$5 - $10 Homeschool Phonics Games (by date, oldest first)

Reading and letters can be FUN! These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on each skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small-groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time!

Includes:

All 26 letters of the alphabet

Letter names and sounds

Reading words with word families

Reading words with short vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

Reading 1-25 Zeno High-Frequency Words

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

These games are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! I give different tips and tricks to work on the skill! I would use these as a Friday fun day during small groups and my students loved them! These games don't have any prep! Print and play! I would suggest laminating or sticking in a sheet protector to keep them nice for a longer period of time! You can also use the bingo games as fun review as a whole class

Includes:

Roll and Read

Board Games

Bingo

CVC:

Reading words with word families

Reading words with short vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in isolation and mixed

Beginning Blends:

bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl

br, cr, dr, gr, fr, pr, tr

sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, str, sw

End Blends:

nd, sk, st, ft, sp, nt, nk, lt, ct, lt

*All vowels are short vowels

Digraphs:

sh

th

wh

ch

ck

*All vowels are short vowels

*Some of the words also include blends

Practice long vowel teams with these engaging Roll and Read fluency games for A, E, I, O, and U. This bundle includes 30 game boards, perfect for literacy centers, small groups, or independent practice. Ideal for building phonics skills in kindergarten, first, and second grade.

⭐Save 30% with this bundle!⭐

⭐Save 30% with the Roll and Read Growing Bundle!⭐

What's included:

• 30 total roll and read games
• Directions page
• Table of contents

Included in the bundle:

6 boards for each vowel:

• long a - a_e, ai & ay
• long e - ea, ee, ey & y
• long i - i_e, ie, igh & y
• long o - o_e, oa, oe & ow
• long u - u_e, ew, ue, ui

How to play:

• Students can play individually or with partners.
• Roll the dot cube. Read the first word in the row. Cover the word with a counter or color in the box. Keep rolling and reading words until someone reaches the top of a column first!

More Roll & Read Games:

Hard & Soft C & G

R-Controlled Vowels

CVC Short Vowels

Beginning Blends

Keep your students engaged with this Thanksgiving Math and Phonics Centers Bundle! This bundle includes roll and race math games and phonics roll and read worksheets! Use these resources in your math and literacy centers, Thanksgiving activities, morning work, early finishers, sub plans and more! These games are great for kindergarten, first, second, and third grade students.

⭐Save 30% with this bundle!⭐

What's Included:

• 12 math roll & race gameboards
• 47 phonics roll & read gameboards
• Color & black and white options for each resource
• Directions page for each resource
• Recording pages (for math resources)

Skills Include:

• Addition & Subtraction Within 10
• Addition & Subtraction Within 20
• CVC, Digraphs & Blends
• CVCe Long Vowels
• Long Vowel Teams
• R-Controlled Vowels
• Hard and Soft C & G

After Fall Break Resources:

Spin & Chat Icebreaker Game

After Fall Break Reflections

More Math and Phonics Games:

Roll & Read Phonics Growing Bundle

Roll & Race Math Growing Bundle

Keep your students engaged with this Fall Math and Phonics Centers Bundle! This bundle includes roll and race math games and phonics roll and read worksheets! Use these resources in your math and literacy centers, autumn activities, morning work, early finishers, sub plans and more! These games are great for kindergarten, first, second, and third grade students.

⭐Save over 30% with this bundle!⭐

What's Included:

• 12 math roll & race gameboards
• 47 phonics roll & read gameboards
• Color & black and white options for each resource
• Directions page for each resource
• Recording pages (for math resources)

Skills Include:

• Addition & Subtraction Within 10
• Addition & Subtraction Within 20
• CVC, Digraphs & Blends
• CVCe Long Vowels
• Long Vowel Teams
• R-Controlled Vowels
• Hard and Soft C & G

After Fall Break Resources:

Spin & Chat Icebreaker Game

After Fall Break Reflections

More Math and Phonics Games:

Roll & Read Phonics Growing Bundle

Roll & Race Math Growing Bundle

This bundle of engaging CVC Mystery Words Digital Activities (plus flashcards with pictures and worksheets) is perfect for pre-school, kindergarten, or first-grade students learning short vowel sounds in CVC words. Students can play this short vowel sounds digital mystery independently or with a partner!

This resource includes:

   ✏ 38 Google Slide™ self-checking digital game (this game teaches rhyming words, identifying -AT CVC sounds, and matching pictures with CVC words)

   ✏115 Google Slide™ self-checking digital game: Mystery Moving Boxes!

✏125 Google Slide™ self-checking digital game: Mystery Animal Party!

   ✏ 8 CVC word flashcards with pictures

   ✏ 2 Worksheets to help practice spelling 8 CVC words

Unique Features:

   ✏ Self-checking questions and answers (students get instant feedback for each answer)

   ✏ Audio sounds included for additional student support

   ✏ No prep! Students can play instantly

Please download the preview to view a sample.

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Ending Phonograms Word Families made EASY

CVC Words & Reading Fluency included!  Reading instruction and planning made EASY, consistent, effortless, and engaging!

Take the guesswork, hours of planning, and the headache out of prepping for your small group guided reading instruction!

Teaching word families and practicing nonsense cvc words has a dramatic impact on reading fluency in early readers.  Year over year, my students achieve benchmark or higher in reading fluency and nonsense cvc word fluency using this amazing resource I created.

What you get with this unit:

• A week's worth of researched-based, classroom-tested word family sorts

• Labels for word family sort envelopes (These are the envelopes I use)

• Word work pages to work on segmenting, blending, and handwriting

• Reading fluency passages and assessment

• Nonsense cvc word practice and assessment

• Word family BINGO and word family coloring pages

• Sample small group schedule and tracking sheets to help plan your small groups or for use at home

Just print and teach! EASY!✔️

Word Families included:

ink

ing

ank

ang

Check out all the Short Vowel Small Group plans here:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Small-Groups-Made-EaSY-Short-Vowel-Unit-Bundle-4500806

Save by purchasing all 32 word family units here:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Word-Families-made-EASY-Resources-for-the-YEAR-CVC-Words-Reading-Fluency-too-5813750

These resources work well with any curriculum (homeschool curriculum, reach for reading, wonders, etc)

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

CVC Word Games-Ice Cream Sundae

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Blog posts you may enjoy

**⭐**The Surprising Benefits of Learning Word Families for Reading and Writing Fluency

⭐Take Sight Words Outside

⭐Teaching CvC Words

Let's Connect

Blog

Instagram

Newsletter* coming soon!

Keywords: Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade

Enhance your Guided Reading small groups with this fun resource designed to increase fluency and accuracy in nonsense word fluency.

What you get:

Real and Nonsense Word Cards on different shaped cookies

*Each real word has a rhyming nonsense word

*30 cards- 3 of each real and nonsense words for every vowel

*Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

'Real' or 'Silly' Words plate cards for Sorting

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

-Leslie

Word Family Short e CVC Interactive Notebook Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Interactive Notebooks make learning to read FUN!

These interactive notebook pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master short-e CVC words. Each page includes activities and exercises to reinforce phonics skills. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they cut, paste, write, and read words in a fun and interactive way. These notebook pages are perfect for use in the classroom or at home for extra practice.

Features:

- Interactive activities for hands-on learning

- Focus on short-e CVC word families

- Cut, paste, write, and read exercises

- Engaging and fun for students

Benefits:

- Helps students practice and master phonics skills

- Reinforces word recognition and reading fluency

- Provides a visual and interactive way to learn

- Suitable for use in the classroom or at home

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-e words

• Word sort with pictures
• Build-a-Word Picture Puzzles
• Label the picture with short-e words
• Word family fluency reading page
• Easy spelling test page

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie

Check out my website here

Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade, Interactive Notebooks

Word Family Beginning Blends Interactive Notebook Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Interactive Notebooks make learning to read FUN!

These interactive notebook pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master words with beginning blends. Each page includes activities and exercises to reinforce phonics skills. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they cut, paste, write, and read words in a fun and interactive way. These notebook pages are perfect for use in the classroom or at home for extra practice.

Features:

- Interactive activities for hands-on learning

- Focus on beginning blends word families

- Cut, paste, write, and read exercises

- Engaging and fun for students

Benefits:

- Helps students practice and master phonics skills

- Reinforces word recognition and reading fluency

- Provides a visual and interactive way to learn

- Suitable for use in the classroom or at home

What you get:

Five pages for practicing beginning r and s blends

• Word sort with pictures
• Build-a-Word Picture Puzzles
• Label the picture with beginning blends
• Word family fluency reading page
• Easy spelling test page

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie

Check out my website here

Keywords: Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade, Interactive Notebooks

Halloween CVC Word Practice and Games

Hands-On Games, blending practice, and rhyme matching.

Halloween CVC Word Practice and Games makes learning to read FUN!

What is a CVC word? Words like cat, hot, and hit are all Consonant Vowel Consonant words. Mastering nonsense word fluency is a big step toward achieving reading fluency. These hands-on nonsense words with pictures can be used as a matching game, word sorts, or memory. They can be used in small groups or in centers with included nonsense word fluency worksheets.

What you get:

Halloween Themed CVC Word Fluency Practice Activities

• 15 cards with CVC words for Kindergarten or First Grade

• 15 cards with CVC word pictures

• 15 nonsense word cards that rhyme with the real cvc words to extend the activities.

• Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

• 'Real' or 'Nonsense' Words cards for Sorting

• Blending Board and Blending Chips

• 5 CVC Word Worksheets for independent practice/accountability

These Hands-On nonsense word fluency practice activities for Kindergarten are so much fun! And with the included CVC word worksheets, you can track their learning. Your students will love them!

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish, So fun!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

Word Family Short i CVC Interactive Notebook Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Interactive Notebooks make learning to read FUN!

These interactive notebook pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master short-i CVC words. Each page includes activities and exercises to reinforce phonics skills. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they cut, paste, write, and read words in a fun and interactive way. These notebook pages are perfect for use in the classroom or at home for extra practice.

Features:

- Interactive activities for hands-on learning

- Focus on short-i CVC word families

- Cut, paste, write, and read exercises

- Engaging and fun for students

Benefits:

- Helps students practice and master phonics skills

- Reinforces word recognition and reading fluency

- Provides a visual and interactive way to learn

- Suitable for use in the classroom or at home

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-i words

• Word sort with pictures
• Build-a-Word Picture Puzzles
• Label the picture with short-i words
• Word family fluency reading page
• Easy spelling test page

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie

Check out my website here

Keywords: Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade, Interactive Notebooks

Word Family Short u CVC Interactive Notebook Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Interactive Notebooks make learning to read FUN!

These interactive notebook pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master short-u CVC words. Each page includes activities and exercises to reinforce phonics skills. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they cut, paste, write, and read words in a fun and interactive way. These notebook pages are perfect for use in the classroom or at home for extra practice.

Features:

- Interactive activities for hands-on learning

- Focus on short-u CVC word families

- Cut, paste, write, and read exercises

- Engaging and fun for students

Benefits:

- Helps students practice and master phonics skills

- Reinforces word recognition and reading fluency

- Provides a visual and interactive way to learn

- Suitable for use in the classroom or at home

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-u words

• Word sort with pictures
• Build-a-Word Picture Puzzles
• Label the picture with short-u words
• Word family fluency reading page
• Easy spelling test page

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie

Check out my website here

Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade, Interactive Notebooks

Word Family Short o CVC Interactive Notebook Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Interactive Notebooks make learning to read FUN!

These interactive notebook pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master short-o CVC words. Each page includes activities and exercises to reinforce phonics skills. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they cut, paste, write, and read words in a fun and interactive way. These notebook pages are perfect for use in the classroom or at home for extra practice.

Features:

- Interactive activities for hands-on learning

- Focus on short-o CVC word families

- Cut, paste, write, and read exercises

- Engaging and fun for students

Benefits:

- Helps students practice and master phonics skills

- Reinforces word recognition and reading fluency

- Provides a visual and interactive way to learn

- Suitable for use in the classroom or at home

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-o words

• Word sort with pictures
• Build-a-Word Picture Puzzles
• Label the picture with short-o words
• Word family fluency reading page
• Easy spelling test page

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie

Check out my website here

Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade, Interactive Notebooks

First Grade Small Group Resources:

R Controlled Vowels- AR Word Families made EASY

CVC Words, Nonsense Word Fluency Practice & Reading Fluency included!  Reading instruction and planning made EASY, consistent, effortless, and engaging!

Take the guesswork, hours of planning, and the headache out of prepping for your small group guided reading instruction!

Teaching ar word families and nonsense word fluency practice words has a dramatic impact on reading fluency in early readers.  Year over year, my students achieve benchmark or higher in reading fluency and nonsense word fluency using this amazing resource I created. This ties in to the Science of Reading Word Recognition strands by practicing phonemic awareness, decoding, and sight recognition.

What you get with these first grade small group resources:

• A week's worth of researched-based, classroom-tested ar word family sorts

• Labels for word family sort envelopes (These are the envelopes I use)

• Word work pages to work on segmenting, blending, and handwriting

• Reading fluency passages and assessment

• Nonsense word fluency practice and assessment

• Word family BINGO and word family coloring pages

• Sample small group schedule and tracking sheets to help plan your small groups or for use at home

Just print and teach! EASY!✔️

Word Families included:

ar

ark

art

Check out all the Short Vowel Small Group plans here:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Small-Groups-Made-EaSY-Short-Vowel-Unit-Bundle-4500806

Save by purchasing all 32+ word family units here:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Word-Families-made-EASY-Resources-for-the-YEAR-CVC-Words-Reading-Fluency-too-5813750

These resources work well with any curriculum (homeschool curriculum, reach for reading, wonders, etc)

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

CVC Word Games-Ice Cream Sundae

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Blog posts you may enjoy

**⭐**The Surprising Benefits of Learning Word Families for Reading and Writing Fluency

⭐Take Sight Words Outside

⭐Teaching CvC Words

Let's Connect

Blog

Instagram

Newsletter* coming soon!

Keywords: Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade

Enhance your Guided Reading small groups with this fun resource designed to increase fluency and accuracy in nonsense word fluency.

What you get:

Real and Nonsense Word Cards on different shaped cookies

*Each real word has a rhyming nonsense word

*30 cards- 3 of each real and nonsense words for every vowel

*Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

'Real' or 'Silly' Words plate cards for Sorting

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Thank you and Happy New Year!

-Leslie

Nonsense Words Fluency Practice for Kindergarten Hands-On Ice Cream Sundae CVC Word Game makes learning to read FUN!

What is a CVC word? Words like cat, hot, and hit are all consonant Vowel Consonant words. Mastering Nonsense word fluency for kindergarten students is a big step toward achieving reading fluency. These hands-on cvc words with pictures can be used as a matching game, word sorts, or memory. They can be used in small groups or in centers instead of nonsense word worksheets.

What you get:

Ice Cream Sundae Themed CVC Word Game

• 15 cards with CVC words for Kindergarten

• 15 cards with CVC word pictures

• 15 nonsense word cards that rhyme with the real cvc words to extend the activities.

• Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort in two styles: cups and cherries

• 'Real' or 'Nonsense' Words cards for Sorting

These Hands-On CVC nonsense words fluency practice activities for Kindergarten are so much more fun than CVC word worksheets. Your students will love them!

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish, or make a super fun center activity with a metal ice cream scoop and attaching magnets to the cards. So fun!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

Enhance your Guided Reading small groups with this fun resource designed to increase fluency and accuracy in nonsense word fluency.

What you get:

Real and Nonsense Word Cards with Cute Turkeys

*Each real word has a rhyming nonsense word

*30 cards- 3 of each real and nonsense words for every vowel

*Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

'Real' or 'Silly' Words Headings for Sorting

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Thank you!

-Leslie

Nonsense Word Fluency Practice-Kindergarten or First Grade Activities

Hands-On Games!

Nonsense Word Fluency Practice and Games makes learning to read FUN!

What is a CVC word? Words like cat, hot, and hit are all Consonant Vowel Consonant words. Mastering nonsense word fluency for kindergarten students is a big step toward achieving reading fluency. These hands-on nonsense words with pictures can be used as a matching game, word sorts, or memory. They can be used in small groups or in centers with included nonsense word fluency worksheets.

What you get:

Back to School Themed Nonsense Word Fluency Practice Activities

• 15 cards with CVC words for Kindergarten or First Grade

• 15 cards with CVC word pictures

• 15 nonsense word cards that rhyme with the real cvc words to extend the activities.

• Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

• 'Real' or 'Nonsense' Words cards for Sorting

• CVC Word Worksheet (2 versions) for independent practice/accountability

These Hands-On nonsense word fluency practice activities for Kindergarten are so much fun! And with the included CVC word worksheets, you can track their learning. Your students will love them!

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish, So fun!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

Word Family Short A CVC Interactive Notebook Pages

No Prep, just print and go!

Hands-On Interactive notebook pages!

Interactive Notebooks make learning to read FUN!

These interactive notebook pages are designed to help first-grade students practice and master short-a CVC words. Each page focuses on a specific word family, such as -at, -an, or -ad, and includes activities and exercises to reinforce phonics skills. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they cut, paste, write, and read words in a fun and interactive way. These notebook pages are perfect for use in the classroom or at home for extra practice.

Features:

- Interactive activities for hands-on learning

- Focus on short-a CVC word families

- Cut, paste, write, and read exercises

- Engaging and fun for students

Benefits:

- Helps students practice and master phonics skills

- Reinforces word recognition and reading fluency

- Provides a visual and interactive way to learn

- Suitable for use in the classroom or at home

What you get:

Five pages for practicing short-a words

• Word sort with pictures
• Build-a-Word Picture Puzzles
• Label the picture with short-a words
• Word family fluency reading page
• Easy spelling test page

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Resources you may also love ❤️

The 5 Jobs of Silent E

First Grade Reach for Reading Bundle

Short Vowel CVC Word Small Group plans

Thank you!

-Leslie @smalltownteacherlife

Keywords: Word Families, CVC Words, Reading Fluency, Reading Groups, Kindergarten, Home School, 1st grade, Interactive Notebooks