K-6 Literacy Resources for Teachers & Parents
Halloween poems help teach phonics skills Who wants to teach dry or boring phonics lessons? No one, that’s who. That’s why short Halloween poems written especially for kids help make teaching phonics skills easier, more targeted, and definitely a whole lot more fun. Halloween poems are perfect for teaching mini-lessons in October It would be …
Here’s a poem I specifically wrote for teaching the rather small, but still important word family of -ould (should, would, could). Kids often misspell these words so they should be taught together…see what I did there? I like to think this also makes a good poem for teaching about logical consequences of behavior choices too …
I’ve collected plenty of autumn poems for kids over the years, but for teaching phonics, I could never find exactly what I needed. That’s when I first started writing poems with a teaching target in mind. When it came time to write a poem for the au vowel digraph (vowel team), it was a no …
Whether you are teaching a bubble gum thematic unit or the -ew word family in a targeted mini-lesson, check out this short phonics poem embedded with theses ew words: chew, grew, and blew. This bubble gum phonics poem with -ew words is available as a FREEBIE. It’s part of a much larger collection of phonics …
First of all, what are phonics poems? They’re simply poems that can be used as good examples (exemplars) to teach specific phonics skills. Why use phonics poems for teaching reading? 1. Phonics poems provide an efficient use of short instructional time: As a reading intervention teacher, I typically had between 15-20 minutes to work with …
Phonics poems help teach short and long vowel sounds Phonics poems differ from other types of poetry because they are written specifically to be a targeted teaching text. They are strategically embedded with words of a certain spelling or sound pattern (such as the long o vowel/silent e) to help teach that specific phonics skill. …