Phonics: Fishing for Vowel Digraphs

Adorn your walls with these posters to support your pupils as they learn various vowel sounds and digraphs. Each poster includes a focus sound (the ai digraph, for example), a large image paired with a word that demonstrates that sound,...

It can be awfully hard teaching young children how to read, but this phonics resource will make the job a little easier. Focusing on the au and aw vowel digraphs, this collection of engaging activities teaches beginning readers how to...

Send home this learning exercise to give your youngsters practice spelling words with ow and ew vowel patterns. They read through the list of 10 vocabulary words, spelling them on the lines to the right. There's even a fun game that...

In this recognizing vowel digraphs instructional activity, students read and listen to words with the vowel sounds ee, ai, and oa and identify other words with the same vowel sounds. Students identify ten words.

Print and distribute this sheet to help your youngsters with the long e sound, spelled ea, ee, ei, or ie. They look at different words (wearies, heaved, be, relieved, pealed, etc.), and read a passage about sports. There's even a...

Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...

In this phonics recognition worksheet, students use a word bank to list words with vowel sounds in cow and low, identify words in context that have the vowel sound heard at the beginning of author, and identify words with the "oy" and...

Familiarize your class with the letter combination ue, and distribute this worksheet. They use a list of six words to match them to their clue. For example, number one says save someone, and the learner must select rescue. They write the...

Sing a little song for a variety of vowel and consonant blends. Each piece is to a tune of a popular children's song. Chant the sound along with a small action!

Do you hear the long /i/ or the long /e/ sound? Kids read through 11 examples and decide which of the two sounds is used. Example words include die, flies, and shield. Correct the spelling error (sheild) before distributing this worksheet.