Homeschooling can provide parents with flexibility and the ability to curate the curriculum to meet their child’s needs. The most essential academic subjects are reading and math, because we need literacy and numeracy skills for almost every job and we use them in our daily lives. In this post, I’ll provide some recommendations for homeschool […]
Phonics Grade 1
Holiday Long Vowel Worksheets
In our last post, there was an error in our holiday tree. The error has been corrected and in this post, Reading Elephant is offering a silent e, ee/ea and ai/ay worksheet. Holiday Silent e Tree Silent e Pdf ee/ea Holiday Tree with Interleaving This holiday tree allows kids to review short vowels and silent […]
Silent e Holiday Worksheet
Kids usually learn the silent e sounds at the end of Kindergarten or beginning of first grade. Here is a silent e holiday worksheet that your student can read and color: Silent e Pdf Explicitly teach the difference between short vowels and silent e. Teach the difference between short vowels and silent e by presenting […]
Chunking as a Sight Word Strategy
Kids need to learn to read and spell sight words. These are words that break the phonetic code in some way. For example, “there” is a sight word, because although the /th/ and /r/ sounds are regular, the e_e sound is not. If we spelled “there” phonetically, we would write “thair.” There are about 100-150 […]
Halloween 1st Grade Phonics Story
In this FREE Halloween 1st grade phonics story, kids can practice reading short vowels, silent e, long vowel digraphs and some common sight words. [Scroll down for the free Halloween story pdf.] In Kindergarten, kids usually master short vowel words like mat, fun, and patch. Throughout 1st grade, students need to continue to practice these […]