Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Irregular Words and Phonics
Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Build a Word
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the Activboard and Activprimary, students assemble words by arranging various letters on the flipchart page. Students create words given pre-assembled word endings or listen to words delivered by...
Education.com
Education.com: Rf.2.3.b Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of knowing spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
School Express
Schoolexpress.com: Long and Short Vowel Worksheets
Teachers will find an assortment of detailed worksheets that engage students learning in vowels.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Soft C and Soft G
This resource has three sections: Overview of Soft c and Soft g, video demonstration, and teaching tips. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding
This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.
Other
Sebastian Swan: Sebastian Swan's Story
Read about Sebastian Swan's swim in the lake while practicing phonemes in sentences using alliteration.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Spelling Practice
Select a Dolch word list and listen to the word the dragon speaks. Click and drag the letters to spell the word correctly. Press 'hint" to see how the word is spelled or press "skip" to go to another word.
Primary Games
Primary Games: Word Candy
In this game students make as many words as they can from the letters provided to earn candy.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Abc & 123 Magnets
Children can practice alphabet, number, and punctuation recognition by clicking and dragging magnets to the refrigerator. Children will hear the letter or number when they click on a magnet. Practice writing names, birthdays or short...
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Other
Balanced reading.com: Decoding
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teacher Toolbox Decoding
What are the guidelines for decoding instruction? Explore this website from Readingrockets.org to find out the answer to this question.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Spelling Supports Reading
Many readers are puzzled by the rules and exceptions of spelling. Research has shown, however, that learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge. Read this article to learn more about the...
Education.com
Education.com: l.k.2.d Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of spelling simple words phonetically.