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The goal for my Kindergartner this year: to master CVC words. I want him to nail those short vowel sounds with his eyes closed. We spend a lot of our school time working on this very task, using a variety of methods. We follow our Kindergarten phonics curriculum very consistently and I provide a variety …
Color by number and color by code worksheets are such a nice change of pace from traditional worksheets. When my children are in the elementary years, I try to provide a steady diet of different methods of learning and practice. This set of color by code worksheets will be just the right fit for your …
These Stamp and Write Short Vowel CVC Booklets were originally published 9 years ago in 2014! I gave them an overhaul with fresh graphics and fonts, so please re-download this packet if you have purchased it in the past! I left the original content and pictures of the beginning of this post intact: My girls …
Here in North Carolina, we seem to be taking a break from winter, as our high temperatures have been 65-70 the past few days! North Carolina is like that, however. One week it is 70 degrees, and the next week our pipes are trying to freeze. Go figure. If it still feels like winter in …
My 5 year old is a very beginning reader. He’s still working on nailing down all of the letter sounds and I noticed that he also needs some work with rhyming. Two of my three girls were later readers and one glaring similarity with both of them was their inability to rhyme well (or at all). …
Beginning readers need intense phonics practice in a variety of methods. In my experience, young readers cannot get too much phonics instruction, and I say that as a homeschool mom with a variety of types of learners. Phonics and Latin and math facts are all similar in that way. They cannot be overtaught or over practiced. …
Beginning and intermediate readers need a multitude of ways to practice phonics. Give your young ones a nice change of pace with this set of Short Vowel CVC Word Search worksheets! My oldest and youngest daughters loved word searches when they were early readers. Even though they both took a bit longer to read fluently, …
My girls each needed quite a bit of phonics practice when they were early readers. In fact, two of my girls needed explicit phonics instruction and practice all the way through 4th grade. I found that phonics lessons in the early years need to be short, plentiful, and most of all consistent. I, however, encountered …
In my 12+ years of homeschooling, I have found that you can’t practice phonics, grammar, Latin, or math facts too often. Add some extra phonics practice to your child’s lessons this week with the phonics sorting activity! ETA April 2022: Note that this post was originally published in May 2013. I have updated it with …
Phonics is a subject that cannot be repeated enough in the early grades. Phonics forms the basis of figuring out how words are put together and why they are formed in the way they are. I have a variety of phonics activities for my young readers – hands-on activities, traditional worksheets, our spelling tiles, and more. …
For years and years, All About Reading and All About Spelling were curriculum staples here at the Hill House. This phonics curriculum is extremely homeschool mom-friendly, and the preparation time is streamlined. All About Spelling and All About Reading both helped me as the homeschool teacher learn how to teach my children to phonics, which of …
