by Jaymie Genovese | Oct 2, 2023 | Phonics, reading
Activities for Teaching Two Syllable Words with a Closed Syllable Are you looking to help your students learn how to decode two syllable words? In this blog post, I’m sharing four teaching activities for reading and dividing words with two syllables. I’ll...
by Jaymie Genovese | Jun 21, 2023 | back to school, centers, Phonics
CVC word activities are the perfect way to jumpstart your first-grader’s reading skills! These 3-letter words with a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern and a short vowel sound are essential for early reading success. Today, I’m sharing 8 hands-on games and...
by Jaymie Genovese | Aug 12, 2022 | Phonics
Types of Sorts One of my favorite ways to teach phonics skills is through word sorting activities. Today, I am sharing three different types of sorting activities and how they help our first graders increase their decoding skills. I’ll also share easy ways to...
by Jaymie Genovese | Aug 11, 2022 | back to school, Phonics
Why Use Decodable Reading Passages? We know that students need explicit instruction in the essential components of reading including phonics, phonological awareness, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Decodable reading passages are a great way to teach...
by Jaymie Genovese | Jun 12, 2017 | Phonics
Teaching Beginning Consonant Blends After your students have learned to read short vowel words, it is time to work on beginning blends. Most beginning blends fall into one of three categories: l blends, r blends, and s blends. Work on one type of blends at a time. I...
by Jaymie Genovese | Jul 18, 2014 | centers, Phonics
This is one of my students favorite centers. I had all of these old boxes of cards (I think 4 of them) laying around and I wasn’t sure what to do with them. I hadn’t really been using them. So I decided to use them to create a...
