• Sound Sorting Game 🗂️ → Students sort pictures by beginning sounds.

• Phoneme Substitution 🔤 → Change “cat” to “bat” by replacing the first sound.
  (Differentiation: visual supports, Elkonin boxes, simplified options for diverse learners)

At-Home Activity:

• I Spy with Sounds 👀 – “I spy something that starts with /b/.”
  ✅ Builds auditory discrimination for all learners.

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🔗 Reading Rockets: Phonemic Awareness

• Letter-Sound Hopscotch 🎯 – Hop to a letter and say its sound.

• Word Building with Tiles 🧩 – Form CVC words with letter tiles.
  (Differentiation: tactile letters, scaffolding, multisyllabic challenges)

At-Home Activity:

• Magnetic Letter Game 🧲 – Build simple words on the fridge.
  ✅ Adaptable from CVC to blends/digraphs.

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🔗 Starfall Phonics Games

• Interactive Read-Aloud + Word Wall 🖼️ – Add new words to a classroom wall.

• Vocabulary Charades 🎭 – Act out new words.
  (Differentiation: visuals, sentence frames, simplified prompts)

At-Home Activity:

• Word of the Day 🗣️ – Families use a new word in conversations.
  ✅ Expands expressive/receptive vocabulary at any level.

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🔗 Scholastic Parents: Vocabulary Games

• Echo Reading 🔊 – Students echo teacher’s fluent reading.

• Reader’s Theater 🎬 – Perform a short play.
  (Differentiation: shorter/longer scripts, audio models, expression practice)

At-Home Activity:

• Family Poetry Night 🎤 – Child practices reading poems aloud.
  ✅ Boosts confidence, flexible text length.

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🔗 PBS Kids: Read Together

• Story Retelling with Props 🧸 – Use puppets/props to retell.

• Think-Pair-Share 💬 – Discuss comprehension questions.
  (Differentiation: sequencing cards, sentence starters, deeper inferencing)

At-Home Activity:

• Story Questions ❓ – Parents ask, “What happens next?” or “Why did the character…?”
  ✅ Builds prediction/inference skills for all learners.

Family Website:
🔗 Reading Rockets: Reading Comprehension