3rd grade phonics

Do 3rd graders need phonics? What does phonics in 3rd grade look like? Get answers to those questions and ideas for getting started in this post.

Finding out what a student knows about phonics is made easy with this quick and simple phonics assessment for K-3 readers! And it's FREE.

When you have students who are in upper elementary classrooms reading several years below grade level, your phonics instruction needs to b...

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Grab a copy of our FREE Upper Grade Phonics Assessment {for grades 3-5} with 15 different phonics skills you can use to assess your learners.

Orthographic mapping with sight words. It sounds like such a technical and confusing idea, right? I know it was the first time I saw the term. But after close study, I’ve come to see that it isn’t as complicated or intimidating as I first thought. And I’d actually been doing it with my struggling readers for ... Read More about Orthographic Mapping with Sight Words {How to}

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

Exploring Affixes: Write the affix down. Give an example of a basic word with that affix. Eg. DIS - Dislike. As a class, figure out what it may mean and write down the definition. Students brainstorm examples of other words with those affixes and use dictionaries to see if there is a common meaning for the affix.

These long a decoding activities are perfect for students learning to read and write words with the long a phonics pattern. Each decodable includes words, nonsense words, sentences, and a short story.