FREE R Controlled Vowels Posters! Free R Controlled Vowels Posters! Visual cues often help our young readers learn phonics rules. Display these posters in your classroom or within your small group intervention area. Post around the classroom or print and send them home with your students ar, er, ir, or, and ur are all here! The R-Controlled Vowel Posters can be downloaded for FREE in my online Teachers Pay Teachers store. Teaching r-controlled vowels When a vowel is followed by an r, the r changes the sound that the vowel makes.  That vowel is called an r-controlled vowel.  Sometimes teachers refer to the “r” as the “bossy r” because the r “bosses” the vowel to make a new sound.  When

ir er ur activities! When teaching a phonics skill it’s often helpful to use a keyword and picture to help the students remember the sound to the letter combinations. For the ir er ur activities in the phonics bundle, my fabulous artist created “bird” themed borders and game boards and they turned out absolutely adorable! This phonics bundle contains 11 hands-on activities for teaching and practicing the ir/er/ur r-controlled vowels. The activities are great for either small group instruction or for activities within your independent literacy centers. Here’s a quick peek at several of the activities in this bundle. ir er ur free word list download Of course, when teaching a skill, it’s always helpful to have a word list

oi oy Diphthongs Activities When teaching a phonics skill it’s often helpful to use a keyword and picture to help the students remember the sound to the letter combinations. For the oi oy diphthongs phonics bundle, my fabulous artist created “pig” themed borders and game boards and they turned out absolutely adorable! I just love them and all of the oi oy diphthong activities! This phonics bundle contains 11 hands-on activities for teaching and practicing the oi/oy diphthongs. The activities are great for either small group instruction or for activities within your independent literacy centers. Here’s a quick peek at several of the activities in this bundle. oi oy word list Of course, when teaching a skill, it’s always helpful

File Folder Phonics Teaching Plurals File folder phonics teaching plurals is tons of fun for our first graders! Just click the following link to download this free poster: Plurals Poster Plurals are simply a grammatical marker that tells the listener or reader that there is more than one of something (like frogs or bugs). Plural nouns are commonly found in our beginning texts so it’s important that our young students learn to decode and correctly write words containing plural forms. For our beginning readers and writers we start with teaching three spelling rules (add -s, add -es, and then -ies). We then introduce adding of -ves when a word end in “f” or “fe”.  Feel free to download the FREE

Teaching Wild Old Words So what are “Wild Old Words”?  Wild Old Words are “rule breaker” words.  Students are taught early on that a single vowel in a one-syllable word is short, however, there is a small group of words that breaks that rule. These words are called Wild Old Words. It’s helpful when teaching wild old words to make it fun! They are pretty common words, so if our students can recognize them right away, it’ll help them become fluent readers. Wild Old Words Posters When the vowels “i” and “o” are in a one-syllable word that ends in “ld”, “nd”, “st”, or “lt” sometimes the vowel says it’s long name. There are a few examples below. If you’d