Building Block 6: Segmenting
Learning phonics can be fun! Here's a selection of decoding games, word-building activities, and consonant blend scavenger hunts that will help your child establish a foundation in phonics, while building a positive association with reading. Learning phonics is an essential stepping stone to reading fluency.
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Play Flip Over Vowels
Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.
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Crazy Eights With Word Families!
Help your kindergartener make and play a "Hop On Pop"-inspired card game--a fun way to learn word families!
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Paper Plate Phonics
Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.
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Grocery Store Decoding
Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.
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Consonant Blend Scavenger Hunt
Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.
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Toss and Blend: A Carnival Game
This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.
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Jumping Bean Phonics
This cute game that lets your child practice making words, while acting like a Mexican jumping bean! Great for emerging readers.
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Digraph Bingo
Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.
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