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For young learners it is very beneficial to incorporate small games into lesson plans. Games, such as bingo, are a fun yet educational way to get their minds thinking without being forced to fill out worksheets. Rather than have students write down different long and short vowel sounds, have them try to get bingo! Use boards such as this with a variety of different vowel sounds. Each student will be given their own varied board as well as chips for place holders. The teacher will read out the words at random until a student gets bingo. As each word is called the students can state whether it is a long or short vowel sound, or at the end of the game whoever gets bingo must first correctly identify each word before winning.

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As students continue to learn how to decode words, it is important for them to be able to put these words to paper. Students should practice forming letters by simple sentences based on pictures and/or orally spoken words. In the following worksheet the student is asked to draw a picture of an activity that they do during the summertime. The student must then turn their image into print text by writing a sentence describing the picture. Sentences such as "I like to go to the beach." or "I hang out with my friends." are acceptable.

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound within the English Language. Sound charts can be used to help teach a student all the different phonemes that they may encounter when reading. A chart such as the following is useful for students to refer back to when trying to break down words.

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Phonics is a method used to develop a students' understanding of the English Language through phonemic awareness. It is the understanding that phonemes are directly related to graphemes, which in turn forms the basis of a student's ability to read. The main difference between phonics and phonemic awareness is that phonics refers to print text whereas skills of phonemic awareness are all done orally.