Start off your young English language learners with this packet of materials, which covers three weeks of instructions. After completing the unit, kids will have practiced the letters K through Z, read several story books, talked with...

This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...

Blending basic CVC letters to make words is one of the first steps to independent reading. Provided here are several images of stairs and several letters to cut and arrange. The learner rearranges the letters to form CVC patterns, sounds...

Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...

Following a brief review of vowels and consonants, scholars take part in an oral fill-in-the-blank activity in which they insert vowels into CVC words. Individually, learners circulate to locate and add vowels to CVC words hidden around...

There's a big difference between hoping and hopping. A lesson on adding vowel suffixes discusses when to double a consonant before adding a suffix such as -ed or -ing. Readers practice breaking down words into syllables and creating new...

What do a man, a can, and a fan have in common? They are all in the same word family! Young readers practice adding the first letter or letters to each word within a particular word family.

American students can show their patriotism by coloring Uncle Sam's hat with red and blue! To do so, they need to identify which words are real and which ones are made up.

Combining foods can be interesting—and delicious! Follow along as Pam and Sam try the taste of jam on ham with a short video that features a story all about rhyming. 

Reinforce rhyming skills with a brief video featuring a story about siblings, Dot and Scot, and their puppy, Spot.

Reinforce concepts such as long vowels, spelling patterns, sound clusters, double-final consonants, and syllables with a nature-themed unit. Through a series of extra support lessons, learners compare and contrast using a Venn diagram,...

Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments, bodies of water, things found at a...

Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.

Jan Brett's Town Mouse Country Mouse serves as a reading tool for little learners in a set of worksheets. After kids read the story, they work on new vocabulary, compare the two mice in a Venn diagram, and analyze word consonant blends.

These silly penguins are just asking to be colored in! Similar to paint-by-numbers, kids color in these penguins based on the words written on the drawing. They color in anything in the -it family black and the -in family orange.

Let these ladybugs teach your youngsters a thing or two about spelling CVC words. Kids color the real words black and the fake words red to reveal what these ladybugs really look like.

Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode and...

Practice spelling and word recognition with a list of animals. Each animal shows a picture and name of the animal with one letter missing. The letters vary from consonants to vowels, and is a great spelling exercise.

Who knew short vowel sounds could be so much fun? Beginning readers use picture cards, things around the room, and simple worksheets to practice with the short a, short e, short i, short o, and short u sounds. 

Which of these have /u/ as a middle sound? There are images of seven CVC words surrounding the letter u here, and scholars draw lines from the letter to words with the same middle phoneme. Be sure they know what these images are...

As scholars become more comfortable with initial sound correspondence, introduce them to medial sounds. As they focus on the vowel sound /i/, youngsters examine a set of images and draw a line from the letter i to any with that middle...

Get pre-readers comfortable with phoneme substitution using these helpful letter cards, which are printable in three different sizes depending on your classroom needs. Once scholars understand some letter sounds, they can begin...