An overview of some activities that can be remixed to allow students to practice this skill in a digital format.

Phonics

Directions: Students write as many words as they can

Write as many words as you can for each word family

Teacher Tip By looking at the moved letters, you can notice • phoneme-to-grapheme relationships • decoding and encoding CVC words

Directions: Students move letters to practice blending and spelling words

Teacher Tip By looking at the letters collected, you can notice • phoneme-to-grapheme relationships • common mistakes students make in letter shapes

Directions: Students write or type the letters to build the word

Type or write the letters to spell the word

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Directions: Students color each syllable a different color. The first row is completed as an example.

rainbow

sunshine

baseball

table

napkin

cactus

probably

exercise

department

education

discovery

emergency

Directions: Students highlight the lowercase b and d separate colors

Identifying b vs. d

I made my bed with my dad.

He read me a book about a big, bad wolf.

The big, bad wolf blew the little house down.

Directions: Students move the letter tiles to spell the word and find an image

Drag the letters at the bottom to create an ai/ay word, then find an image to illustrate the word

Directions: Students find an image, write in the missing letter, and record saying the word aloud

Phonics provides the explicit connection between individual sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes) and an understanding of the alphabetic principle, the predictable and systematic relationships that can be used to recognize, read, and spell words. Phonics is especially important for beginning readers and English language learners.&nbsp;

The National Reading Panel identified 5 critical components, or pillars, that must be mastered in order to become fluent in literacy.

Effective literacy instruction draws not only on these five pillars but also must be accessible and motivating to students. Book Creator is the perfect tool to empower and engage students with activities designed to develop these five competencies.

Directions: Students sort words by the location of the phonics pattern

Drag the words at the bottom in to the correct columns

Directions: Students sort words by their phonics patterns

Sort the words at the bottom in to the correct columns

The following pages contain exercises and page templates relating to Phonics for you to use with your students.

Match the uppercase &amp; lowercase letters

Directions: Students use the pen tool to match uppercase to lowercase letters

A 														 B	 												 C	 													 D	 														 E

c e 																								 d	 	 b	 a

Ruled paper

Directions: Students highlight the vowel in each word

Find the vowels

cat bin run wet pod man bed top hug

Teacher Tip: Although there are 4 sounds, there are 5 letters - this is a great task for vowel teams or practicing phonics patterns

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The Science of Reading is the researched best-practices in explicitly teaching students how to read and write. This template gives some examples that can be created using Book Creator that align to the National Reading Panel's 5 Pillars of Effective Reading Instruction.

Our 5 Pillars series includes a book for each of the pillars, in which we share examples of ways that digital book creation can support each foundational skill. Through the use of multimedia, student tasks become living documents, and not just one-and-done activities. While these books are designed to provide ideas and examples, if you would like to make use of one of the examples in your classroom, Remix this book.

Narrow ruled paper

Teacher Tip: Students complete digital spelling tests and must highlight the phonics patterns in a different color. This helps identify areas of remediation or enrichment.

<ol><li>shouts</li><li>clowning</li><li>frowned</li><li>cloud</li><li>loudly</li><li>plowed</li></ol>

Phonics is more than spelling

Depending on the resource, some experts state that there are 44-46 phonemes and 1200-2000+ spelling combinations in the English language.