Phonics+and+Phonemic+Awareness

Word Families **Objective** **Resources:** Letters, Sounds, and Word Families **Objective** **Resources:**
 * **Students will use knowledge of word families and rhyming to read words.**
 * [|Word Family Pinterest Board][[image:fantasy.gif align="right"]]
 * **Students will use knowledge of phonics and word families to read words.**
 * [|Word Family Pinterest Board]

Reading Words - What Are the Clues? **Objectives:** **Resources:**
 * **Students will use their knowledge of phonics and word 'chunks' to decode words. [[image:Word Work.png width="108" height="76" align="right"]]**
 * [|Phonics Resources Pinterest Board]
 * [|Phonics Livebinder]

Reading Roadway: **Resources:** __[|Using Roads to Teach]__
 * Objective: **
 * Students will learn basic concepts (letters, letter sounds, sight words) through dramatic play.

Vowel Hunt

**Objective:** Students will recite the five vowels.**Common Core Standard: **K.RFS.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills decoding words. **Resources:**
 * ** [|Words to Vowel Hunt] **
 * __Vowels Howl__ app on iTunes: Halloween vowel sound ghost story

Vowel Sort ** Objective: ** Students will recognize and sort letters that are vowels**Common Core Standard: ** K.RFS.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills decoding words. **Resources:** ** [|Valuable Vowel Pinboard] ** [|Free Rainbow Vowel Sorting Mat on Teachers Pay Teachers] **Infinitec Resources:** (each of these sites can be found by following: resources, reading, reading links, educational enrichment activities, early literacy supports)
 * Literacy Center - Early Childhood Reading []
 * Online games and printables targeting beginning literacy skills. Gain practice forming letters and spelling color words.
 * Between the Lions - []
 * A site full of printable, online games, and read aloud books for emergent readers. Fantastic resources for parents and teachers.
 * Get Ready to Read - []
 * The Get Ready to Read! program is a national initiative with the goal to enhance early literacy skills of preschoolers. The site offers screening tools/checklists, activities to download, and online games.
 * Clifford's Interactive Storybooks - Letter and Sound Matching Games []
 * Phonics games and stories for early readers starring Clifford the Big Red Dog.
 * Starfall - Visit the "Let's Get Ready to Read" section [|http://www.starfall.com]
 * Online and downloadable activities for students learning letters through those that can read emergent connected text.