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Looking to incorporate word mapping activities into your reading/writing instruction? These orthographic mapping mats are just what you need! Use these festive templates to making mapping words fun!These word mapping worksheets encourage students to think about the SOUNDS in words first, and THEN attach spellings to those sounds. Engaging in word work in this way takes many LESS REPETITIONS for words to be stored permanently in the brain for reading and writing. Plus, your students will love

Looking to incorporate word mapping activities into your reading/writing instruction? These orthographic mapping mats are just what you need! Use these festive templates to making mapping words fun!These word mapping worksheets encourage students to think about the SOUNDS in words first, and THEN attach spellings to those sounds. Engaging in word work in this way takes many LESS REPETITIONS for words to be stored permanently in the brain for reading and writing. Plus, your students will love

Are you looking for engaging and effective mnemonic alphabet flashcards that will help students to learn the letter names and sounds more quickly? This digital and print alphabet flashcards pack is just what you need to help your students secure alphabet sounds and letter formation! This resource is perfect for introducing new letters or for alphabet sound drills. ❉ What are embedded mnemonic letters? ❉ Research has proven that  embedded picture alphabets are more effective than letters with a

Looking for a visual for students as you explain the difference between vowels and consonants? Download these posters to use as a reference as you teach about the definitions of vowels and consonants.

Looking to incorporate word mapping activities into your reading/writing instruction? This orthographic mapping template pack is just what you need! Use these festive templates to making mapping words fun!These word mapping worksheets encourage students to think about the SOUNDS in words first, and THEN attach spellings to those sounds. Engaging in word work in this way takes many LESS REPETITIONS for words to be stored permanently in the brain for reading and writing. Plus, your students wil

Looking to encourage the orthographic mapping process? Keep it engaging and FUN with this orthographic mapping mat pack to support students as they map newly learned phonemes to graphemes. Keep engagement high for mapping words with over 150 festive templates that encourage the use of FUN materials to match speech to print! Students will use these templates to tap the sounds in the word, splitting it into individual phonemes. Students then spell the sounds using the sound boxes for support. F

If you're looking for fun, hands-on CVC word activities, than these CVC blending and segmenting worksheets are just what you need! When introducing letter sounds to young readers, it is important to include opportunities for building simple CVC words with learned graphemes in order to encourage the ability to blend sounds together. These no prep worksheets will provide your students with a routine for phoneme segmentation and blending. Oh, and did I mention they get to use fidget poppers!

Looking for Valentines Day party games or Valentine’s day activities that students will LOVE?? Check out this EYE SPY digital activity! This no prep digital game can be used as a brain break activity, a class reward, or as a part of your Valentine’s Day celebrations and learning stations! How It Works * 20 included “I Spy” slides, increasing in complexity *Students can use drag and drop as they find the objects. Slides are provided in either PowerPoint or Google Slides.* Math extension sheet

Making the switch to science of reading based practices? Try these themed word mapping templates! We want to train our students to form a mental habit in decoding and encoding words, and these orthographic mapping templates add a bit of fun to the process! These phoneme grapheme mapping worksheets encourage students to think about the SOUNDS in words first, and THEN attach spellings to those sounds. Engaging in word work in this way takes many LESS REPETITIONS for words to be stored permanent

Phoneme segmentation is ESSENTIAL for reading success - create routines for counting sounds in words and provide students with lots of practice through using these segmenting sounds activities! Students LOVE these phonemic awareness activities and will constantly ask when it's time for word work! ❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊ What’s Included?Phoneme Cards and Practice Activities✭144 Total picture cards to practice counting the sounds in words 16 two phoneme words 48 three phonem

Are your students working on segmentation and needing practice for counting phonemes? Provide lots of opportunities to boost students’ phonemic awareness skills with these activities for counting phonemes in words! This resource provides you with 144 phoneme cards and accompanying games and printables to practice phoneme segmentation. Looking for more resources to introduce, practice and assess this skill? You may be interested in Phoneme Segmentation Slides and Fidget Popper Segmenting Work

If you're making the switch to science of reading based practices, then you'll want to try these phoneme grapheme mapping resources! Understanding the role of orthographic mapping is a good place to start. We want to train our students to form a mental habit in decoding and encoding words, and these orthographic mapping mats and templates provide a bit of fun to the process! These phoneme grapheme mapping worksheets encourage students to think about the SOUNDS in words first, and THEN attach s

Looking for worksheets to practice handwriting? Young students need LOTS of practice with accurate letter formation. Use this set of supports and worksheets to practice handwriting the lowercase letters.This resource includes embedded mnemonic pictures support, in which a key word forms the SHAPE of the letter. Research has proven that embedded picture alphabets are more effective than letters with an accompanying stand-alone image. Plus, it is recommended to teach letter formation and le

Upper and lowercase letter tracing cards are perfect to have on hand throughout the entire school year! Teaching letter formation can be tricky for some students, so having uppercase and lowercase letters tracing opportunities ready to print and go always come in handy! Did you know that research says that multi sensory activities can teach students to associate letters with sounds faster? Using these alphabet tracing printable cards is the perfect way to create your own textured letters. As s

Make segmenting and blending CVC words irresistible to students by simply adding fidget poppers to these phoneme grapheme boxes! Fidget poppers are quickly becoming one of the elementary classroom’s most versatile teaching tool- why not use it to boost phonemic awareness skills while learning CVC words?! These CVC phonemic awareness task cards are perfect for kindergarten or first grade students to use within literacy centers, as a warm-up to guided reading or small literacy group sessions, or f

Boost your students’ phonemic awareness skills with "pop-ular" fidget poppers! These fidget popper worksheets are the perfect way to practice phoneme segmentation, while also indulging students with some fun pop it activities! Students say and segment words into sounds by popping or tapping the paper, and then circling the total number of sounds. This resource is perfect for kindergarten, first grade and second grade students that are either just being introduced to segmenting phonemes or requ

Looking for phoneme segmentation activities as a way to boost your students’ phonemic awareness skills? Research shows that phonological awareness plays a major role in future reading success, and segmentation activities play a crucial part in laying a firm foundation. Segmenting phonemes becomes easy and automatic with this simple routine! Tired of students asking, "how do I spell this word?" Use these digital slides to introduce a segmenting and blending routine that becomes a scaffold fo

Create your dream neutral classroom AND stop vowel confusion using this neutral posters pack for long and short vowel sounds! These sets of vowel charts can easily be incorporated into your neutral classroom decor or farmhouse classroom theme- especially useful for incorporating into some type of sound wall! The vowel anchor charts for long and short vowel sounds are meant to guide your teaching. Develop a multi-sensory approach with students using visual and kinesthetic anchors on these vowe

Students' struggles with learning and retaining vowels STOPS HERE! Use these vowel anchor charts for long and short vowel sounds to guide your teaching. Develop a multi-sensory approach with students using visual and kinesthetic anchors on these vowel anchor charts and watch the learning of short and long vowel sounds soar! Did you know that speaking is natural, but learning to read is not? We start our students’ reading journey with hearing the sound structure within words. Then, we connect

The struggle with learning and retaining vowel sounds STOPS HERE. It starts with having the right tools and anchors to make those vowel speech sounds stick from the start! Begin with these vowel anchor charts, starting with vowel sounds for a. What's Included:*Short vowels anchor chart *Individual charts for the vowel sounds of a *Articulation guides for the teacher, meant to guide in the teaching of forming the speech sound, which will allow students to discriminate between other vowel soun