Two summers ago, I started making some monthly write and color writing prompt pages as a fun way to integrate some seasonal writing, but did finish all of them. Well, I’ve been working hard to finish them up! Currently June through October have already been posted for free {you can find them in my Elementary Printables, under “Writing”}. These are great for K-2nd grade!

If you purchase the bundle pack, there’s an added bonus~ Vocabulary Sheet Pages for each season to help the student spell words! {These will not be available with the free downloads.}

Write and Color Writing Prompts Bundle Pack Download – $2 {Click “Add to Cart” below}

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Teaching Kids to Spell

Enough said. Just reading those words may make your hair stand on end or send shivers up your spine. For some, teaching kids to spell ranks right up there with teaching kids to write or getting a root canal. Teaching kids to spell can also conjure up lots of questions, such as:

• Is spelling instruction even important?
• If so, what words do I teach?
• Should I let my child misspell words…ever?
• Why does my child misspell words, even after he’s learned them?
• What should spelling instruction look like?
• How do I teach spelling effectively?
• Is it phonics or is it sight words?
• What kind of spelling instruction does my struggling reader need?

I am very excited to announce the launch of my new ebook (PDF file), Teaching Kids to Spell: A Developmental Approach to Spelling. I believe spelling is probably one of the most misunderstood topics within literacy. I certainly did not understand it when I first started teaching in the classroom. But after being introduced to a developmental approach to spelling and teaching through the lens of this model with all kinds of students, it clicked for me and for my students (including my own children). Please note: The intended audience for this book is parents, but teachers and tutors could also benefit from the information in it. My own understanding of spelling development deepened as I was writing it.

Topics Covered in Teaching Kids to Spell

You can look through the Table of Contents from my book (see above) and read through some of my descriptions below to get an idea of what you’ll find inside:

• Debunking some of the myths about misspellings, such as “Something is wrong because my child cannot spell as well as he can read.”
• Understanding WHY kids misspell words
• Spelling Development- How do spellers progress in their understanding of the alphabet, phonics, and word meanings?
• Invented Spelling– What is it? Is it okay? When is it NOT okay? Does it serve a purpose?
• Spelling Strategies- Strategies to teach spellers in every stage of spelling, including ideas such as: stretching out words and writing the sounds the child hears, studying word patterns or chunks, visualizing words, and studying word meanings as they relate to spelling.
• Sight Words- What are they? How important are they? Ways to hold kids accountable to the sight words you have taught.
• Hands-On Spelling Ideas for teaching the alphabet and phonics patterns (There are over 100 ideas in this chapter!)
• Exceptional Products and and Resources for Teaching Spelling- I’ve included a ton of resources and products to help teach spelling to your child.
• An appendix containing many practical charts and printables to guide you through the process of teaching kids to spell. {You can download this Printable Resource Pack for teaching spelling by subscribing to This Reading Mama via email!}

So, if teaching kids to spell sends shivers up your spine or makes your hair stand on end, you will WANT to read this book! I KNOW you will find practical ideas for teaching your own kids to spell. Not in the traditional way of drills, worksheets and Friday testing, but in meaningful, hands-on, and developmentally appropriate ways.

Want to discover developmentally appropriate and hands-on ways to teach spelling? Then purchase your copy today for just $3.99.
Please note this is a PDF file.

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If you’re looking for some fun and hands-on ways to help your student or child learn how to read and spell short vowel (CVC) words, look no further! Included in this HUGE pack are 14+ activities that make learning short vowel words FUN! Read more about each activity listed below here.

• Short Vowel Playdough Mats*
• Picture and Word Matching*
• Clip Cards (clip matching sounds)
• Clip Cards (clip the one that DOESN’T match)
• Cut & Paste Pages (2 levels)
• Short Vowel Sound Coloring Pages
• Bottle Cap Mats (use with short vowel pictures)
• Short Vowel Building Mats (2 levels)
• Spin & Spell CVC Words*
• 1-2-3 Spell It! & 1-2-3- Flip It!
• CVC BINGO
• CVC Rhyming Word Blackout
• Short Vowel Mazes*
• Short Vowel & Sight Word Sorting Words

*These printables are BONUS GOODIES in this pack!

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Please note: Reading the Alphabet was designed for children who already know their letters and letters sounds. If your child still needs to work on learning letters and their sounds, Learning the Alphabet will be a better fit for your child.

What is Reading the Alphabet? It’s a hands-on way to get your child reading. Does your child know most of her letters and letter sounds? Maybe she’s too young for Kindergarten curriculum just yet. Does your child have special needs and a reading curriculum that moves at a deeper and slower pace would fit him/her? Reading the Alphabet is built on my experience with teaching emergent and struggling readers as well as my studies of what young readers need to be successful readers.

Reading the Alphabet Targets these Reading Skills:

• recognizing and making rhymes
• counting and blending syllables
• phonics and reinforcing letter sounds, applied to reading
• beginning sight words (26 beginning sight words are introduced, one with each letter)
• print awareness
• matching voice to print
• reading and sounding out early CVC words such as mat, hot, or bug
• fine motor skills, such as lacing, tracing, and cutting
• beginning handwriting for upper and lower case letters

Reading the Alphabet also contains math activities that correlate with each letter of the alphabet, including

• one-to-one correspondence
• number recognition 1-20
• making patterns
• beginning addition

In this bundled pack ($10), you’ll find these extra goodies:

1-page readers

lacing cards

handwriting pages (that reinforce letter sounds, too!)

a DIFFERENT sight word song for each word!

extra dice games for beginning learners

printable sight word cards

AND MUCH MORE!

You can buy the Updated & Expanded Version for just $10 by clicking “Add to Cart” below:

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Do your kids like to play BINGO? Mine sure do! So much so that I created a Phonics BINGO Bundle Pack. It’s 62 page long and includes six phonics BINGO Games, perfect for ages Pre-K through 2nd grade!

Phonics BINGO Bundle Pack Includes:

1. Beginning Sounds BINGO (letters and their beginning sounds)*
2. Beginning Blends BINGO (for kids who are ready to listen for the beginning blend sounds in words)
3. CVC BINGO (includes words like cat, red, and bug)*
4. Beginning and Ending Blend BINGO (includes short vowel words with blends)
5. CVCe Long Vowel BINGO (includes words such as skate, rope, and chute)*
6. Long Vowel BINGO (vowel pairs and other vowel patterns such as rain, sheep, light, snow, or chew)

*These packs are new and can currently only be found in this bundle pack!

In each game, you’ll find SIX different BINGO boards and corresponding picture cards (with the featured word included). This pack is perfect for literacy small groups in a classroom, homeschool co-op or at home with your own children.

You can purchase this Phonics BINGO Bundle Pack for $2.99. Just click “Add to Cart” below!

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Please note: These ABC packs for children who are LEARNING their letters and letter sounds. If your child already knows his/her letters and letters sounds, Reading the Alphabet is the next step you can use with your child.

Would you like a fun and playful way to teach kids the alphabet? Learning the Alphabet helps kids learn their letters and letter sounds through hands-on activities. There are very few worksheet-like activities. Most are interactive and get kids playing with their letters. Below are all the activities included for each letter lesson. You can also read more about Learning the Alphabet and see it in action here.

• Letter book (color and black/white)
• Tracing Page
• Letter Lacing Cards
• Roll and Race! (sorting upper and lowercase letters)
• Cut & Paste Letter Sounds
• Letter Puzzles
• Roll a Letter Sound
• Letter coloring pages (or adapt another way)
• Do-a-Dot Alphabet Pages
• 10-Grid
• Interactive Playdough Mat
• Cover the Number (1-10)
• Counting cards (1-10)
• BONUS Material- with SIX extra goodies, including picture cards, wall cards, and Alphabet Tic-Tac-Toe

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I’m so excited to share with you that my first ebook is HERE! (Please note this is a PDF file.) It’s called How to Choose “Just Right” Books: Helping Kids Grow as Readers (Purchase link is at the end of this blog post). Throughout my journey of blogging, I have been asked a lot of questions about reading. “How do I know if a book is just right for my reader?” ranks within my top 10 for sure. The answer to this question is a lot more complicated than the common five finger rule, especially for reluctant or struggling readers! So I’ve taken the information I learned while getting my M.Ed. in Elementary Reading, my experience as a classroom teacher and private reading tutor of struggling readers, and the experience I’ve had over the last four years with my own young readers at home and bundled it all up in one place! Whew!

In How to Choose “Just Right” Books, you will find:

• the theory behind and importance of “just right” books, explained without all the teacher words
• factors that determine “just right” texts
• practical tips for determining the grade level of a book
• creative ideas and texts for older struggling readers
• how to make observations as a child reads aloud
• helpful hints for asking comprehension questions
• how to put it all together to discover that “just right” book level

You can view the general topics below:

What Others are Already Saying About How to Choose “Just Right” Books

Becky Spence knows her stuff — she’ll help you be like Goldilocks to discover a “just right” book for your growing, hungry readers. And, she gives you lots of yummy tips to make the reading more delicious!

-Melissa Taylor, author of Book Love and blogger at Imagination Soup

How To Choose “Just Right” Books approaches the topic of choosing out books for your children in a friendly and easy to read manner while filling the reader with the most important details on the subject.  It clarifies common misconceptions with sound reasoning and gives valuable tips on how to encourage avid reading in your children through the selection of “just right” books.  Becky’s substantial expertise and experience is evident and makes this book an invaluable piece for any parent wanting to learn about how to select the most appropriate books for their children.

– Sarah of Stay at Home Educator

Becky Spence will empower you as a teacher by helping you understand exactly how you can help kids grow as readers.  These tips, tools, and techniques are summed up and organized into an easy to read and understand format in her new book, How to Choose “Just Right” Books. Becky covers almost everything I learned during my own ‘teach to read’ experiences, both in college and as a Kindergarten teacher.”

– Carisa of 1+1+1=1

Whether you are a parent, tutor, or teacher; Becky’s book is a must-have guide for you to refer to as you help a struggling reader. This book was written in a user friendly way with concise directions and suggestions to guide you each time you select a book.

-Adrianne Meldrum of The Tutor House

I am so impressed Becky’s book. Every page is packed with easy to understand but deeply rich information.

-Malia of Playdough to Plato

How to Choose “Just Right” Books: Helping Kids Grow as Readers sells for $3.99. To purchase your own copy, click “Add to Cart” below.
Please note this is a PDF File.

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If you’ve played our free 1-2-3 FLIP IT! with your child, you will be excited to use 1-2-3 SPELL IT! It’s a bit more challenging than 1-2-3 FLIP IT! and in our bundle pack, you’ll find game boards for several different phonics patterns.

How to Play:

1-2-3 SPELL IT! is played in a similar fashion as Uno. Each player gets 7 letter cards. The object is to be the first player to get rid of all your cards. The way you get rid of your cards is by playing a letter card from your hand on the game board that will spell a REAL word {only real words are allowed}. Once you’ve spelled the real word, you must read it. Both players must agree that it is indeed a real word! Players take turns in this manner until one player is out of cards. Further directions are on the first page of the download.

In the deck, I’ve also included these Wild Cards. If a player has a Wild Card in her hand, she may substitute it for any letter {consonant or vowel} to help her create a real word on the board. When a player plays the Wild Card, she must tell what letter the Wild Card represents, then she must read the word created.

Is your child ready for more spelling games? Then, you may want to purchase my 1-2-3 FLIP IT! / 1-2-3 SPELL IT! Pack for $2. In this 47-page pack are FLIP IT! and SPELL IT! game boards and cards for:

• Short Vowel Words
• Short Vowel with Blends and Digraphs (such as stop, clam, or black)
• Long Vowel with Silent e (such as name, home, or bike)
• Long Vowel Digraphs (such as road, bead, or rain)
• R-Controlled Vowels (such as bird, turn, or herd)

1-2-3 FLIP IT! ~ SPELL IT! Pack Download – $2 {Click “Add to Cart” below}

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The short vowel sounds can be tricky for many kids. If you teach students or children at home who need helpful reminders for the short vowel sounds, this short vowel sounds resource pack is a great tool for helping them remember the sounds.

Included in this 38-page pack are color and black & white printables that feature printed font as well as manuscript font with:

wall charts {with cute patterns} – with the initial short vowel sounds

and wall charts for the short vowel sounds in the middle of words

a 1-page short vowel resource page

short vowel bookmarks

$2.00 Add to cart

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If you like hands-on games that you can just print and play to teach phonics skills, you’ll love these low prep phonics games!

Based on our popular low prep series called Print & Play, this MEGA bundle pack not only includes some of those games, but this bundle pack more than doubles the amount of low prep phonics games you get! Woohoo!

There are over 300 games included based on these phonics patterns:

• beginning consonant sounds
• ending consonant sounds
• short (CVC) vowel words (3 levels)
• blends and digraphs (2 levels)
• r-influence vowels (3 levels) + Bonus Review Games
• CVCe Words (2 levels) + Bonus Review Game
• Long Vowel (CVVC) Patterns (2 levels)
• Diphthongs and Other Vowels (2 levels)

For each phonics pattern, a game board is included that kids can play alone or with a partner. You only need to grab a couple of easy supplies first!

The pack also includes another low prep phonics game board for the SAME phonics pattern! This one can be played by one player or by two and adds a die to the mix.

Other game packs include boards in which kids have to not only identify the vowel pattern, but spell it. {This diphthong pack is not included in our Print & Play series.}

There are also spelling pages included for the game boards that use a die.

And to top it all off, there are a few bonus review games added in for some extra review!

$10.00 Add to cart

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These low prep long vowel games are super simple to implement at home or in a classroom. You only need to gather a few small manipulatives and you can just print and play. You can find the free version of these games in our Print & Play series, but this pack has twice as many game boards!

Included in this pack are more than 50 different game boards for CVCe words (a_e, i_e, o_e, & u_e) and CVVC/CVV words (ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, -y, oa, ow, & ew).

These games are easy to adapt for 1 player, 2 players, or even more! Play with a small group, use as a literacy center, or pull it out for some independent practice, such as morning work.

Save money and buy the bundle pack, which includes beginning sounds, ending sounds, blends/digraphs, short vowel words, r-influenced words, long vowel words, and words with diphthongs and other vowels such as oi and aw.

Samples:

Short a / Long a Sort

Long i and Long u – Play AND Spell Board

Long a (AY) and Long i (-Y) Game Board

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Beginning letter sounds are the first step in teaching phonics to kids. And these simple games can make it easy and fun to learn and review those letter sounds. Some beginning sounds games can be found for free in our Print & Play series, but there are twice as many in this pack!

Included in this pack are 24 different game boards for these beginning consonant sounds: b, c (hard and soft), d, f, g (hard and soft), h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q(u), r, s, t, v, w, y, and z.

These games are easy to adapt for 1 player, 2 players, or even more! Play with a small group, use as a literacy center, or pull it out for some independent practice, such as morning work. And the best part is they’re LOW PREP. You only need to grab a bag of your favorite small manipulatives and a die to play.

Samples:

Kids are asked to listen for and identify two different beginning sounds at the same time. The sounds chosen are very different from one another. Two game boards are included for each of the beginning sound pairs.

M & T Beginning Sound Game Boards

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If your child or student is ready to move on from short vowel sounds to long vowel sounds, then this long vowel sounds resource pack is a great fit!

Included in this 38-pg pack are wall cards for the initial and middle long vowel sound in words, in color and black and white. Plus, you’ll find the wall cards in two different fonts! The wall cards can be hung on a wall space near students or at a center or work work area. Or place them on the floor for a quick hopscotch game!

The bookmarks are perfect for little hands to carry the sounds around or take them home.

And the 1-page phonics chart is a great tool for a reading notebook or writer’s notebook {probably my favorite resource in the pack}.

There are lots of different ways these resources can be used by teachers and students!

$3.50 Add to cart

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These CVC Words Activity Pages are a great way to help kids practice reading and spelling those sometimes tricky short vowel sounds!

These activity pages are designed so kids can be as interactive as they’d like to be with CVC words. Pull out your dot paint, transparent counters, Power Magnets or just go with the traditional pencil and crayons. Either way, kids get practice reading, analyzing, coloring, and writing their CVC short vowel words!

Included in the pack are FOUR different CVC worksheets for each vowel sound.
That’s 20 pages of CVC activities!

You can view free samples of each vowel sound here.

$3.50 Add to cart

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Printable Spelling Activities & Games

When you purchase this ebook, you will get four digital downloads* with over 700 pages of spelling activities and games to help make spelling fun! {*This a PDF, not a printed, hard copy book.}

Included are printable activities and games for sight words and phonics words mainly for the K-3rd grade age range. Students who are younger or older may also enjoy them, if you feel they are developmentally appropriate for them.

Many of the phonics and sight word activities are color-coded so it’s easy to identify what skill level they are and many pages are editable, so you can quickly customize the activities. The activities are also clearly marked so you’ll know if it works better with sight words, phonics words, or both. Each activity has photographs and directions, showing you exactly how to prep and play/use the printables!

Sample Pages:

Click on the image below to see a 30-page sample, including the table of contents, where you’ll find all the games and activities listed.

More Details:

This file contains editable pages! When you open your PDF {I recommend using the latest version of Adobe Reader}, you will be able to click on any of the blue boxes and type your own words in to make the games and activities match your students’ needs!

Here are just a few of the spelling activities included:

• sight word lists and cards {I’ve combined Dolch and Fry’s list to make 5 different sight word lists for K-3 learners}
• self-checking phonics picture cards for short vowels {CVC & harder}, long vowels {CVCe and CVVC/CVV}, diphthongs {such as oi, ou, or aw}
• phonics word cards
• hands-on spelling games that get kids interacting with words by fishing, building, writing, hopscotching, analyzing, matching, and more!
• printable word wall folders {ready-made with sight words for each level or print the blank ones}
• printable spelling charts for letters, digraphs/blends, short vowels, long vowels, and other vowels, like diphthongs
• appendix with links to more spelling activities and games for any word list, short vowels, long vowels, sight words, and seasonal fun

And, of course, many of the activities come in color AND in black/white to save money on that precious colored ink!

Before each activity, a page is included that explains how to prep and play or use the activities. I often link to this Spelling Supplies page because it has many of the products that we use on a regular basis to prep and play with spelling.

This book is ON SALE NOW! Enjoy 25% off.
Offer expires Sunday, November 1.

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Polar Express Learning Pack

This activity pack is loaded with literacy and math activities {nearly 200 pages}!! It’s a GREAT fit for K-1st learners, although there are certainly activities that preschoolers and 2nd graders could use, too!

This pack also contains 4 EDITABLE activities that can be modified and adapted for lots more learning. See the editable notes below.

Part 1: Polar Express Literacy Activities

Within the literacy section of the pack are these activities:

1. Phonological Awareness & Beginning Phonics Activities

• rhyming word hot chocolate matching
• syllable clip cards
• beginning sound letter matching
• beginning sound stamping worksheet
• beginning letter sounds train sorts {with pictures}
• middle short vowel sounds train sorts {with pictures}

2. Phonics & Spelling Activities

• short and long vowel train sorts {with words}; includes “oddball” train cars and EDITABLE PAGE, too!
• written sorts for spelling phonics words
• Roll & Read Game Board {EDITABLE!!}
• Polar Express Dice
• spelling little words from bigger words such as, Polar Express, Hot Chocolate, Silver Bell, and Merry Christmas
• tickets with letters for spelling activities

3. Comprehension & Writing Activities

• picture comprehension sort – it’s in the story or not in the story
• book and movie comparison sort
• book and movie comparison worksheet
• sequencing cards – using pictures, sentences, and numbers
• sequencing worksheets
• vocabulary cards
• figure of speech hunt
• comprehension questions and writing pages

Part 2: Polar Express Math Activities

Within the math section of the pack are these activities:

1. Numbers

• dot pages for numbers 1-10 and 11-20
• dot pages for 1 die
• rote counting mazes {for numbers 1-200}
• ordering numbers {EDITABLE PAGE!!}
• greater than, less than train cars {EDITABLE PAGE!!}
• even and odd game with 3 levels of play

2. Operations & Algebraic Thinking

• cut and pattern cards
• ways to represent numbers train sorts {1-20}
• dot pages for addition to 12 {number sentences included or use two dice}
• 12 Squares game for 2 players {addition, subtraction, beginning multiplication and division can also be included}
• addition game
• double digit addition game {no remainder}
• double addition recording sheet
• base ten game with jingle bells

3. Measurement & Data

• roll & tally activities
• roll & graph activities
• roll, tally, graph and record activity
• money {for penny, nickel, dime, and quarter}
• telling time to hour, half hour, and quarter hour activities

4. Geometry

• 2D shapes attributes matching
• 3D objects attributes matching
• pattern block building mats
• pattern block graphing

5. Word Problems

• word problems based on the Polar Express theme
• word problem recording sheet {for showing work}
• writing word problems {number sentence is given; students write a word problem}

Click HERE to see a sample pack!

Purchase at my Teachers Pay Teachers store or Add to Cart below.

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Kids just love snow and snowmen, don’t they? This HUGE pack of snowmen for pre-readers and beginning readers is the perfect activity to add some fun to your literacy time! {age range around Pre-k to 1st grade}.

Build a Snowman Phonics Pack

Included in this pack are color & blackline snowman building activities for:

• beginning letter sounds {including short vowel beginning sounds and hard/soft c/g}
• short vowel word families {4 common word families for each vowel}
• short vowel sounds {a mix of CVC words}
• beginning blends and digraphs
• the most common ending blends and digraphs

BONUS: Phonological Awareness Snowmen are also included!

• Rhyming Snowmen
• Counting Syllables Snowmen {for words with 1-4 syllables}
• Counting Phonemes Snowmen {for words with 2-5 phonemes}

Sample Pages from the Pack:

The image will become larger when you click on it. Want a sample download? Just visit my Build a Rhyming Snowman post!

Note: ALL Snowmen activity pages are available in color AND blackline!

One of my favorite parts of the pack is that you can SAVE TONS OF PREP by cutting out the snowmen along the straight lines with a paper cutter instead of cutting around every snowball.

$8.00 Add to cart

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Learning 3-letter consonant clusters can be tricky for some kids. That’s why I created this Consonant Clusters Activity Pack! It includes a variety of hands-on activities for learners.

Consonant Clusters Activity Pack

Included in this 57-page pack are these activities {in color AND black/white}

• Cut It! Sort It! Glue It! – single student pages to get kids sorting between similar 2-letter and 3-letter consonant clusters {see image below}

• Header Cards for Beginning Sounds – includes all the same beginning sounds from the single student page sorts
• Cluster Picture Cards – great for sorting by beginning sounds at the pocket chart, table top, or floor space
• 3-Letter Consonant Cluster Puzzles – You can download these puzzles for FREE!

$3.50 Add to cart

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Learn to Read: Short a Word Families {Unit 1}

Welcome to Unit 1 of Learn to Read, a reading curriculum build around short vowel family words and sight words!

Unit 1 includes four short a lessons that last five days each. {It is important that while there is a 5-day lesson plan accompanying each lesson, there is complete flexibility with using these activities.}

A Look at Each Lesson from Unit 1:

As you can see from the activity list below, each lesson has 25 or more activities that center around a different short a word family and 2 beginning sight words {from List A/List B}. All activities come in color and black/white! Most of the activities are NO PREP and easy to implement. Only a few basic teaching supplies are really needed to teach with it.

Here’s a quick run-down of the word families and sight words* included for Short a/Unit 1:

Lesson 1- AT word family / sight words: come, on {61 pages}

Lesson 2- AD word family / sight words: make, said {62 pages}

Lesson 3- AN word family / sight words: where, find {62 pages}

Lesson 4- word family review / sight words: away, with / PLUS: sight word review activities & short a extension activities {93 pages}

*All readers/lessons include review sight words, which come from Reading the Alphabet.

Sample Pages from Unit 1:

Click on the image or text below each image to preview sample pages from Unit 1. You can also download 9 free pages from the -AT family.

Click HERE to see a preview of the short a word family & sight word activities included in this pack.

$8.00 $6.40 Add to cart

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Build a Flower Phonics Pack

This spring-themed phonics pack is a great fit for Kindergarten through 2nd grades! It comes in color AND black/white and covers TONS of phonics skills, including all the ones you see below {in the order they are listed}:

• Beginning Letter Sounds
• Ending Letter Sounds {b, d, f, g, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, x, & z}
• CVC Short Vowels
• Beginning Blends and Digraphs
• Ending Blends and Digraphs
• CCVC/CVCC Short Vowels
• Bossy R
• Consonant Clusters & Trigraphs {-tch, -dge, & igh}
• CVCe Long Vowels
• Long Vowel Teams {ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, oo}
• Less Common Vowel Patterns {vowel teams & dipthongs: -y, ie, ow, oe, ew, ui, ue, ou, ow, oo, oi, oy, au, & aw}

$9.00 $6.75 Add to cart

Or purchase from my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.

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