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Back-to-School Bundle to Support Your Phonics Routines
We’ve got your school year covered! Print, favorite, and use the following free resources to support your daily phonics routines.
A Guide to Teaching Letters and Sounds (opens in new window)
For each sound-letter correspondence, students should learn the phoneme, grapheme, how to make the sound, a keyword, and letter formation.
Word Recognition Scope and Sequence (opens in new window)
This Reading Universe continuum displays the phonological awareness and phonics skills that students need to master in order to become confident and fluent readers.
Vowel Valley (opens in new window)
The vowel valley provides a concrete visual to help readers hear and articulate the vowel sounds. Use this resource to guide students in vowel pronunciation.
Six Syllable Types (opens in new window)
Use this printable to remember the six syllable types you'll teach during phonics instruction. It includes explanations and examples for closed, open, magic 'e', r-controlled, vowel teams, and consonant '-le' syllables.
Phonics Lesson Checklist (opens in new window)
What should a 30-minute phonics block look like? Here's a proposed structured literacy checklist that can be used to establish routines to support any curriculum.
Lesson Checklist for Introducing a New Sound-Letter Correspondence (opens in new window)
This structured literacy checklist establishes a routine for introducing all sound-letter correspondences.
Lesson Plan Template (opens in new window)
A structured literacy lesson plan template for introducing a sound-letter correspondence or phonics skill which includes a proper warm-up, explicit instruction, and plenty of guided and independent practice.
Teacher Tip
Establishing routines is necessary for students to focus their attention on the learning instead of the activity.
Establishing routines is necessary for students to focus their attention on the learning instead of the activity.
Picture Cards for Instruction with Phonemes (opens in new window)
This collection of printable picture cards represents a selection of words for use in phonological awareness instruction. By using pictures instead of letters to represent words, children are able to focus on hearing the sounds in oral language.
Upper and Lower Case Letter Flash Cards with Keyword Pictures (opens in new window)
When students are first learning sound-letter correspondence, we use flash cards, each with an alphabet letter and corresponding keyword picture.
Closed Syllable Flash Cards (opens in new window)
This is a closed-syllable flash card deck. You can use these cards to support students as they practice reading this pattern.
Letter Formation Student Desk Chart (opens in new window)
Download this handy student desk chart – laminate a copy for every child in your class!
Recognizing and Forming Letters Wall Chart (opens in new window)
Use this chart for small group instruction or for classroom reference. You can even send copies home to families.
Chart Paper with Hat, Belt and Shoe (opens in new window)
This paper supports letter formation to orient students on where to start and end their letters based on the hat line, belt line, and shoe line.
Handwriting Tracing Mat
(opens in new window)Before students are instructed in forming letters, use this tracing paper to practice the straight and curvy shapes that are commonly used in writing.
Elkonin Sound Box Templates – Phoneme Segmentation
This multisensory activity helps to improve students' ability to segment words with three, four, and five phonemes.
Short Vowel Elkonin Boxes
Use this activity to help students practice separating the sounds in words with short vowels like jet, hill, and duck.
Roller Coaster Dictation Paper
Give students practice spelling the sounds and phonics patterns that they’ve been learning. The image of the roller coaster serves as a visual aid to help students segment sounds in words before they write.
Dictation Paper: Letter Sounds to Syllable Work
Use this paper to focus on spelling letter sounds, words, phrases, sentences, heart words, and syllable work during dictation.
Phrase and Sentence Dictation Paper
Use this paper to focus on spelling sounds, phrases, and sentences with phonics patterns during dictation.
Mac the Cat (opens in new window)
Use this decodable text to give students practice reading closed-syllable words with short 'a'.
Twins (opens in new window)
Use this decodable text to give students practice reading words with magic 'e' (also known as silent 'e').
Find all our 80+ decodable texts for each phonics skill
Skill Explainers to Start the Year
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