Phonics First!

This book of activities gives children practice in learning the various sounds of the alphabet, helping them decode new words as well as build on their knowledge of previously learned words. The activities cover a wide array of topics, including consonant blends and digraphs, vowels, rhyming words, homophones, silent letters, prefixes, suffixes, root works, plurals, syllables, and more. Many of the worksheets engage children in thinking out new words and putting tem in sentence context. Others ask students to select a correct answer form several choices. Some have students working with a partner or using a dictionary to create word lists not found on the worksheet. The words are age-appropriate and the reading selections have been created using the Spache Readability Formula.
These activities can be used in any reading program with children of all ability levels. They provide the extra practice that most children need as they continue to master intermediate reading skills.

Using Consonants, Consonant Blends, and Consonant Digraphs to Form New Words Using Consonants, Consonant Blends, and Consonant Digraphs to Form New Words II
Using Initial Consonants to Form Words in Sentence Context
Selecting Consonant Blend Words and Using Them in Sentence Context
Selecting Consonant Blend Words and Using Them in Sentence Context II
Determining the Hard and Soft Sounds of c and the Soft Sound of g
Determining the Hard and Soft Sounds of c and the Soft Sound of g II
Selecting Consonant Blend or Consonant Digraph Words and Using Them in Sentence Context
Selecting Consonant Digraph Words and Using Them in Sentence Context
Selecting Words with the Same Rime or Suffix and Using Them in Sentence Context
Selecting Words with the Same Rime or Suffix and Using Them in Sentence Context II
Identifying Consonants, Consonant Blends, Consonant Digraphs, Rimes, and Diphthongs
Writing Plurals with s or es
Writing Plurals for Words That End with y
Writing Plurals for Words That End with f or fe
Determining Suffixes Based on Definitions
Determining Prefixes Based on Definitions
Identifying Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words
Identifying Silent Letters in Words
Identifying Silent Letters Missing from Words
Determining Words That Do or Do Not Have Silent Letters
Locating Words with Missing Silent Letters
Identifying Long and Short Sounds in Words with Vowel Digraphs
Locating and Writing Out Contractions
More Practice with Contractions
Working with Syllables--Double Consonant Words
Determining the Number of Syllables in Words
Working with One-, Two-, and Three-Syllable Words
Determining Vowel Sounds of ee and ea Words
Determining the Long, Short, and Regular Sounds of the Letter y
Matching Synonyms
Matching Antonyms
Writing Antonyms and Synonyms
Locating Compound Words
Selecting the Correct Homophones in Sentence Context
Determining the Correct Usage of who's/whose and you're/your
Selecting Definitions for Homographs
Identifying Rhyming Words
Rhyming Definitions (Hinks Pinks) with One-Syllable Words
Rhyming Definitions (Hinks Pinks) with One-Syllable Words II
Locating Words with Long and Short oo Sounds in a Story
Locating Words with the aw Sound in a Story
Locating Words with a Diphthong in a Story
Word Puzzle Definitions
Locating Words with the Schwa ([characters not reproducible]) Sound in a Story
Answer Keys