Free eBooks | Videos | Set 1 resources | Set 2 resources | Set 3 resources | Kits and flashcards to use at home Read Write Inc. Phonics They read these words over and over, off the IWB and from their books - but it was still only about 20 different words) Bryony Dorrans (left) uses big plastic folders with tabs to organise their Green Word Cards and Picture Sounds Cards, whilst Jane Victoria (middle) and Claire Louise (right) use boxes with tabs to arrange their nonsense words, Speed Sound Cards, Red Words and Picture Sounds Cards. I think RWI is better for reading then writing, but that's not surprising, reading has to precede writing.

Use a permanent marker and a cookie sheet to create a t-chart. Students can sort the letters by determining if they have holes or no holes. Use a permanent marker and a cookie sheet to create a t-chart. Students can sort letters “in my name/not in my name”. Place a sun-bleached letter matching mat on cookie sheet and invite children to match the letters to the correct spaces.

Letters and Sounds support from Oxford

Put magnetic letters in a pencil pouch to make a personalized name kit for each child that they can use to spell their names on cookie sheets or at home on the fridge. As a classroom teacher and homeschooling mom, I am always looking for fun, hands-on activities for my kids. Using magnetic letters is an interactive way for children to practice the things that they are learning. You can use them in independent literacy centers, small groups, or even enrichment activities for early finishers. These magnetic letters are inexpensive to make too so you can send them home with your students for extra practice. Using magnetic letters daily can help young children in preschool or kindergarten begin to internalize the shape and feel of letters. This internalization builds alphabet fluency, which is a predictor of future reading success.

there are lots of different writing exercises: hold a sentence, where students have to hold a sentence from the book in their head and write it, edit a sentence, build a sentence, and finally writing the story, which is their version of the story written independently and prompted by pictures (although recently the books have changed so this section has changed slightly). As they move up the programme through the different levels the writing exercises are freer, less structured. Letter Matching– During literacy centers, your kids can practice matching capital and lowercase letters using these magnetic letters and cookie sheet.You know you have oodles of magnetic letters stashed away in your closet, or maybe they’re all over the floor of your classroom. Either way, we all have a set ( or two, or three) of magnetic letters that are gathering dust somewhere.