Phonics Strategies and Ideas

Phonics: Classroom Practice

Much of our phonics instruction comes from our daily practice. Most of the activities are embedded into PLAY. Apart from some direct full class and small group lessons (including guided reading lessons), most of our phonics practice takes place through game boards, sorting, word building and creative writing.

 

PHONICS BOARD GAMES

The easiest to prep, and a big class favorite through the whole year is phonics game boards.

It’s easy to rotate them through literacy center choices, or pull one out when we are studying a specific pattern. I always have a written recording component to add some writing practice as well.

SORTING CENTERS

My students love to sort, and it’s such a great brain building activity. The pieces below are from a set of posters that contain 70 different spelling patterns and they complement the game boards above perfectly. Another weekly literacy center taken care of quickly!