Interactive phonics game

Can you help the frog make it home? Avoid the traffic and cross the rivers by jumping on the logs that have real words. Good luck! Skills taught: Recognizing vowel and consonant digraphs, blending, reading fluency. Read the sentence at the bottom then try replacing the words using the word blocks. Can you make a new sentence? Does it still make sense? Skills taught: Sounding out, blending consonant groups, reading syllable words, reading fluency.

Sound out the tricky words that appear on each of the trucks. How many tricky words can you say correctly? Skills taught: Grapheme recognition, sounding out, blending, recognizing tricky exception words. Can you match the picture cards to the word cards? Try to remember where you saw the two matching cards to find a pair. Skills taught: Grapheme recognition, sounding out, blending, visual memory, auditory memory. Can you help the penguins escape? Phonics Bloom is an interactive educational resource, providing phonics games for both the classroom and home.

Phase 3 Overview: Expansion. Grab a stack of plastic cups and some ping pong balls for this fun phonics game! Label the cups with different letter blends and set them out tape them down if they tend to fall over. Kids toss a ball into a cup, then come up with a word that uses that letter blend to earn a point.

Learn more: Education. This is an especially fun way to work on CVC and sight words. Learn more: Inspired Elementary. This has got to be one of our favorite phonics activities. Cut a pool noodle into pieces and label it with letters.

Then stack and spin for learning fun! Learn more: Pool Noodle Phonics. Slide the free printable inserts into a set of photo cubes, then roll until you get the correct combination of letter and word ending. These clever phonics tools are easy to make using paint stirrer sticks and paper towel tubes. Simply slide the stick in and out to make new words! Save the flip tops and use them for DIY phonics activities.

Learn more: No Time for Flashcards. Sort and match cards to practice beginning sounds, blends, short and long vowels, and so much more. Every kid loves a good game of bingo! Snag these free printable bingo cards and use them to practice blends and digraphs. This one almost seems too fun to count as learning!

Tape up beginning sounds, then toss water balloons to complete the words. Vowels have more than one sound, and this can be difficult for kids to master. Since English is not a phonetic language, learning the patterns and rules associated with the combinations of letters and spelling is essential to mastering the skills needed for reading.

Turtle Diary offers a variety of phonics videos that go letter by letter, sound by sound, presenting each in a fun and entertaining way. Kids will love to watch the animated graphics and hear the letter pronounced by sound and show different words associated with it, and then the word used in a sentence. They also offer videos with vowel-consonant combinations, diphthongs, short and long vowels, and Digraphs, along with other tricky intricacies of the language.

The videos present an enjoyable way for kids to experience these rules in a multi-sensory approach. Once the videos have been exhausted, kids can move onto incredibly fun phonics games where they can put their skills to practice.

Favorites include Phonics Memory, where they can both learn and practice the sounds of letters and match them with corresponding pictures in a traditional memory-type game.

Partners in Rhyme encourages kids to find rhyming words and those with the same end sounds, with each page offering three pairs of rhyming words. Kids click to match the words with rhyming sounds in succession on each page.