Phonics

Cluster Buster - Read and spell initial consonant clusters. This game runs through 26 of the initial consonant clusters that children will study in grades one and two.

Gingerbread Phonics - In this lesson, early readers in grades K–2 use familiar words from a traditional story to learn letter–sound correspondence. The teacher conducts a shared reading of The Gingerbread Man with the whole class. Students then use words from the story to practice letter–sound correspondence and write and publish their own stories online using some of these words.

Hey Diddle, Diddle: Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction - In this lesson, shared reading, guided reading, and small, cooperative-group instruction are used in a first-grade classroom to informally assess students' ability to demonstrate awareness of rhyme or other visual similarities in words

Let's Learn to Read - From Starfall.......It's Fun to Read - The next level.......I'm Reading- The next level!!! Teachers, click here........Starfall's printed materials are available free for download on this page.

Phonic Fighter - Aliens are trying to steal the alphabet......You must know what  sounds each object begins with to reclaim that letter. Select the correct object and score points!!!!

Phoneme Isolation: Building Phonemic Awareness - In this lesson, designed for a first-grade classroom, students engage in games and chants to identify beginning and ending phonemes. Students will match objects with the same beginning or ending sound, identify whether a given sound occurs at the beginning or ending of a word, and connect phonemes with graphemes.

Phonemic Awareness: Prereading Activities for Students that are Struggling - Oral techniques that are playful and engaging as well as deliberate and purposeful.

Phonics Fun for Early Readers - Beginning sounds.....interactive.

Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum - The words for this lesson are taken from the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. Students practice the generalizations by reading nursery rhymes that include words with the same vowel pairs. Students then make words from the book during an online activity.

Phonics and Word Study - A collection of online games and activities to reinforce phonics skills.

Picture Match - Choose an activity: Beginning Letter Sounds, Short Vowel Sounds, or Long Vowel Sounds......You are ready to play!!!

Student Activity Center: Blends - Click on the blend that begins or ends the picture name. Click for activity on  Beginning Consonant Diagraphs. Click for Ending Consonant Diagraphs.

Updated: October 17, 2004
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This game runs through 37 of the easier Year 1 and 2 high frequency words.