EDUCATIONAL LINKS: PHONICS
Educators who want to know more about evidence-based reading instruction topics can find accurate and current information on the over 150 sites included on these lists. While we are providing this list of relevant educational links as a service to the educational community, we do not endorse nor do we have any association with these sites.
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PHONICS INTERNET RESOURCES
Six Phonics Myths Dispelled — Article explaining the myths associated with teaching phonics
Word Maker — Activity that teaches children how to combine letters to make words
Effective Decoding Instruction for Diverse Learners — A study group series emphasizing research-based instructional practices designed to teach the skills and understandings necessary for automatic word recognition and alignment of decoding instruction with the structure of the English language
Phonics Online — Teaching modules featuring online workshop activities, sample classroom activities, and links to numerous resources related to phonics instruction
Reading Games — Features reading games for sight words, auditory discrimination, contractions, capital letter recognition, etc., plus word charts and motivational posters
Practice Quiz on Phonics — A list of Phonics rules with easy practice/assessment quizzes
Words and Pictures — Provides online games and activities for Phonics Year 2, CVC words, consonant clusters, long vowel sounds and high frequency words
Early Literacy Instruction: Research Applications in the Classroom — Teaches kids to read at home and school with articles on the basics, suggested activities, summer reading and the use of kids' books
Phonics, Decoding, and Word Identification Defined
Phonics and Structural Analysis — Teacher tips and assessment checklists
Teaching Word Identification Skills and Strategies: A Balanced Approach — Teacher tips and assessment checklists
Phonics For Free — Printable tests and lessons that teach phonics
Captives of the Script: Killing Us Softly with Phonics — A critical analysis from Rethinking Schools Online
Readinga-z.com — 58 sequential lessons with worksheets, flash cards, read-aloud books, decodable books, and sound-symbol books
Teaching Phonics — Best practices for teaching phonics
Phonics Worksheets — Phonics worksheets for consonants and vowel sounds
teAchnology Phonics Lesson — Resources and Tools for teaching technology in the classroom
ProTeacher Phonics Activities — K-8 phonics/decoding resources and activities
The Role of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading — A Houghton-Mifflin position paper
How to Teach Phonics through Writing
Sounds and Symbols — Article from the PBS show “Launching Young Readers”
Phonics — A research article
iKnowthat.com — iKnowthat.com has the internet's most innovative web hosted, multimedia learning activities for children. All activities are standards based, highly interactive, and use state of the art web multimedia including animation, sound, and digitized children's voices. Over 40 major activity platforms cover hundreds of topics in preK-6 math, language arts, science, social studies, and the arts. iKnowthat.com is used by schools, teachers, consumers, parents, grandparents, home schoolers, and of course, the children that they all serve.
Word
Builder — In Word Builder, children combine
sound segments to make words that
animated match pictures. When a target word is formed, the sound
segments are spoken and the whole word is pronounced (in a child's
voice). There are hundreds of vocabulary words organized across 36
topics. There's everything from the ABC's (covers sounds of the letters)
to short and long vowels to consonant blends and consonant digraphs.
Word Match —
With the Word Match game, children match letters or words to animated
pictures. Again, all words are spoken when selected and words are
also
used in sample sentences that describe the animations. The sentences
are
read aloud and can be repeated.
Word Search —
Our Word Search puzzles cover the same vocabulary set as Word Builder
and Word Match. As target words are found in the grid, they are spelled
letter-by-letter and fun animations help reinforce word meanings.
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