Kindergartners needs to learn to read sound-by-sound. At first, kindergartners learn letter sounds and short vowels. These basic phonics sounds help kids decode cvc words like cat, met, dig and mop. …
Kindergarten Sight Word Worksheet
Kids need to learn to read and spell sight words, because these words do not follow the phonetic code. Sight words have at least one irregular component. Children should learn phonics, the …
How to Teach Sight Words
Sight words are common words that are not entirely phonetic. For example, "the" is a sight word. "The" has a phonetic component /th/ and an irregular component /e/. Thus, the student needs to break …
New Consonant Digraph Books
Reading Elephant released 10 new consonant digraph books to our series. Kids usually learn consonant digraphs in kindergarten. Reading Elephant consonant digraph books systematically introduce the …
Halloween Kindergarten Phonics Story
I've written a festive Halloween kindergarten phonics story called Pam's Pumpkin. It includes short vowel words and consonant digraph words. There are some sight words in the story including: have, …
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