So we've been talking about ways to include phonics instruction in your classroom and I've come across several websites I thought were very interesting and helpful:
Working with Words :: This is a site designed by a school district meant to be a resource for teachers implementing the Working with Words block from the Four Blocks program. It contains several activities for "doing" the word wall as well as supplemental ideas for further engaging kids with phonics.
Web Sites for Teaching Phonics :: This is a collection of links to articles, webspaces and activities that you may find useful in thinking about phonics in the classroom. The list is older and several of the links are not functional but those that are are handy.
Phonics Link :: A website that explores ways to incorporate phonics instruction into literature-based activities. Aligned with California state standards, but could easily be modified to fit Indiana or (insert state of choice) standards.
Making Words Activities :: A collection of activities you can do with students to encourage phonics development. Also has reproducibles and great lesson plan ideas.
Hopefully you find these links helpful as you continue to think about how to include phonics in your language arts teaching philosophies.
As always, comment with questions.
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Thanks for all of these websites! They are so helpful, and give creative ways for incorporating phonics into the classroom. Since being in this class, I feel much more comfortable with teaching phonics, and talking about it in job interviews. Anytime that I would hear phonics, I would always think of boring and repetitive activities in the classroom. Now, I know so many different games and activities that are interesting and valuable to students.
I really enjoyed the activity we did in class last week dealing with word work. It really gave us a good idea on how to incorporate different phonics lessons. I'm glad you are giving us these websites for useful information, they are great resources! I am starting to understand phonics in a better way now that you are giving us these examples and videos in class. I'm still nervous about talking about different activities or lessons I would do with my own class but I'm sure by the end of the semester you will have us prepped and more great resources from the web! Thanks again.
Thanks for posting these websites! I am starting to feel more comfortable with phonics and how to incorporate it in my classroom. I also feel that the presentations have been a good way to incorporate phonics and other literacy activities into the classroom. I am also starting to feel more comfortable in how I would explain phonics and how I would explain it during job interviews. I am also starting to discover how I would balance phonics and whole language teaching.
Thank you very much for these links. As it has become apparent that we need assistance in prepping for phonics instruction, all the help we can get is greatly appreciated. Resources like these set my mind at ease, as i know there will always be some sort of aid if i run into a tight spot in the teaching world. As phonics is such a fundamental part of school, i am glad to see as many resources as possible. Thanks again.
I really enjoyed the 1st and 4th website the most out of these posts. The first one I think is great for the classroom and to discuss in an interview setting. If an interviewer asks about your beliefs in literature or how your literature lessons will look I think discussing the 4 blocks will really help them to understand your ideas and make you look good as well if you know what you are talking about with that system. The fourth website I think is wonderful because it has so many things you can print out and use in the classroom. Makes lesson planning much quicker if you can just print them out instead of creating them yourself. Thats one thing I have learned from this year in the classroom, is teachers must share to make it through the year!
These websites are great resources for phonics ideas and activities! At our field experience seminar, a speaker did some demonstrations with these activities. Working with word activities seem to be fun and also educational. These games working with phonics will definately be incorporated in my classroom. Thanks for the resources, I am starting to understand phonics better! :-)
I feel like i am more comfortable with Phonics already even though weve only kind of touched on it. Coming into this semester i had no idea really what phonics were so im glad that i at least know what they are now. Looking through these websites also will help alot of ideas and understanding of how to incorporate phonics into lessons and not make it so cut and dry for the students. Thanks for all your help!!
I really liked the "Making Words Activities" website. I really liked the words they chose on each section and I definitely think this is a webiste I can use in my future classroom. The words chosen seemed to really be good for phonics lessons and for breaking up parts of words. I have come to the understanding that as future teachers we will be very busy with making lessons, and having a websites like these will prove very useful when we need resources.
Thank you so much for posting all of those helpful websites. I am thankful to have those as resources. As Katy said I was used to thinking of phonics as being boring, repetitive worksheet type stuff. Now I see the activities we can do and how it can be much more exciting than that. I am glad we can talk about phonics and have these websites because I feel more comfortable teaching it and discussing it. I still worry about how often you can talk about phonics and if we should discuss one particular topic in a week or revisit all the phonics rules several times a week. I feel like short a, long a, long i sounds could all be discussed over the first half of the year. So do we just keep talking about it afterwards? I just worry about boring the students with the same topic.
I know I am not posting this under the correct subject, but I could not find anythign on running records yet on the blog and I really wanted to discuss it now. I just wanted to say that I really like doing running records. They are so fast and convienent. I think it is very important to assess your students reading levels to see if they are improving or not. Running records are the best way to do this, and I want to say thanks for spending time on teaching us how to do this assessmnet skill.
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