Happy December! Long Vowels Freebie

Happy December!

We have tried to amp up our phonics and spelling practice this year by emphasizing multi syllable words in our literacy stations.

Our kiddos need practice with basic phonics decoding skills, but we didn't want to use the same words that they had been using since first and second grade. The words that accompany our new basal aren't rigorous enough to meet the foundational skills of Common Core, so we've tried to use multi syllable words in our decoding practice.

Your gift today is a Scoot game. Put one card on each desk, give each child or team of children a recording sheet, and ring a bell. Each child records the word under the correct heading, then moves to the next desk when they hear the bell.

Just click on the pic above to get your gift.

I love Scoot because they kids don't even know they are reviewing. It's a fun way to do a formative assessment at the end of a lesson, too.

Robot Power! - Freebie!

We are working hard this year to refine our foundational skills in reading in our third grade classroom. Part of every reading class is spent on decoding words,  with an emphasis on multisyllabic words.

Here is a fun game to practice spelling words. 

Students draw cards and spell the words. The goal is to have more cards than the other players when all the cards have been drawn. But be careful! Draw a robot and you have to put all your cards back!

Just click on the pic above to get the freebie.

A Pirate's Treasure of Multisyllable Long Vowel Words and the Giveaway Winner!

I love all things pirate! Don't you?

You and your little mates can combine decoding multisyllable words with long vowel sounds and writing sentences with this activity.

Students draw a pirate card and a shark card. They use the word on the pirate card to write the type of sentence on the shark card.

Just click on the pic above to get the activity.

Congratulations to Andrea L. She is the winner of my Back to School Giveaway and gets the Thinking Mats from Carson Dellosa. Check your email, Andrea!

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Gifting Long Vowels - Freebies

Need practice for sorting two syllable words with long vowels? Put this activity in a literacy station. After students sort the words, ask them to write expanded sentences using one word from each category.

Just click on the pic above to get the file.

How many two syllable long vowel words can you leave in a comment? :)

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Two Syllable Long Vowel Words - Freebie

I'm giving this activity to my kiddos in a literacy station next week for practice in sorting long vowel two syllable words.

I need to bump up our practice on distinguishing the different long vowel sounds. 

After sorting the words, they will choose one word from each category to use in sentences.

 Just click on the pic above to download the file.

Can you use two syllable words with long vowels in a comment? :)