The aim of blending and phonation drills activity is to provide students with opportunities to independently practice and reinforce the skills of additive and phonation blending, enabling them to develop fluency in blending phonemes and enhancing their reading proficiency.
Structured Spelling
The aim of this activity is for students to blend sounds orally, without the visual aid of graphemes. By listening to a sequence of sounds and blending them together their ability to recognise and decode sounds sequentially, which is essential for proficient reading.
Word Chaining
The aim of this activity is to strengthen students' phonemic awareness and word manipulation skills by constructing words using tiles or a whiteboard, then challenging them to transform the original word into a new one by replacing or altering a single sound, thereby reinforcing their ability to recognise and manipulate graphemes within words effectively.
Reading Words with affixes
The aim of this activity is to assist students in reading full words by providing visual support through dots placed underneath each sound, facilitating the blending process and strengthening their ability to decode words independently.
Fluency Games
The aim of the games and activities in this link is to enhance students' fluency in reading single words. Through engaging and interactive exercises, students will strengthen their ability to recognize and decode individual words quickly and accurately, ultimately improving their overall reading fluency.
Morphology Word Families
This lesson helps students build word families by adding the suffixes -ing and -ed to base words. Through hands-on activities, students will explore how suffixes change word meanings (happening now vs. happened before) and practise sorting and spelling words correctly. This lesson strengthens morphological awareness, supporting early reading and writing skills.
Single Word Dictation
Single word dictation activities, without scaffolds, aim to assess students' independent spelling and phonics skills. This approach helps identify areas needing improvement and reinforces learned spelling rules through autonomous application.
Word Formation Fluency
The aim of this activity is to enhance students’ fluency in handwriting by providing opportunities for them to practise forming words in Victorian cursive, thereby improving their accuracy, legibility, and overall handwriting proficiency.
Find the Suffix
In this activity, students will identify suffixes (-ing and -ed) in sentences to build their understanding of how suffixes change word meanings. By recognising suffixes in context, students will strengthen their ability to read, spell, and use word families accurately. This activity supports morphological awareness and helps students apply their knowledge of base words and suffixes in reading and writing.
Encoding Multisyllabic Words
In this activity, students learn to break words into syllables to support accurate spelling. Together, we clap or count the syllables, identify each part (e.g., rain + ing), and write them down step by step. Finally, we blend the syllables smoothly to read the whole word, reinforcing both spelling and pronunciation.s.
Typing Fluency
The aim of this activity is to enhance students’ fluency in word processing by providing opportunities for them to practise typing words on a word processing program, thereby improving their proficiency in both typing accuracy and digital literacy skills.
Heart Word Practice
Heart words encompass irregularly spelled words such as 'said' and 'have.' The aim of this activity is for students to memorize the word as a whole while also understanding its irregular parts
