Have you heard of voiced vs unvoiced sounds? Some kids struggle with articulation. Their inability to articulate certain sounds may decrease their reading accuracy. Kids who struggle with articulation …
What are Consonant Blends?
Consonant blends are 2 or more letter sounds in a row. Some examples include sp as in spot, nd as in land and sn as in snow. Kids typically learn consonant blends in kindergarten. Educators often …
Sight Word List from Reading Elephant
Our sight word list is now up in our shop. Our sight word list follows the Reading Elephant decodable book series. The list also comes with an assessment so you can determine what sight words your …
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Christmas Phonics Stories
In this post, there are links to two free printable Christmas phonics stories. One includes kindergarten phonics sounds and the other includes first grade phonics sounds. Kindergarten Christmas …
Halloween Phonics Stories
For some FREE Halloween phonics stories, check out our Halloween kindergarten phonics story and our Halloween first grade phonics story. Follow links to access the leveled phonics story "Pam's …
Letter Sounds Activity
When kids learn letter sounds, they should practice with a variety of sounds. For example, if the child is learning s, m, t, a, be sure to include each of these sounds in the letter sounds activity. …
Teaching Alphabet Sounds
Reading Elephant started a YouTube channel. Please check out our first video on teaching alphabet sounds. Here's the link: There are a few principles you should follow when teaching alphabet …
CVC Word Books
Kindergartners need to start off reading CVC word books. CVC stands for consonant-vowel-consonant words as in cat, sit, and bet. After kindergartners learn letter sounds and short vowels, they can …
Phonics Lessons for Kindergarten
Phonics lessons for kindergarten should give kids a strong decoding foundation. Decoding skills allow kids to sound out words. When a child can read words sound-by-sound, he can read a broad range of …
CVC Words for Kindergarten
Beginning readers first learn to read cvc words (also called short vowel words). CVC words for kindergarten are consonant-vowel-consonant words like bag, fan, met, cup... etc. CVC words include short …