Phonics manipulatives

Got a Lego® lover at home like I do? A few years ago, while perusing an edition of Family Fun Magazine, I came upon an article about using Legos® or other building bricks to encourage creative writing. The picture showed dozens of bricks with handwritten words on them. These words were rearranged and stacked together to make silly sentences and short stories. At the time, I didn't have a writer, BUT I did have a preschooler learning to decode letters. I logically reasoned that if you could…

Enhance your students' literacy skills with phonics manipulatives and reading tools! This blog post is packed with engaging reading tools to support phonological awareness for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade learners. Discover the benefits of using literacy manipulatives and help your students develop strong reading skills in kindergarten, first, and second grade.

Using science of reading manipulatives can bring a big boost to your teaching and to students and their learning. It can help take the abstract and help make it more concrete and physical, especially for

Phonics Activities Your Kids Will Love: Fun Phonics Games to play over and over! Great to use with your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and even 5th grade classroom or homeschool students. {K, first, second, third, fourth, fifth graders}

Here are some of the best manipulatives for phonological and phonemic awareness instruction along with some activity ideas.

How often is your child or student building words each week? Phonics, word building and spelling practice are all essential components of building readers and writers. As children get older we seem to become more relaxed about their phonics practice, but they really should have a regular systematic routine through 5th grade. In my classroom we play a lot of phonics games which require reading and then we like to build the words from the phonics games. This taps into multiple learning styles…

Curious about what kindergarten phonics manipulatives are best? Click the pin to learn all about my favorite phonics manipulatives and ideas on how to use them during your phonics lesson.

If you’re looking for some hands-on ways to practice spelling, this post is full of ideas! Combine learning with play.

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