Insanely Easy Phonics Practice You'll Wish You Had Sooner

It's All About Phonics Practice Right?

If you teach primary grades you know it's all about phonics, phonics......and yes phonics! The #1 reason I love teaching 1st grade is the fact that I get to teach these babies how to read. A crucial life long skill is totally in my hands, and I don't take that lightly. I love teaching phonics!

Reading Small Group Time

My reading small groups take up a HUGE chunk of my day. I run 3 thirty minute (yes, I said 30 minute) groups every day. I don't teach phonics whole group at all. I save those precious minutes and divide them between my small groups so they get more time with me. If you are wondering how I can do this, well it's because I have proven to my administration that it works!! I'll have another post soon that goes more in depth about how I run those small groups.

Phonics Practice Pages

Today I want to share something that is going to make your life so much easier. When I am having these long small group sessions, my other students have to be doing something right? That's where these insanely easy phonics practice pages that you wish you had sooner come into play. 

How I Use The Practice Pages & Why You Should Too

Every student has a green phonics folder with pages inside that review the previous week's skill. This ensures they don't have to come ask me for help (and interrupt my group). Can I get an Amen?!?! We have already spent an entire week on the skill so they are good to go. Another thing that makes these pages so easy is that every skill follows the same types of phonics worksheet and phonics game practice.....color by sound, mazes, sentence writing, comprehension, dice and spinner games, etc. After the first few weeks students get the hang of it and know exactly what is expected of them. I put enough pages in their folder for them to work on the entire week and they just have to turn their folder in to me by Friday (if they do, they earn Fun Friday!) This allows them to be in control of what pages they chose to work on each day. 

Another Reason to Use These No Prep Pages For Phonics Practice

If you still need another reason as to why these are so insanely easy, well I have one more. They are so easy to differentiate. Some pages will have students only focusing on one vowel so you can use those pages for students that had a hard time with the skill the week before while some pages may include 2 or more vowels. Some pages use words while other use pictures. If the comprehension passage is too hard there are some pages with only sentences. Lots of different options to meet all of your needs!

Need an Online Option?

Also, as an added bonus I have included a Google Slides option for those of you teaching students online this year. If you would like to try some of these pages out I am offering a portion of the short vowel packet for free! Just click the picture to download it now!

If you like what you get, head over to my shop and get the full version. Already uploaded to TPT are the short and long vowel versions as well as initial blends

Challenge Your Students With Close Reading

And as always if you need something to challenge some of your students and want to try a close reading lesson with them, then subscribe to my newsletter to snag a free 5 day lesson along with an email series that goes more into depth on close reading and what a game changer it can be for your students comprehension!

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