1st Grade Phonics Lesson (by date, oldest first)

This curriculum will help your child master:

• Segmenting and blending CVC words accurately.
• Reading and writing CVC words and sentences.
• Reading and writing the first 25 Zeno (high-frequency) words.
• Fluency practice with high-frequency words.
• Spelling CVC words and high-frequency words using multi-sensory methods.
• Strengthening comprehension through reading passages and games.

What's included:

• 35 Comprehensive Lessons:

  • CVC reading, writing, and Zeno word assessment.
  • Detailed lesson plans with clear instructions.
  • A lesson dedicated to each vowel sound (a, o, e, u, i).
  • Practice reading and writing CVC words and sentences.
  • 5 reading passages per vowel, focusing on sounds, CVC words, high-frequency words, and comprehension.

• Skill Reinforcement Activities:

  • Review of letter sounds, high-frequency words, and CVC word reading.
  • Fun and engaging games: Board Games, Bingo, Roll and Read.
  • Flashcards for high-frequency words.
  • Fluency practice tailored for high-frequency words.

• Multi-Sensory Learning Tools:

  • Spelling practice for CVC and high-frequency words.
  • Spelling mats and self-correcting cards for CVC words (with pictures).

This resource is built on evidence-based strategies from the Science of Reading, 95% Phonics, and Fundations, ensuring it aligns with methods proven to help kids succeed. Whether you’re starting your child on their reading journey or need an intervention tool for struggling learners, these lessons offer everything you need for success.

With activities designed for engagement and comprehension, your child will build foundational reading skills while having fun. Plus, the variety of included tools—like decodable passages, games, and multi-sensory activities—makes this a complete and reusable solution for teaching literacy skills effectively.

Learning to read is not something that happens overnight! It takes a lot of practice and persistence! Learning to read seems complicated but the top skills children need are phonemic awareness, decoding, orthographic mapping, fluency skills, comprehension, and lots of persistence and practice! These lessons have all of these skills needed! I give some tips and tricks on how to make it hands-on! These lessons are quick and easy to implement! There is no prep needed. Print and get to work! These work well for your intervention groups or you can hand it to an aide with no extra work from you!

Included:

28 Lessons

Fluency Skills-accuracy, rate, and expression

Phonemic Awareness (CVC words)

Reading CVC Words (blending sounds without sounding out loud)

Spelling CVC Words (orthographic mapping)

High-Frequency Words (most frequently used-orthographic mapping)

Decodable CVC Passages (Scaffolded-one has the sounds, words, and high-frequency words they will see in the passage so they can practice these words in isolation before reading)

This is a lesson that is from my CVC Fluency Lessons Bundle. In this lesson you will have one detailed lesson plan, phonemic awareness, reading CVC words, orthographic mapping of CVC words, a high-frequency word, and scaffolded and regular CVC decodable passage. This is a great introduction to teaching fluency while still working on the important skills students need to become fluent readers! This resource is no prep and easy to use!

I am giving away one of the lessons from my Beginning Reader Phonics lessons! I used 95% Phonics, Wilson Fundations, and the Science of Reading to create these beginner reader lessons! This first lesson works on segmenting and blending CVC words with vowel a.

Included:

Detailed Lesson Plan

Phonemic Awareness

Letter Tiles

Introduction to reading words

Introduction to writing words

High-Frequency Word Page; the

Practice the differences between the -ge/-dge word ending. Example lesson provides practice in phonological awareness, guided practice, connection to word meaning, reading of text.

This packet has activities and visuals to support practice with demonstrating understanding of why we use -ge or a -dge ending.

• Students will sort words/pictures with the -ge/-dge ending
• Students can practice writing / or selecting the appropriate word ending.
• A visual is provided to discuss & sort the rules.
• Students will highlight, read and then write sentences using the words they have learned. For more practice have students read their sentences to one another!
• Students will also read a story, at the end they will finish it!

Answer key included:)

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Word Ending Digraphs - ch / -tch

Questions? Feel free to email me at untilthepiecesfit2@gmail.com

Practice the differences between the -ch/-tch word ending. Example lesson provides practice in phonological awareness, guided practice, connection to word meaning, reading of text with WH questions.

This packet has activities and visuals to support practice with demonstrating understanding of why we use -ch or a -tch ending.

• Students will sort words/pictures with the -ch/-tch ending
• Students can practice writing / or selecting the appropriate word ending.
• A bw / color visual is provided to discuss the rules. Students can color their visual and take home.
• Students will highlight, read and then write sentences using the words they have learned. For more practice have students read their sentences to one another!
• Students will also read three short stories. Wh questions about the story included for comprehension practice.

Answer key included:)

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Word Ending Digraphs - ge/-dge

Questions? Feel free to email me at untilthepiecesfit2@gmail.com

Use this slideshow to help you introduce the 5 spelling rules of English AND print out the charts to hang up for students to reference!

This slideshow includes 2 slides per rule.

One slide is to introduce the rule. This is an INTERACTIVE slide for you to click through as you introduce the rule.

**There is TEACHER VERBIAGE included in the notes section of the slideshow. This tells you exactly what to say as you introduce the rule and click through the slide.

The second slide is an anchor chart that lays out the check points and provides sample words.

*Access to the slideshow is provided through a link in the downloaded PDF. This will force you to make a copy of my original google slideshow.

If the preview video doesn't work, click this link to view it!

This bookmark resource provides you with 5 quick tasks to practice. It includes isolating beginning, middle, and ending sounds and blending and segmenting sounds. There is a small list of words provided so that you don't have to think them up. Keep this small bookmark in your purse, on a clipboard, on your lanyard, or anywhere that you can quickly grab and go!

This isn't an ordinary CVC word list. This list organizes these CVC words into two groups. Words that begin with continuous sounds and words that begin with stop sounds.

You will want to use words with continuous sounds to support beginning and struggling readers.

This is a great resource to use when planning your instruction! Happy Planning! :)

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Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short u Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short u CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short u Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short u Word Grid

⭐ Short u Word Builder

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short o Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short o CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short o Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short o Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short o Word Builder

⭐ Short o Word Grid

Want a no-prep word-building activity?

Say, Flip, Write, Build is just what you need. Each of the 4 versions has pictures around a specific phonics pattern. However, this product doesn’t have students just cutting and gluing letters. Instead, they are practicing saying the word multiple times as they segment the sounds, write the corresponding letters, then build the word using letter tiles.

Included in this resource:

⭐4 different sheets

⭐With 6 different short a CVC pictures each

Other resources to check out:

⭐ Short a Flip, Tap, Write, Use

⭐Short a Word Grid

⭐ Short a Word Builder

⭐ Short a Spin a Word

⭐ Short a Mega Phonics Bundle

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short e Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use

⭐1 page with 4 sets of letter tiles for short e CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short e Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short e Word Builder

⭐ Short e Word Grid

⭐ Short e Mega Phonics Bundle

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short a Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short a Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short a Word Builder

⭐ Short a Word Grid

⭐ Short a Mega Phonics Bundle

Short Vowel (CVC) Say, Tap, Write, Build Review is a non-prep resource that can be used in a variety of settings to help students practice putting many crucial decoding skills together.

Included in this resource:

⭐8 different sheets

⭐Each sheet has a variety of short vowels represented

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short u Word Sorts

⭐ Short u Word Ladders

⭐ Short u Say, Tap, Write, Build

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short a Word Sorts

⭐ Short a Word Ladders

⭐ Short a Say, Tap, Write, Build

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short i Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short i CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short i Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short i Word Builder

⭐ Short i Word Grid

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short i Word Sorts

⭐ Short i Word Ladders

⭐ Short i Say, Tap, Write, Build

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

Looking for a way to help your students practice the skill of decoding? With blending lines, you can do just that. This quick no-prep digital or paper activity can have your students practicing decoding (sounding out) words in a snap. These blending lines are phonics focused and are great for whole-group or small-group learning. I’ve based these lists on Wiley Blevins’s suggestions for blending lines.

In this resource you will find:

3 different variations of blending lines for the phonics skill. Each variation offers a little change of words and a higher level of challenging words and sentences.

Each variation is offered in:

· digital

· paper, full sheet, with or without guides

· paper, double sheet, with or without guides.

Other resources you may like.

⭐ Short Vowel Say, Tap, Write, Build Bundle
⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle
⭐ Short Vowel Word Builders Bundle