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Resources for how to help students with phonics.

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How to Practice Phonics With Kids at Home

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Support your child’s reading success at home with these 6 tips on how to teach phonics to kids.

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Children's Storybooks Online not only offers stories for children, we're interested in helping them learn to read those stories. We believe phonics is the best method to teach reading so we have developed a web site specifically for that.

Here are some of the best phonics links to other great sites with useful phonics games, information and materials:

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Children's Storybooks Online not only offers stories for children, we're interested in helping them learn to read those stories. We believe phonics is the best method to teach reading so we have developed a web site specifically for that.

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Phonics is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between the sounds of spoken language, and the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language. Successful decoding occurs when a student uses his or her knowledge of letter-sound relationships to accurately read a word.

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Make learning phonics fun with these incredibly fun phonics games for kids. Whether you teach kindergarten or elementary school kids, these phonics games are great to review phonics in a fun and engaging way. The Phonics Train is an online phonics flashcard game. There are 6 online phonics games on this. The first is a a game to teach the initial phonics sounds of the alphabet for letters A to Z.

The other five phonics games are to teach CVC word families with vowels a, e, i, o, and u. All these phonics games can be played online and are absolutely FREE. Simply play the video from this page, or from our YouTube channel and pause the video when you see the pause sign. Also, all the phonics flashcards from these videos can be downloaded for free from our flashcard page.
HOW TO PLAY
The Phonics Train will pass by with five phonics words on it. Then, it will pass by again but this time with some words missing. Students must try to guess which word is missing. This game is based on the classic classroom game 'What's missing?' and is a lot of fun. There are 4 levels: Slow, Fast, Very Fast, and Super Fast.

Free Phonics Games For Kids

Phonics Game A to Z

Phonics Game CVC - A

Phonics Game CVC - E

Phonics Game CVC - I

Phonics Game CVC - O

Phonics Game CVC - U

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Free Phonics Games For Kids | The Phonics Train Game | Games4esl

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Have fun while teaching phonics with these incredibly fun phonics games for kids. The Phonics Train is a Phonics flashcard game. FREE and no prep required!

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Phonics is the understanding of how letters combine to make sounds and words, which is a crucial step toward learning to read. The key elements of reading are:

Phonics teaches young learners how to read letters or groups of letters by saying their corresponding sounds. In other words, when they see the word "rat" the letter "r" sounds like rrrr when we say it.

Once students grasp the alphabet, and know the sound each letter represents they continue on to blend these letter-sound pairings together to read a word. They can then distinguish between similar sounds (e.g. "three," "free," and "tree), and phonics success is just around the corner. An effective homeschool phonics curriculum will involve frequent reinforcement and review of these skills.

Time4Learning systematically teaches phonics as part of an integrated reading and language arts program. Our animated characters will engage your student while building a solid reading foundation.

Why is Phonics Important?

Teaching phonics is important because it helps students map out sounds into spellings and decode words, which are key in helping students comprehend text. A successful phonics program moves early readers from phonemic awareness to being able to decode new words. This important skill also links students to the next phase of reading: comprehension. These building blocks are all part of the reading skills pyramid.

Learning phonics begins as early as ages 2-4 when children begin learning their "ABCs." Kindergarten is traditionally when students begin learning the letter-sound connections. Phonics instruction usually continues throughout early elementary, though.

In short, learning phonics is important because it will help children:

Learn how to properly pronounce words

Learn how to properly spell words

Improve reading skills and efficiency

Improve reading fluency (text accuracy and speed)

Improve reading comprehension

Phonics Curriculum Overview

Phonics curriculum usually starts with teaching letters, slowly creating a working knowledge of the alphabet. Children learn the sounds of each letter by associating it with the word that starts with that sound. Phonics skills grow through reading activities, and students learn to distinguish between vowels and consonants and understand letter combinations such as blends and digraphs.

Teaching phonics builds on previously learned skills:

Understanding the alphabet

Knowing that words are made up of sounds which can be changed to create new words: h + at = hat, c + at = cat

Distinguishing between similar sounds: "three," "free" and "tree"

Phonics success comes by progressing through these skills carefully with frequent reinforcement and review.

Pre-Reading Activities for Students

Parents can do a variety of reading activities with their child to enhance a phonics curriculum. Some pre-reading activities you can do with your child include:

Reading aloud to your child as often as possible

Showing your child the letters of the alphabet

Spelling their name on paper and sounding it out for them

Encourage your preschooler to pay attention to the sounds in words, and making language a game

Singing songs and nursery rhymes together while showing them the matching words on the page

Telling your child stories and letting them tell stories to you, as well

Discover more about Time4Learning's preschool language arts curriculum.

From Pre-Reading to Early Reading

By the end of kindergarten, students should know the letters and their corresponding sounds. Your homeschool phonics program should use reading activities that will help your student identify words that begin with the same sounds and reinforce letter recognition. Use reading activities that show your child the difference between upper and lowercase letters.

Be careful not to push your kindergartener too hard. While most children follow the same sequence of acquiring literacy skills, they do so at their own pace. Your phonics curriculum should recognize that all children are different, and cater to your child's learning style.

Discover more about Time4Learning's kindergarten language arts curriculum.

Advanced Online Phonics Program for 1st and 2nd Graders

After they've gained phonemic awareness and early phonics skills, students move even closer to learning to read. With Time4Learning, 1st graders begin learning phonics online by translating syllables into words and focusing on phonetic spelling strategies. In 2nd grade, students advance their phonics knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words and recognizing word roots, prefixes and suffixes.

From preschool to 2nd grade, Time4Learning's phonics reading program uses reading activities and fun interactive games to teach and reinforce. Children learn at their own pace in a safe, supportive environment designed to build on their foundation of pre-phonics skills and lead to reading for understanding and comprehension.

Why Choose Time4Learning's Phonics Curriculum?

While a phonics curriculum is a critical step in learning to read, many parents and educators forget that before you can succeed with a phonics curriculum, you must teach phonemic and phonological awareness.

Time4Learning presents phonics curriculum in a style that is both engaging and effective. Our phonics instruction:

Builds on a foundation of phonemic awareness

Is integrated into an overall reading program

Focuses more on reading words than on "learning rules"

Takes place in a fun, online, and animated learning environment

Presents animated, interactive lessons that feel more like video games than learning exercises

Time4Learning can be used for homeschool, after-school or summer learning and is a great way to start young learners off on the right foot. Kids love the funny sound effects and quirky cartoon characters delivering the material.

Plus, the student-paced nature of the program teaches them how to work independently, giving them a sense of ownership over their progress, which is a great motivator.

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Phonics is the understanding of how letters combine to make sounds and words, which is a crucial step toward learning to read. The key elements of reading are: Phonics teaches young learners how to read letters or groups of letters by saying their corresponding sounds.

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Resources for how to help ELL students & students with disabilities with phonics.

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Phonics for MLs - A World of Language Learners

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Learn about some of the differences between teaching phonics to ELLs and native English speakers. Also discover some new resources.

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Alternative Reading Strategies for Reading Disabilities

Students who struggle with reading often have more options than parents (or even teachers) may realize.There are alternative teaching techniques to help students over temporary learning hurdles and entire programs with proven success for the learning disabled or dyslexic student.There are methods suited to auditory, visual, kinesthetic and multisensory learning styles.

The first step to successful advocating for students with reading disabilities is becoming informed.Teachers, tutors, and parents need background information about what techniques have successful track records and which programs incorporate them.Match the optimum technique with the struggling reader, and progress is bound to follow.

What About Phonics?

Phonics continues to be the most effective and flexible reading strategy.It can be a stumbling block for many troubled readers, but there are strategies that can help most people master the necessary skills.

One such teaching strategy is to present information intentionally and in small sequential steps.Many traditional reading programs move quickly and make large conceptual leaps.Many also move students through lessons before they have truly mastered the material.In most classrooms, everyone moves on to the next lesson as a group.Student progress is considered satisfactory if they respond correctly at least 70% of the time.That's not good enough to ensure continued mastery for some students.It's important to ensure progress for struggling readers by teaching in small sequential steps to a high degree of mastery.

Students also benefit from programs that incorporate at least some multisensory techniques.

Programs that include oral presentation accompanied by visual information, that utilize color-coding or other attention-grabbing techniques, and those that incorporate writing and other motor responses have the greatest chance for success with the largest number of struggling students.Engaging lessons, age-appropriate and inclusive stories, and memory work are all key components of a good remedial reading program.In addition, it is important to have a component that allows the student to create his or her own personalized reference for spelling rules, phonics information, and vocabulary.

Alternatives to Phonics

In addition to phonics, there are other strategies to help readers decode unknown words.

Many of these alternatives focus on visual cues, such as letter clusters (like word family groups or common groups of letters within words such as -ild, or -eep), or word shapes, where students are taught to discriminate commonly confused words by looking at the outer shape of the word dictated by the tall, small and hanging down letters.

The old See-and-Say method of teaching reading (through rote memorization of word forms) can be used as a last resort.Some programs utilize rebus pictures and graphics designed to invoke letter shapes or word meanings, such as the Ball and Stick Program that has been used with developmentally disabled persons.

The key point to remember is that there are options for teaching reading that go beyond the basal reading series and most programs are already in place in the mainstream of our educational system.Advocates may need to do a bit of searching, but alternative reading strategies and programs for disabled students do exist and are available.The extra effort to find an appropriate teaching technique or program will have dramatic impact on literacy skills and life outcomes.

This post is part of the series: Special Help for Struggling Readers

Teachers, literacy advocates and parents of struggling readers can educate themselves about specialized programs and teaching techniques to improve their students' literacy.

Phonics and Alternatives for Students with Disabilities

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Phonics and Alternatives for Students with Disabilities

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There are a number of different reading strategies for students with reading disabilities that can be used to promote literacy. Find out about key components of successful remedial reading programs and strategies to help struggling readers with literacy skills; including modifications to traditional phonics programs, alternatives that are more visually oriented, and more.

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Award winning educational materials like worksheets, games, lesson plans and activities designed to help kids succeed. Start for free now!

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The Kindergarten Level 2 Reading Program, is suitable for kids between the ages of 4 to 6. Children will learn short vowels a & e, beginning and ending consonant sounds. The will learn how to read words, sentences and 2 short stories.

Printables & Powerpoint

These high quality pdf worksheets are pages from our phonics activity book for preschool. Worksheets are arranged by course progression. Some of the skills the children will learn include:

Videos

You do not need to be a professional teacher to present the skills for this level. Our highly focused phonics video tutorials will easily do the job. Some of the videos include the following:

Games

Kiz Phonics offers a variety of reading games for all kinds of learners. These activities often combine audio, visual and clicking to learn. Each activity is short and focused.

Listening

The listening section of our kindergarten 2 phonics program is in sync with the worksheets of this level. Print a worksheet you want to use and choose the audio from the playlist.

Featuring Worksheets for Kindergarten Level 2

Featuring Kindergarten 2 Games

Featuring Kindergarten 2 Videos

Kiz Phonics iPad Apps

Preschool Reading - Ages 3-4

Learning to read starts here. From as low as 3 years, your child needs to build the following skills that will prepare him/her for reading. Print Awareness and Phonemic Awareness are the hallmarks of this level. We provide the following types of resources:

Kindergarten Reading 1 - Ages 4-6

The Kindergarten Level 1 Reading Program, is suitable for kids between the ages of 4 to 6. Children will learn short vowels a & e, beginning and ending consonant sounds. The will learn how to read words, sentences and 2 short stories.

Kindergarten Reading 2 - Ages 4-6

The Kindergarten Level 2 Reading Program, is suitable for kids between the ages of 4 to 6. Children will learn short vowels i, o & u, ending and beginning consonants & digraphs. The will learn how to read words, sentences and 2 short stories.

1st Grade Reading 1 - Ages 6-7

The 1 st Grade Level 1 Reading Program features a review of all the short vowels, beginning and ending consonants. Your children will learn words with the S blends, consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, wh and ph. They will also learn the soft C and G sounds.

1st Grade Reading 2 - Ages 6-7

The 1 st Grade Level 2 Phonics Program features the long a & i with the silent e. Kids will learn how the silent e changes the sounds of words. This level also includes vowel digraphs ai & ay, vowel digraphs ee & ea and final y as long e.

2nd Grade Reading 1 - Ages 7-8

The 2 nd Grade Level 1 Phonics Program features the long o & u with the silent e. This level also includes vowel digraphs like oa & ow, ui & ue and final y as long i. Special vowels like aw & ew will be also be learned.

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Kindergarten Level 2 Reading Activities - Ages 4-6

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Kindergarten Level 2 Reading Activities: You will find Phonics Worksheets, Videos, Games & Listening Materials for Teaching Children to Read through Phonics - Beginning and Ending Consonants, Short i, Short o, Short u, Word Families ig, og, ug, Short Vowels, Handwriting Practice, Consonant Digraphs, Ending Blends

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ABCmouse.com's phonics program helps teach children everything they need to know to become confident readers. With our full online preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten curriculum, children can start wherever they feel most comfortable and progress at their own pace.

The first step in phonics is to learn the names of the letters of the alphabet, both in their lowercase and uppercase forms. On ABCmouse.com, children will learn the alphabet through hundreds of books, games, songs, puzzles, and art activities, and will see and hear examples of many words that start with each letter.

Once children can identify the names of each letter, they can begin learning the most common sounds represented by each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. ABCmouse.com's collection of The Letter Songs A-Z will help children identify those sounds, as will the hundreds of other games and activities such as the Alphabet Bubble Burst game and the book Alphabet in the Park.

Once children have mastered the sounds of each letter, they can learn how to sound out simple words with consonant-vowel-consonant patterns, such as pig, dog, hat, and so on. At ABCmouse.com, we provide hundreds of fun and engaging activities that help teach children to sound out common words as well as common word families (words that have the same ending sounds and letter combinations, such as hot, pot, and not).

To help children learn phonics and other important fundamental reading skills, ABCmouse.com also publishes Tap and Learn™ books, charts, instructional guides and other products, which provide engaging learning experiences based on interactive pen reader technology.

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ABCmouse.com's phonics program helps teach children everything they need to know to become confident readers. With our full online preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten curriculum, children can start wherever they feel most comfortable and progress at their own pace.

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Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games

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"I knew I had a winner when I used Articulation Station with my kids, the parents saw how much fun it was, and bought it immediately for home practice!" -Sherry Artemenko, SLP

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UNIQUE SENTENCES
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The colorful Animal Letters and Body Movements (Signals) engage the child and hold his or her attention. Because the curriculum is so playful, children not only want to learn, their behavior improves because the children are on task and happy while learning through Zoo-phonics®.