Phonics Activities

Using cut pool noodles and a small PVC pipe, the teacher can create a hands-on tool for the students to practice consonant-vowel-consonant words or words with beginning and ending blends. The students will spin the pool noodle to practice blending different words.

This activity can be differentiated to meet a variety a needs. Students can work on skills such a sorting words by beginning sound, middle sound, or ending sound. They can also sort words by word family, blends, or vowel type. This activity can target a variety of phonics skills. To promote digital literacy, the teacher can provide sorting and matching activites in an online or digital format.

This activity can be designed to target any phonics skill. At a basic level, the student rolls the dice and then reads the word that corresponds with the number he rolled. He will then draw a picture to match the word. To target different needs, the student might read a sentence and then draw a picture, or write a sentence based on a drawing.