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Reading - Phonics and Fluency

typographical symbolsThese skills, based on educational standards, outline state requirements for your child’s learning program and what First Grade students across the state should be able to do in this subject.

For each Reading-Phonics and Fluency skill, we have listed several online activities that your child can explore themselves or that you and your child can do together.



Skill:

Use a knowledge of letter sounds to read new words

Activities:

  • Blending Bowl

    Football players crash together to make words!

  • The Hay Loft

    Hear the sounds and pick the word that matches.

  • Picture Hunt

    Can you read the words and find the pictures that match?

  • cvc Pop

    Pop the bubbles that have the right word on them. Watch out for the UFOs!

Skill:

More letter and word fun!

Activities:

  • Chunk that Word!

    Sing the song then practice chunking words you might not know.

  • Consonant Caper

    Can you find all the words that start with the letter m?

  • Word Family Sort

    Sort the words into their correct word families!

  • Phonics

    Find the matching word to get the apples. But watch out, you might get a worm instead!

Skill:

Spell new words in their writing using letter sounds

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Use a knowledge of smaller words to understand compound words and contractions in books and their writing

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Alphabetize words to the first letter

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Create rhyming words

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Identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds in short words

Activities:

  • Letter Lifter

    Type the beginning letter and watch the object lift off.

  • Construct-a-Word

    Pick an ending and see how many words you can construct!

  • Chain Game

    Can you pick the letters to make words that form a chain?

  • Fishing with Phonics

    Help Garfield fish by matching the objects to ending sounds.

 
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