Break the Code with Short Vowels
In this activity, students practice recognizing, sounding out, blending and reading words with short vowels.
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Short Vowel Word List
Use this helpful list of words to teach consonant and short vowel grapheme-phoneme correspondences.
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Letter Formation Student Desk Chart
Use these desk strips as a visual support for students, as well as a helpful reminder of the strokes for correct letter formation.
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Letter Formation Cards
Download this alphabet card set for your whole class and small group instruction, with helpful letter formation stroke patterns.
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Segmenting Phonemes in Spoken Words Lesson Plan
Use this lesson plan to teach students to segment words into their individual phonemes.
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Say It, Move It
This is a lesson plan and student material sheet for a “Say It and Move It” lesson that explicitly teaches students to segment words.
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Identifying Middle Phonemes
This is a lesson plan for the explicit instruction of isolating the middle sound in words.
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Identifying Ending Phonemes
Use this lesson plan to explicitly teach students to identify the final sound in words.
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Identifying Beginning Phonemes
This lesson plan outlines an instructional routine for explicitly teaching students to isolate the first sound in words.
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Phoneme Awareness Word List
This document provides a list of words for phonemic awareness instruction, with words carefully organized by number of sounds and stop/continuant sounds.
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Phoneme Blending and Segmenting Diagnostic Assessment
This is a short assessment to assess students’ mastery of phoneme segmenting and blending.
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Blending and Segmenting Games
This Reading Rockets article provides materials and resources for several activities to teach blending and segmenting. The authors provide research that supports the use of each of these activities.