Phonics Phones

Phonics phones serve as devices for students to hear themselves as they read and speak.  Students are able to focus on sounds and speak softly.  Phonics phones can enhance reading skills like fluency.

My students really enjoy using phonics phones.  They have the opportunity to listen closely to letter sounds, word  beginnings and endings and pronunciation.

We use phonics phone in our centers.  We read the room, read a book or talk to a friend with a phonics phone.

 

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Sight Word Activities for Emergent Readers

High frequency or sight words appear often in text and are words that are useful to emergent readers. Knowing words that appear over and over help students to become fluent readers and writers.  These words can eventually be used to build new words.  

Help students with known or almost known sight words by focusing on featured sight words in charts, text and Fluency Sentence Strips.

               

Fluency Sentence Strips.

 

Literacy centers, or games like Bingo, that draw emergent readers to words are helpful in the beginning stages of  literacy learning.

Emergent books build confidence in early readers.  Students will be able to read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.  

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