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Printable Reading and Phonics Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site includes 15 different phonics and reading games to download, laminate, and cut out. Includes games for phonics blends; "When two vowels go walking;" ee; ir, ur er; tion, etc.
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Interactive
Free Reading

Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Digraph (Th) Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this interactive digraph activity for the "th" sound. Students will find this interactive activity engaging and educational.
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Professional Doc
Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
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Lesson Plan
Auburn University

Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The "letterbox lesson" is a phonics lesson in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Phonics Instruction for Middle and High School El Ls

For Teachers 9th - 10th
While it may seem the most expedient solution, it is not appropriate to put an older ELL student in a lower grade to receive the appropriate reading instruction. Age-appropriate activities integrated with academic content give older...
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Unit Plan
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.