Encoding activities

Take a moment to think about how you teach spelling and reading? What strategies do you use and suggest to students when teaching them how to read and spell? Do these strategies involve looking at the pictures? Using context clues to guess the words? If you answered yes to the last two questions above, consider the following:When looking at a picture are you actually reading a word or are you identifying an object in a picture? These are two different processes in our brains. Our brains were…

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Sorting multisyllabic words activities Improving fluency is something we are always looking to do. I have the students do a number of activities with connected text to achieve this. But most of the time, students

Learn the difference between decoding and encoding and how to practice these important literacy skills with your students

Help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice decoding multisyllabic words with these 9 engaging activity ideas. These ideas make lesson planning and teaching multisyllabic word strategies to upper elementary students easier. Word sorts, word walls, syllable ladders, and more decoding multisyllabic words activity ideas.

These long a decoding activities are perfect for students learning to read and write words with the long a phonics pattern. Each decodable includes words, nonsense words, sentences, and a short story.

Ditch the phonics worksheets and try these hands-on phonics activities to incorporate the science of reading into your literacy instruction.

Try these simple activities for phonics practice with your class! This no-prep phonics game is a great way to keep your students learning!

How to teach this science of reading approach of continuous blending in kindergarten. Learn more and grab a free printable here.

Decoding is the process of using knowledge of letters, sounds, and words to read and understand written language.