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Make STAAR review something your students actually look forward to! This Glow-Themed 3rd Grade STAAR Reading Review is packed with engaging, standards-aligned activities that turn test prep into a fun, memorable experience. Perfect for test prep season, this resource includes high-interest passages, rigorous STAAR-style questions, grammar practice, and extended constructed responses—all centered around an exciting glow-in-the-dark theme your students will LOVE! STAAR-Aligned Questions Multiple

Turn confusion into clarity (and laughter!) with this homophone activity pack designed for 2nd–4th grade learners. This resource includes explicit instruction, interactive word work, and a hilarious homophone hunt story that makes mastering tricky sound-alike words fun and memorable. Whether you're teaching flour vs. flower or bored vs. board, this set gives students repeated, meaningful practice with common homophones through matching, sentence writing, dictation, a silly comic prompt, and mo

Help your students master plural nouns and inflected endings with this fun, engaging resource! Perfect for grades 2–3, this pack combines explicit rule instruction, interactive games, and hands-on spelling practice to reinforce both regular and irregular plural noun patterns. This no-prep printable set includes anchor charts, word sorts, game boards, writing tasks, and spelling tests that make grammar and word work meaningful. Students will learn the rules (like add -s, add -es, change y to -

Looking for a fun and effective way to teach the ai and ay vowel digraphs? This printable phonics resource has everything you need to help students read, spell, and write words with the long A sound using ai and ay. Packed with rule explanations, creative activities, and meaningful practice, this set is Science of Reading–aligned and perfect for grades 2–3. Whether you're introducing the rule, reviewing spelling patterns, or providing extra encoding practice, your students will love the story-ba

Help your students crack the “Bossy R” code with this fun, no-prep phoneme-grapheme mapping activity! These interactive Google Slides™ are perfect for teaching and reinforcing the -er, -ir and -ur r-controlled vowel patterns using sound-based spelling instruction rooted in the Science of Reading. Students will listen, segment, map, and spell words with clear visuals, sound dots, and encoding lines—perfect for whole group lessons, literacy centers, or independent phonics practice. What’s Included

Help students master the tricky r-controlled vowel patterns—-ar and -or—with this engaging, no-prep Google Slides™ activity focused on phoneme-grapheme mapping and encoding! Science of Reading Aligned. Designed for Grades 2–4 and grounded in Science of Reading principles, this activity gives students repeated, multisensory exposure to words that utilize the -ar and -or r-controlled vowels. Students will segment, map, and write each word based on sounds and picture clues—making abstract spelling

Looking for an engaging way to build spelling, listening, and decoding skills at the same time? These interactive Google Slides dictation activities are designed for students to hear and write words using the various Long I spelling patterns with confidence! Each slide includes clickable audio featuring several different Long I spelling patterns. These slides are perfect for independent work, small groups, centers, or even homework. Students simply listen to the word or sentence, then type or wr

Teach the tricky “au” and “aw” vowel diphthongs with this engaging, kid-approved printable resource pack! Perfect for 2nd–4th grade classrooms, this resource combines phonics instruction, decodable reading, and hands-on activities to help your students confidently decode, spell, and understand words with the /aw/ sound. With a high-interest story like Autumn at Hawk Hill and creative practice like word sorts, Tic Tac Toe, and even charades, this resource makes learning vowel teams fun and meani

Looking for a way to make oi and oy phonics instruction actually stick? This print-and-go phonics pack is packed with decodable reading, funny stories, games, and hands-on practice to help your students confidently read and spell with the /oi/ sound. From engaging word hunts like The Forgotten Toy Box to activities that encourage decoding with joy (literally!), this set makes mastering diphthongs both meaningful and memorable. What’s Included: Funny Decodable Story: The Forgotten Toy BoxWord

Help your students master the tricky ou and ow vowel diphthongs with this engaging, laugh-out-loud phonics pack! Perfect for 2nd–4th grade readers, this set includes humorous stories (like The Cow That Farted So Loud), word hunts, spelling activities, interactive games, dictation pages, and a hands-on Play-Doh spelling idea to make diphthong practice memorable and meaningful. Whether you’re introducing the patterns, reviewing for mastery, or working with small groups, this resource offers every

Looking for a comprehensive, no-prep phonics bundle that covers ALL five long vowel sounds with engaging, high-interest activities? This Long Vowel Phonics Bundle includes everything you need to teach, practice, and assess Long A, Long E, Long I, Long O, and Long U through consistent routines, visual anchor charts, word hunts, games, dictation, and spelling assessments. Perfect for Grades 2–4, this resource is designed to align with Science of Reading strategies and helps students decode and enc

Looking for a creative way to teach the tricky long U vowel sounds? This engaging printable pack has everything you need to help students in Grades 2–4 master both sounds of Long U (/yoo/ and /oo/), using the most common spelling patterns: u, u_e, ew, ue, eu, oo, ou, ui. This science-of-reading friendly resource includes anchor charts, a unicorn-themed story, word hunts, dictation activities, spelling games, and a creative writing page that turns phonics into imaginative fun. Whether you're teac

Help your students master the many ways to spell and read the Long O sound with this engaging, no-prep printable phonics resource pack! This fun-filled unit focuses on decoding and encoding long O vowel patterns—o_e, oa, ow, oe, ough, and open syllables—through creative, low-prep activities that are perfect for centers, small groups, or whole-class instruction. Designed for Grades 2–4, this pack includes explicit visual anchors, silly dictation sentences, high-interest reading passages, and inte

This Long I Phonics Resource Pack is the ultimate toolkit for helping students in Grades 2–4 master the many ways to spell the long I sound—i, i_e, igh, y, ie, y_e—through engaging, print-and-go activities. Whether you're teaching whole group, small group, or assigning independent literacy centers, this resource includes everything you need to reinforce reading and spelling long I patterns. Included in this pack: Anchor Charts explaining each long I spelling A high-interest Word Hunt Story ("Th

Make syllable instruction stick with this comprehensive phonics resource bundle focused on syllable types and syllable division rules! Designed for 2nd–4th grade, this high-impact collection covers VCe syllables, vowel team syllables, long vowel patterns, vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and syllabication strategies using interactive notebooks, games, reading passages, dictation, and hands-on practice. This bundle is perfect for phonics units, small group intervention, literacy centers, and spiral re

Make vowel team syllables stick with this interactive notebook phonics resource! Designed for 2nd–4th grade learners, this set includes everything students need to understand, identify, and break apart vowel team syllables, including both vowel digraphs and vowel diphthongs. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small-group reinforcement, or literacy centers, this hands-on notebook set covers the most common vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow, oy, oi, etc.) and gives students opportunities to pr

Help your students become confident in reading and spelling Long A vowel patterns with this engaging and easy-to-use resource! Perfect for 2nd–4th grade, this Long A packet is packed with anchor charts, reading passages, spelling games, dictation practice, and interactive writing—all centered around the most common and tricky Long A spelling patterns: a_e, ai, ay, eigh, ea, ei, ey, a. Whether you’re introducing Long A for the first time or reteaching it for mastery, this resource makes phonics e

Master the many ways to spell the long E sound with this engaging, print-and-go resource designed for 2nd–3rd grade students! This phonics-packed product explores all the major spelling patterns for long E—including ee, ea, y, e, ie, ey, e_e, and ei—with fun, hands-on literacy activities that support decoding, encoding, and pattern recognition. Whether you're introducing long vowel spelling alternatives, reviewing high-frequency words, or boosting phonics confidence, this resource provides meani

Looking for engaging and standards-aligned phonics activities that help your students master the VCe (vowel-consonant-e) syllable type? This print-and-go resource is packed with explicit instruction, practice activities, word sorts, reading passages, and spelling lists designed to build confidence with long vowel sounds and silent e spelling rules. Perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and even as review in 4th grade, this resource gives students hands-on, meaningful exposure to all six major silent

Help your students master compound words with this fun and engaging resource pack! Perfect for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade classrooms, this print-and-go bundle includes a variety of hands-on activities to reinforce reading, spelling, and word-building skills using compound words. This Compound Words Activity Pack is designed to support phonics instruction, build vocabulary, and improve word recognition in an interactive way. With multiple formats included—cut and paste, story-based word hunts, spell