Week-BY-Week Phonics Packets

Designed for independent, small group, or home work, these packets are practically perfect phonics reinforcement activities for the home school. Each packet targets a specific skill, providing worksheets for five days for each of 30 weeks. After a review of letters, rhyming words and other basic phonics concepts are covered: short vowels, final e, vowel teams (ai/ay, ea/ee, oa/oe/ow), variant vowels (oo, ou/ow, r-controlled), consonant clusters (l/r/s blends), consonant digraphs (sh/wh, ch/th), and letters with two sounds (c, g). Reproducible for the classroom, the idea is to have worksheets that can be handed to a student weekly: one worksheet completed daily. Frankly, given the age level of the skills, it's hard to imagine much independent work being done in a classroom setting but in a home school? Yes, I think it would work. The worksheets are brief; activities are similar from week to week; and the layout is straightforward with a weekly checklist and clear labeling. Illustrations are realistic and easily identifiable. There is no answer key, I'm assuming, because one is just not needed at this level. These could be used for reinforcement whenever they were needed but represent skills usually taught in K and/or 1st grade. ~ Janice