games are a great way to revise and practise reading skills: It is frustrating that many of the online reading games do…

Uh! What’s the Schwa Phonics Sound? When I first read about the schwa phonics sound – I thought “uh? – What on earth is all this about! Have I missed something?” So I did my usual extensive phonics research with books and websites and discovered that ‘schwa’ is actually the name given to one of…

Teaching Phonics – Step by Step Teaching phonics is not dissimilar to learning mathematics. In maths you learn step by step. You learn to count before you add, add before you subtract, subtract before multiplication. It doesn’t make sense to learn how to multiply before you understand the concept of counting. You learn in small…

Alphabet Craft Ideas: With so many alphabet craft items available today, from Beads Buttons Stencils Stamps Cutters learning the alphabet has never been so much fun!  Here are some ideas how to use crafts in your alphabet lessons at home or school: Buy Alphabet Beads and get your students to make their own Alphabet Necklace…