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Please see Starfall's how-to-teach-reading page, Learn to Read with Phonics, Fluency, and Comprehension, and print the Free Phonics Printouts for children. Starfall™ books, games, movies, and songs follow a research-based method of systematic phonics starting with consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. Emergent readers gain confidence as they progress to long vowels and other letter-sound relationships such as digraphs.

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Learn to Read with Phonics | Starfall Education

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Starfall's movies, games, and ebooks create an environment where children have fun as they learn to read. We use a proven sequential phonics method.

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Ideal to use in the classroom as a small group sorting activity or to create an attractive phonics display.

How to use this resource

Select the font and colour option required.

Print, cut and laminate the consonant beehives and word cards.

Choose a blend group for the children to sort.

Ask the children to sort the bees around the correct beehive.

Alternatively, create an attractive classroom display to support knowledge and understanding of consonant blends.

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Consonant Blends Beehive Sorting Activity - K-3 Teacher Resources

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Ideal to use in the classroom as a small group sorting activity or to create an attractive phonics display. How to use this resource Select the font and colour option required. Print, cut and laminate the consonant beehives and word cards. Choose a blend group for the children to sort.

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Use this resource when teaching phonics and the letters of the alphabet.

How to use this resource:

Select the font you would like to use and print the posters large enough to be seen in the classroom.

Display this poster in the classroom.

Refer to it when learning letters and sounds.

Recite the poem as a class together.

Have students make the correct sounds for each letter.

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Ants on the Apple Poster - K-3 Teacher Resources

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Use this resource when teaching phonics and the letters of the alphabet. How to use this resource: Select the font you would like to use and print the posters large enough to be seen in the classroom. Display this poster in the classroom. Refer to it when learning letters and sounds.

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Ideal to use as a bookmark during independent and guided reading and writing activities as a reference for children when learning phonics to read and write.

How to use this resource:

Print and cut in half to create two bookmarks.

Fold each bookmark in half then laminate.

Provide each child with their own bookmark.

Encourage children to refer to their bookmarks when reading and writing new words, or when identifying words with the same digraphs and blends.

What's next? - As a class, focus on a different digraph or blend each week during phonics lessons and create a class list or word wall with words of the same digraph or blend.

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Common Digraphs and Blends Bookmark - K-3 Teacher Resources

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Ideal to use as a bookmark during independent and guided reading and writing activities as a reference for children when learning phonics to read and write. How to use this resource: Print and cut in half to create two bookmarks. Fold each bookmark in half then laminate.

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Ideal to use in the classroom as a whole class or small group activity when learning how to read and spell CVC, CVCC and CCVC words.

How to use this resource:

Select and download the required font.

Select the gameboard and game cards most suitable for the needs of your class.

Print multiple sets of the pages required, (enough for the whole class or a small group of children). You could also put the pages in a plastic sleeve so they can be wiped cleaned and used multiple times.

Read the explain the instructions.

Model how to play the game.

Arrange children into pairs and provide each pair with 2 x gameboards, 2x whiteboard pens and a set of word cards.

Ask the children to work with a partner to take it in turns to be the cardholder and the person who guesses the letters of the word.

Monitor and support the children as they play the game.

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Beat the Blast Off Game - K-3 Teacher Resources

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Ideal to use in the classroom as a whole class or small group activity when learning how to read and spell CVC, CVCC and CCVC words. How to use this resource: Select and download the required font. Select the gameboard and game cards most suitable for the needs of your class.

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Ideal to use during phonics lessons and literacy rotations.

Five middle sound CVC worksheets focusing on each vowel, a, e, i, o and u.

A color and black and white version for each of the worksheets has been provided in the download.

How to use this teaching resource

During whole class phonics lessons, provide each child with a black and white worksheet to stretch out their sounds and fill in the missing vowel.

Alternatively, print and laminate a set of color worksheets for students to fill in the middle sound with removable markers during literacy rotations.

What comes next? - Cut out each individual card and laminate to create a class set. Use each card as a flash card during literacy warm up activites. Display each card to the class and encourage them to call out the missing sound.

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Middle Sound CVC Worksheets - K-3 Teacher Resources

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Ideal to use during phonics lessons and literacy rotations. Five middle sound CVC worksheets focusing on each vowel, a, e, i, o and u. A color and black and white version for each of the worksheets has been provided in the download.

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Ideal to use as a display poster in the classroom as a reference for children when learning phonics.

How to use this resource:

Print and laminate this poster and use it as part of your literacy display.

Encourage students to refer to the poster when reading and writing new words, or when identifying words of the same word family.

Focus on a different word family each week as a class during phonics lessons.

What's next? - During shared reading opportunities, identify different word families in the text. Add new words of the same word family to a class word wall.

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Word Families Chart - K-3 Teacher Resources

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Ideal to use as a display poster in the classroom as a reference for children when learning phonics. How to use this resource: Print and laminate this poster and use it as part of your literacy display. Encourage students to refer to the poster when reading and writing new words, or when identifying words of the same word family.

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22 x Printable Short Vowel Foldable Phonics Books

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22 Short Vowel Foldable Phonics Books for most popular short vowel and long vowel word families.

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Printable Word Family Picture Spinners

Thanks to Jessica for suggesting this resource....

Includes:

all CVC / 2 letter word families for short vowels.

black and white as well as colour versions of each

large A4 size and smaller A5 sizes for each

blank spinner template for children to draw, write and create their own word family spinner versions

Large sizes are great to have in the classroom laminated for whole class reference and "play"

Smaller black and white or colour versions are ideal for each child to make up individually.

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Printable Word Family Picture Spinners Thanks to Jessica for suggesting this resource.... Includes: all CVC / 2 letter word families for short vowels.

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Ideal to use as a literacy group activity.

Children use the word detective pyramid to 'pull-apart' a word into its letters, syllables and sounds/graphemes.

How to use this resource

Print off a worksheet for each child or enlarge a copy to use as a whole class. Alternatively, print and laminate a class set for repetitive use with a removable marker.

Ask students to use words from their weekly vocab/theme or spelling lists to complete the pyramid.

Encourage the children to relate the sounds/graphemes 'pulled out' from each word to the phoneme/grapheme charts.

What comes next? - For a challenge, provide students with a more difficult word list or use the sounds/graphemes row for children to find the appropriate grapheme tile and glue the word together using these sound/grapheme tiles and the bottom row as a guide.

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Ideal to use as a literacy group activity. Children use the word detective pyramid to 'pull-apart' a word into its letters, syllables and sounds/graphemes. How to use this resource Print off a worksheet for each child or enlarge a copy to use as a whole class.

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Phonic Memory Game is a simple exercise on phonics for preschoolers. It is designed to teach and reinforce the concept of basic phonic sounds which help in early reading and writing skills. In this exercise, kids will test their knowledge of phonics by flipping the cards and matching the pictures to the correct phonic sounds. They will learn the correct pronunciation of words and sharpen their memory skills as well.

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Phonic Memory Game is a simple exercise on phonics for preschoolers. It is designed to teach and reinforce the concept of basic phonic sounds which help in early reading and writing skills. In this exercise, kids will test their knowledge of phonics by flipping the cards and matching the pictures to the correct phonic sounds.

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What is Phonics?

Phonics is a method for teaching word identification strategies based on the relationships between letters and sounds. In Lexia ® Core5 ® Reading, phonics activities include the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to reading and spelling words. In addition, phonics activities involve pattern recognition of syllable types, rules for syllable division, and simple spelling generalizations that are based on letter-sound correspondence.

What is the role of Phonics in learning how to read?

Phonics knowledge is important for developing accurate, and ultimately automatic, word identification skills. In learning to read, children initially rely heavily on phonic word attack strategies. They learn that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds. At first, this allows them to decode words and build their knowledge of letter patterns. They begin to remember these letter patterns and eventually recognize most words by sight. This automaticity is essential for developing reading fluency and contributes to efficient and effective reading comprehension. Phonic word attack strategies continue to be important in the later grades when students encounter unfamiliar words in text.

What is the approach to developing Phonics in Lexia Core5 Reading?

Phonics activities in Lexia Core5 Reading begin with building letter-sound correspondence knowledge and progress to include activities that require the application of this knowledge to decoding isolated words as well as decodable phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The use of decodable text for beginning readers is essential for building the skills necessary to identify unfamiliar words and supports the development of automatic word recognition skills. Students gain an understanding of syllable types, syllable division, and simple spelling rules that are based on letter-sound correspondences as they build their decoding skills.

Initial phonics activities begin with identification of letter symbols and the alphabetic sequence. Students are then introduced to the relationships between sounds and letters for consonants and vowels as they match letters to the sounds in pictured words. This letter-sound knowledge is quickly applied to written words in tasks that require the analysis of initial and final consonants as well as medial vowels. These letter-sound activities reinforce phonemic awareness.

Students then learn to recognize letter patterns as they identify open, closed, and silent-e syllables in one-syllable words. In subsequent activities, they learn to combine syllables to construct and read two-syllable words. They also learn to apply phonic word attack strategies to read decodable phrases and sentences. Activities throughout the phonics strand aim to strengthen phonemic awareness skills as students continually analyze and manipulate the sequence of letters in words.

As students progress through the program, they are introduced to more complex sound and syllable patterns. Ultimately, students learn to identify all six syllable types and the basic rules for syllable division. They are also introduced to the common spelling patterns found in single-syllable words. Throughout the vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency activities at each level of the program, students apply their phonics knowledge to read sentence- and paragraph-level text.

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What is Phonics? Phonics is a method for teaching word identification strategies based on the relationships between letters and sounds. In Lexia ® Core5 ® Reading, phonics activities include the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to reading and spelling words.