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Phonics Game for Kids

Teaching kids how to read can be intimidating for first-time teachers. Yet, if you’re a veteran teacher, it can be stressful keeping the kids from getting bored. That’s why our Phonics Game for Kids are great for newbies and veteran teachers! HINT: Pair this with our Interactive Reading Program for extra Practice

If you have a child who is learning basic phonic skills, a struggling reader, or is ready for early reading skills, keep reading! With our DIY Phonics Game for Kids that are hands on, your kids will learn new digraphs or trigraphs in no time. Plus, it will keep the kids busy for hours while learning!

How Does a DIY Phonics Game Work

Wondering how our easy and creative language arts game work? Children simply match up letter blocks to word-ending blocks to create new words.  Keeping score for each assembled word makes this a fun and engaging activity for multiple children.

Word Family Game

Print this free Roll-a-Word score card to use with your word family blocks. There is room for four players to write in the words they make with each turn. The goal is to hit 15 words to win!

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Phonics Game Materials

DIY Phonics Game Instructions

  1. Determine what word families you want to use for your DIY Phonics Game in the phonics game printable. Count your blocks and lay them out to prepare for painting. Keep the correct amount of blocks paint free to use for the beginning sounds.

2. Paint several sides of multiple blocks with your choice of color. As you switch sides, make sure to let it air dry before beginning a new one.

3. When all blocks are dry, using a black sharpie, write your two letter or three letter endings using the phonics word family printables.

4. Write your beginning letters as well on the paint free blocks.

4. Print out Roll A Word Printable and prepare for having a fun game with up to 4 players!

5. First player rolls 3 beginning sound blocks and 5 ending word family blocks.

6. Keep track of all words discovered with each player. For each word, player gets a point. The first player who fills their column with 15 words is declared the winner!

7. Have a great time with this game. Building blocks also build proficient readers!

Ready for more Word Family Fun? Try our 36-Week Interactive Reading Program for K-1!

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Reading Eggs Review

Reading Eggs is an online reading program for children ages 3-13. When you join Reading Eggs you get access to two different levels of their program, Learning to Read, and Reading to Learn:

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Reading Kingdom Review

The Reading Kingdom is an online subscription website that teaches children to read and write up to a third grade level. The program was developed by Dr. Marion Blank, and incorporates elements of phonics and whole language skills by introducing children to six different reading and writing skills:

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Poetry Notebooking Printables

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Happy Monday!
We’ve got another awesome freebie for our Subscribers!

Our Poetry Notebooking pack is just what you need to guide your children in the process of starting a poetry journal! We cover nine different forms of poetry:

Couplet
Triplet
Quatrain
Acrostic
Concrete
Haiku
Limerick
Cinquain
Diamante

For each type of poetry we’ve made these handy guides that provide children with the specific rules of form, an example, and a brainstorming exercise.

There are “Final Draft” notebooking pages as well so children can display all their creativity in a fun and colorful way.

If you’re looking for a fun unit to finish up your homeschool year, this may be just the thing!

 

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Writing Notebook Printables

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Oh, golly.

This is one of those posts that has been sitting in my “draft” box,
patiently waiting to be published.

It was meant for May.
(of 2011….so not too bad, but still)

Do you ever do that?
Get a post half finished then forget about it.
For months.

I do.
(obviously.)

However this time I think I lucked out,
because there is nothing Seasonal (i.e. Christmas in July)
about this post.

And it happens to be perfect timing for “Back to School”
so perhaps it was just meant to be.

I suppose I COULD delete this introduction and PRETEND that I planned it this way…..

But I guess what’s done is done, so without any further ado,
I present to you May’s post: TODAY~

writing notebook printables

Writing Notebook Printables:

I’ve been working (behind the scenes) on a writing notebook for Sissy.

Sissy is going into the 3rd grade this year, and writing is NOT her favorite subject.
(I’m sure she would say it a bit more eloquently, but you get the picture)

So to trick inspire my dear daughter into working on those NECESSARY
(and not something you’d want to cut from your school curriculum) skills, I came up with this Writing Notebook idea.

writting guide printables

And I know, I’m re-inventing the wheel here,
but sometimes having just the right method for just the right child
can work AMAZING miracles.

printable writing guides

The front of the notebook has a custom cover page,
(I made a boy or girl version you can snag too)

writing guide printable worksheets

The back of the notebook has an editing marks sheet for reference.

Please know that these might not be PERFECT printables.
There might be a spelling error.
The font is kinda funny and
my grammar might be incorrect.
(I’m sure the police will point that out to me shortly)

But they are what they are and I’ll be using them to inspire my little girl this year,
(I’ve got high hopes!)

Instructional Paper guide

So far I’ve uploaded a printable writing guide that will take children through the
steps needed to write an Instructional Paper.

And if you jump over to the main website, you might notice
quite a few more titles that I’ve got in the works.
(please read that to mean: Whenever I get a spare second)
(and please read Spare Second to mean: When pigs fly)

Oh the plans of a homeschooler…….