Free Sound-Spelling Cards

 

Do you have our Sound-Spelling Poster resource? Watch this video for a sound-spelling refresher. 

You might have other sound-spellings that you’re teaching and want a poster to accompany you. Here is an editable card page for you to add the sound-spellings you might need in addition to what we’ve provided. Here you go! 

Remember, explicitly teaching the sound-spellings of our language is highly effective. It leads to being able to blend and decode words. Our language is wholly decodable. 

Remember, KEEP ONE SOUND with IT’S SPELLING on a card/poster. Think… SOUND-SPELLING, not sounds-spelling. 

One question we get often is how to teach consonant blends. Refer to our helpful video – you can jump to 5:15. 

Happy NEW YEAR, we hope you enjoy and use this free resource!

Phonics Lessons for Reading A-Z Grade K Decodable Books

 

These explicit phonics lessons are written for Reading A-Z's Grade K decodable books from their major update in 2020. Do you already have our old Reading A-Z lessons?* If so, for a limited time, we have this new file on sale. We've updated the lessons, added a could great new things - including SIGHT WORD CARDS! 

Although these decodable books are listed under Grade K according to Reading A-Z, these lessons and decodable books make for fabulous phonics lessons in GRADES K-2 TIER I, TIER II, and TIER III levels of phonics instruction. They would also make for great lessons and text for phonics interventions in grades 3 and beyond. We suggest to align the lessons with your current sound-spelling scope and sequence provided by your district or core reading program. 

Note: This download INCLUDES LESSONS and DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DECODABLE TEXT, as those are found at Reading A-Z.  There is a free trial that allows you to download a limited number of books, check it out! Many principals are more than willing to buy schools or your classroom a subscription as well. It never hurts to ask! 

Included in this download:

• A Scope and Sequence of Reading A-Z's Grade K decodable books
• Lots of teacher helps, PD, and tips!
• 33 CVC Lesson Cards (short a, e, i, o, u, and short vowel mix)
• 3 Consonant Blend Lesson Cards (s, r, l blends)
• 4 vCe Lesson Cards ( a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e)
• 5 Consonant Digraph Lesson Cards (sh, ch, wh, th, ph)
• Printable Sight Words Cards for ALL 45 Lessons - NEW!!
• File folder labels for each lesson - Formatted to print on Avery File Folder Labels
• Links to helpful Youtube Videos from us!

*Many of these lessons are an update from our older download of the old Reading A-Z scope and sequence. However, we've added a couple new things to the lesson cards, have provided sight word cards, updated the new text numbers to align with Reading A-Z, added the new lessons, etc.... See our old download, but it is out of date. Reading A-Z made quite the change in their K, 1, 2 decodable books and text! We are excited for the many new books & text they have over their K-2 scope and sequence. 

STAY TUNED FOR GRADE 1 & 2 Phonics Lessons for Reading A-Z Decodable Books and Text

VIEW THE FULL PREVIEW

Teacher Center: Explicit Phonics Lesson

Welcome to another video of our Series: Teacher Center!

In these videos we use metacognition at its best! 

In today's "Teacher Center" video, we will be watching Whitney teach an Explicit Phonics lesson. Enjoy!

We provide 5 things for you in our new Teacher Center videos:
1) Watch good teaching
2) Discuss what is being done/seen
3) Hear about the choices made when the lesson was planned
4) Hear about the choices made during the teaching
5) Discuss what ideas could be improved upon in the future or in different circumstances.

What a great way to learn from each other!  We hope you will share in our learning and be metacognitive with us about teaching!

Thank you Whitney for letting us into your classroom.
We are blessed to see you teach!

Resources Mentioned in the Video...

🔗 ch/tch Lesson in the Video

🔗 Phonics Lessons and Resources

🔗 Multisyllabic Word Reading

How to Teach Closed and Open Syllables!

Maybe you struggle teaching open and closed syllables. Or maybe you just need a simpler way to teach closed and open syllables. Today we share with you how to teach this important reading skill to give readers the tools to be a great reader! Like and share this video on social media or save this video to your "watch later" option on YouTube so you can go back to refer to the video when needed. Enjoy!

If you missed our video about WHAT the Sound-Spelling patterns are and

WHY we teach them, check out this video...

Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns is an effective way to teach the connection of the sounds and the spellings to children while learning to read.  This relationship between the sounds and the spellings of language is also called decoding.  Decoding our language is critical to being an adept reader.  Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns and teaching them explicitly in a clear scope and sequence is recommended.  You can follow our pattern or break this up to follow your Core Reading Program's scope and sequence.

In our Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets, we include the spelling patterns:

short vowels in cvc  consonants and blends  soft c and g  silent and double consonants  schwa  digraphs and trigraph  r-controlled vowels  long vowels: final silent e (vce)  long vowels: vowel teams  other long vowels  closed syllables  open syllables  variant vowels consonant-le

Sound-Spelling Patterns 

Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets
Reading A to Z Phonics Lessons Bundle

How to Plan a Multisyllabic Word Phonics Lesson

Welcome to this week's Thursday video! In this video we go through the thinking process of how to plan a multisyllabic word reading phonics lesson so you can write them with any text your mid 2 to upper grade students will be reading. We walk you through the thinking of choosing the words to use when you prepare for multisyllabic word reading strategy instruction lessons.

Remember, these lessons could be used for a variety of text reading purposes to support their reading. For example: prior to reading a main selection, prior to math problems, prior to social studies learning, prior to science... the list goes on and on!

VIDEO What & Why of Multisyllabic Word Reading Instruction
VIDEO How to Teach Multisyllabic Word Reading Strategy
VIDEOS Sound-Spelling Videos
Let's Read Multisyllabic Words resource
Free weekly planning guide
Phonics Lessons and Decodable Text
Digital Phonics Lessons
Other Phonics Videos (YouTube playlist - we have other multisyllabic word reading videos!)

How to Plan a Phonics Lesson for K,1, or 2

Did you know we post two videos a week?! Every TUESDAY and THURSDAY!

The videos this week will be all about PLANNING! Today's video is about planning a phonics lesson for K,1,2. Thursday's video will be all about planning a multisyllabic word reading strategy phonics lesson for mid 2 - 6. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss any video. Be the first to view the video by checking your subscriptions on the YouTube app or on your computer. Share these videos with your team and school - let's help each other teach our kids how to read!

In this video we go through the step-by-step process of how to plan a phonics lesson so you can write them with any decodable text. We walk you through the thinking of choosing the words to use when you write an effective phonics lesson using our free sample of a cvc text we have written.

Free text sample of a CVC lesson 
Free lesson card for you to do your own planning
Free weekly planning guide
Phonics Lessons and Decodable Text
Digital Phonics Lessons
Other Phonics Videos

How to Teach Phonics to K, 1, 2

We are always asked to model phonics lessons, so here you go!  In this video we teach a mixed vowel CVC phonics lesson using one of our explicit lessons (see links below).  We take you through the steps of the lesson and provide you with some of the thinking and prompts along the way.  Enjoy this teaching demonstration by Angie and Whitney!

Download our Phonics Resources:
FREE Mixed Vowel CVC Text and Lesson
FREE Phonics Lesson Card
Sound-Spelling Patterns
Digital Phonics with Decodable Text and Lessons! 
Decodable Texts and Lessons


If you missed our How to Plan a Week of Phonics, check out this video and previous post here...

How to Teach Silent and Double Consonants!

Watch our YouTube video to see our tips and trick of teaching silent and double consonants! You'll want to watch clear to the end... Angie shares her favorite way to teach students how to read words. You don't want to miss the blending strategy!

If you missed our video about WHAT are the Sound-Spelling patterns and WHY we teach them, check out the video.

Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns is an effective way to teach the connection of the sounds and the spellings to children while learning to read.  This relationship between the sounds and the spellings of language is also called decoding.  Decoding our language is critical to being an adept reader.  Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns and teaching them explicitly in a clear scope and sequence is recommended.  You can follow our pattern or break this up to follow your Core Reading Program's scope and sequence.

In our Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets, we include the spelling patterns:

short vowels in cvc  consonants and blends  soft c and g  silent and double consonants  schwa  digraphs and trigraph  r-controlled vowels  long vowels: final silent e (vce)  long vowels: vowel teams  other long vowels  closed syllables  open syllables  variant vowels consonant-le

Sound-Spelling Patterns 

Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets
Reading A to Z Phonics Lessons Bundle

How to Teach Soft C and G!

We have some awesome BLENDING TIPS for you in our Soft C and G video today!

If you missed our video about WHAT are the Sound-Spelling patterns and WHY we teach them, check out the video.

Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns is an effective way to teach the connection of the sounds and the spellings to children while learning to read.  This relationship between the sounds and the spellings of language is also called decoding.  Decoding our language is critical to being an adept reader.  Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns and teaching them explicitly in a clear scope and sequence is recommended.  You can follow our pattern or break this up to follow your Core Reading Program's scope and sequence.

In our Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets, we include the spelling patterns:

short vowels in cvc  consonants and blends  soft c and g  silent and double consonants  schwa  digraphs and trigraph  r-controlled vowels  long vowels: final silent e (vce)  long vowels: vowel teams  other long vowels  closed syllables  open syllables  variant vowels consonant-le

Sound-Spelling Patterns 

Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets
Reading A to Z Phonics Lessons Bundle

How to Plan a Week of Phonics Instruction

In today's video we walk you through how we plan a week of phonics instruction.  We discuss how to work with your program to follow the spelling patterns so you align to the assessments while providing effective, research-based phonics instruction.

Some Phonics FREEBIES for you!

Weekly Planning Template

Binder Labels for Phonics Lessons

Mixed Vowel CVC Lesson

Phonics Lesson Card

Sample of our Digital Phonics Lessons

What is Phonics and Why do we Teach It?

Hopefully today's video revive you for effectively teaching phonics in your classroom. We go through a few of the most common questions of phonics. This video will remind you of the importance of teaching explicit phonics instruction everyday - in every grade! Enjoy!

How to Teach Consonant Spellings

Today's Video is all about how to effectively teach consonant spellings!

If you missed our video about WHAT are the Sound-Spelling patterns and WHY we teach them, check out the video.

Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns is an effective way to teach the connection of the sounds and the spellings to children while learning to read.  This relationship between the sounds and the spellings of language is also called decoding.  Decoding our language is critical to being an adept reader.  Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns and teaching them explicitly in a clear scope and sequence is recommended.  You can follow our pattern or break this up to follow your Core Reading Program's scope and sequence.

In our Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets, we include the spelling patterns:

short vowels in cvc  consonants and blends  soft c and g  silent and double consonants  schwa  digraphs and trigraph  r-controlled vowels  long vowels: final silent e (vce)  long vowels: vowel teams  other long vowels  closed syllables  open syllables  variant vowels consonant-le

Sound-Spelling Patterns 

Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets
Reading A to Z Phonics Lessons Bundle

How to Teach Short Vowel CVC

Today's Video is all about how to effectively teach short vowels CVC!

If you missed our video about WHAT are the Sound-Spelling patterns and WHY we teach them, check out the video.

Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns is an effective way to teach the connection of the sounds and the spellings to children while learning to read.  This relationship between the sounds and the spellings of language is also called decoding.  Decoding our language is critical to being an adept reader.  Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns and teaching them explicitly in a clear scope and sequence is recommended.  You can follow our pattern or break this up to follow your Core Reading Program's scope and sequence.

In our Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets, we include the spelling patterns:

short vowels in cvc  consonants and blends  soft c and g  silent and double consonants  schwa  digraphs and trigraph  r-controlled vowels  long vowels: final silent e (vce)  long vowels: vowel teams  other long vowels  closed syllables  open syllables  variant vowels consonant-le

Sound-Spelling Patterns 

Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets
Reading A to Z Phonics Lessons Bundle

What and Why of Sound-Spelling Patterns

Today's video is all about the English language! 

What are sound-spelling patterns and why do we teach them?

The English language is a phonetically based language.  It includes many words (50% wholly decodable and additional 37% within one sound) that are decodable.  That is great news for those of us teaching kids to learn to read!  This means we have a fairly reliable code we can teach them to use.  This code is made up of spellings that link to sounds and these blend together to form the words in our language.  We call the key to this code sound-spelling patterns.  We as teachers must teach these sound-spelling patterns to our students, and teach them to be flexible in their use of those sound-spelling patterns (to account for the "within one sound" parts).

We cover more information about what and why we need to teach these sound-spelling patterns in our classrooms, yes, even upper grades!  Big words are all made of sound-spelling patterns too!

We have an awesome resource for you to help you teach the sound-spelling patterns. 

Check it out HERE!

We also have a Sound-Spelling Patterns FREE Document 

How to Use Our Digital Phonics Lessons

Our Digital Phonics Lessons will be a great addition to your daily teaching routine. 

We have beginner phonics lessons ready for K, 1, or intervention in 2nd!

View our entire scope and sequence HERE!  

Currently, we have "beginner" digital phonics lessons ready for:

• FREE Sample (1 lesson from short a)
• Short a cvc (5 lessons)
• Short e cvc (5 lessons)
• Short i cvc (5 lessons)
• Short o cvc (5 lessons)
• Short u cvc (5 lessons)
• Mixed Vowel cvc (5 lessons)
• Consonant Blends with short vowels (10 lessons)

What grades are our "beginner" phonics lessons for?

Whether you teach Kindergarten, First grade or need these beginner lessons for Intervention in Second grade, these lessons can help save you time and effort and keep your students engaged in their learning!

What will you receive in the download of the digital phonics lessons?

In each download, you'll received a PDF with the lessons, student text, and dictation sheet. In the PDF you purchase, you will be given a link to the digital lessons through Google Slides. You can run the digital lessons through your computer or any device that can download Google Slides app! Don't forget to watch our video to see how they work!  If technology goes down, have no fear! You can use the printable lesson card and student text to teach any lesson without technology.

We have taken the time to include all the important components of an effective phonics lesson in every lesson with some animations and cool features:

1. phonemic awareness warm-up
2. sound-spelling review
3. blending words
4. sight word review
5. text reading
6. word work through dictation

These beginning lessons start with the most basic sound-spelling patterns, short vowels, and build until all the vowels have been taught.  We then add consonant blends, giving more blending practice with larger words and mixed short vowels. 

These lessons give you engaging and motivating classroom practice in all of the components of the lessons, ending with the most important thing, text reading!

Download our FREE sample today to check it out!

Don't forget to watch the video so you don't miss a beat when you download the files!  A review of the sound-spelling patterns might be useful also, we have a resource for those, too.

Freebie! Phonics Lesson Card

This is our free and blank Phonics Lesson Card.  It provides you with all the steps of the simple effective phonics lesson, ready for you to write your own lesson!  You can use this blank card to write the lesson for the decodable texts you have in your own classroom for your phonics lessons.

You'll want to make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube because we have a video coming out soon that will walk you through how to plan a phonics lesson using this card. Coming Soon!

Click here for the free card!

What, Why, and When of Beginner Phonics Lessons

New YouTube Video!

Throughout the early grades there are a few major components that are critical when learning to read: phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, and text reading. When these components are linked together, taught explicitly, applied to word blending and text reading, they create powerful weapons in the fight against illiteracy! In this short video, we discuss the importance of these components in the early grades, and provide some understanding that is necessary for explicit phonics instruction to young children.

Zeno Words
Phonics Resources

Sound-Spelling Cards and Posters!

In our sound-spellings download you will receive:

• A master list of all the sound-spellings
• Reference lists for each sound-spelling with sound pictures, spelling, and word examples
• Posters for each sound spelling! Headings included!

These posters provide a visual of all the sound-spelling patterns along with the teacher talk to teach them. The teacher talk is found in the teacher card which could also be used as a student reference sheet. We have also provided you with a colorful poster for your students to look at as a reminder of the sound each spelling makes.

This is great for whole class teaching of your phonics scope and sequence as well as intervention group instruction.  Hang them on your wall for reminders or print them for your intervention table as help for struggling students during targeted intervention.

Download the files HERE! 

Also, stay tuned for YouTube Videos to come about sound-spellings! Subscribe today, so you don't miss out :).

Sound-spelling patterns covered:

• short vowels in cvc 
• consonants and blends 
• soft c and g 
• silent and double consonants 
• schwa 
• digraphs and trigraph 
• r-controlled vowels 
• long vowels: final silent e (vce) 
• long vowels: vowel teams 
• other long vowels 
• closed syllables 
• open syllables 
• variant vowels
• consonant-le

How to Use the Reading Components in Your Classroom

Watch our YouTube video as we explain how to use the reading components in your classroom (k-6)! Our video and informational FREEBIE gives you an overview of: 

What each reading component is, 

How we can assess each component, and 

What effective instruction should include.

The reading components include oral language, print awareness, letter knowledge, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. We hope this video and download will help clarify these very important aspects of literacy and will help you include each of them in your daily teaching.

Reading Components Handout
Fluency Resources 
Comprehension Resources
Phonics Resources 

FREEBIE! Binder Labels for Phonics

Do you need help organizing your phonics resources? I (Whitney) organize my resources in two ways. 

1. FILE FOLDERS. 

I use hanging file folders that align to my reading program that are organized by unit and week. The file folders contain my reading program's lessons and text for the week.

2. PHONICS BINDERS. 

I love organizing supplemental phonics lessons and decodable text in binders. This allows me to pull other text when needed for Tier I and/or Tier II instruction. Because they are organized by the sound-spellings, it makes it easier to find what I need rather than having to remember what unit/week it was taught.

In my binders I keep any old reading program phonics lessons and decodable text I have saved, lessons and passages Angie and I have written, or any other decodable text resource I can find. Reading A-Z is a favorite.

I cleaned and reorganized my binders this past year, so I thought I would share my labels. Enjoy!

Click here to download!

 Examples of Binder Spine Labels for 1" and 2" or Larger Binders 

Example of Binder Cover Label

Included Phonics Sound-Spellings labels for the spines and covers:

Short Vowel CVC
Short a CVC
Short e CVC
Short i CVC
Short o CVC
Short u CVC
Consonant Blends
Consonant Digraphs
R-Control
vCe
Long Vowels
Variant Vowels
Low Frequency