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Syllable Division Posters

Syllable Division Posters

Grab 10 syllable division posters to help even struggling readers decode unfamiliar, multisyllabic words.

Fun animal rules make it easier for students to remember where to create syllable divisions. Breaking words into smaller pieces makes them more manageable and helps students determine vowel sounds.

These playful, colorful posters are the perfect visual reminders for your classroom walls or literacy centers. Add a copy of the Syllable Division Posters to your cart to give your students another tool in their decoding tool belt!

Word Lists for 6 Syllable Types

Word Lists for 6 Syllable Types

These syllable lists are full of words that align with each of the 6 types of syllables. Teaching students about the 6 different types of syllables helps them chunk longer words into manageable parts so they can read them correctly.

These lists will help you make the 6 different syllable types clear for kids without having to spend time searching for words. Save time and sanity with this powerful phonics tool!

Syllable Segmenting Centers

Syllable Segmenting Centers

Help kids build strong pre-reading skills with a batch of motivating syllable segmenting games. The activities are great to use during guided reading, literacy centers or small group work in preschool or kindergarten.

 

INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:

–> 27 clip cards practicing 1, 2 and 3 syllable words

–> A kinesthetic (active) syllable sort with 52 word cards

–> A black and white syllable sort with 14 words

 

The pack is a perfect compliment to our Rhyming Pack and Phonemic Awareness Elkonin Boxes!

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Syllable Cookie Jar Sort

Syllable Cookie Jar Sort

When kids learn how to break words into syllables, they take a big step toward reading.  Your kids are sure to love learning syllables with these cookie jar syllable sorts! Snag your set below and then request an invite to our 4 week course, The Reading Roadmap, so you can get the proven, ready-to-deploy system for…

Phonics Toolkit Volume 3

Phonics Toolkit Volume 3

Need an easier way to teach phonics in First or Second Grade? Your teaching dream is coming true because the Phonics Toolkit gives you *everything* you need in one simple download:

→ Step-by-step lesson plans for 25 different phonics skills that make it easy to teach students everything from alternate spellings through vowel teams. Just flip to the page and read through each step!

→ 50 ready-to-use literacy centers that make it fun for kids to practice each of the phonics skills. Hit “print,” and you’re ready to play.

→ Print-and-go reading passages that align with each lesson so you can stop time-sucking hunts for follow up practice material.

 

→ Quick phonics assessments that make it easy to pinpoint the skills each student needs to learn next. (They come in print AND digital so you can pick your favorite!)

→ Sound maps that help children memorize words that include each phonics skill in as little as 5 exposures.

…. And more!

17 Spelling Rule Posters

17 Spelling Rule Posters

Grab our comprehensive set of 17 spelling rule posters – the must-have tool for supercharging your students’ learning. The eye-catching posters make spelling rules easier to grasp and remember for kids. The bundle is perfect to use with whole groups, small groups, or 1:1 tutoring.

 

EASILY TEACH:

 

  • The 7 jobs of silent E
  • Ghost letter digraphs (KN, WR, GN, MB)
  • The floss rule (doubling F, L, S, Z)
  • Doubling rule (doubling the consonant before adding an ending)
  • When to spell /ow/ OU or OW
  • When to spell an initial /k/ sound with C or K
  • The silent L rule
  • The two ending sounds of Y
  • Other sounds of Y
  • Whether to spell the ending /ch/ sound with TCH or CH
  • Plural endings (ES or S)
  • How to spell two-letter vowel sounds
  • When S says /s/ or /z/ at the end of a word
  • When C and G make their hard and soft sound
  • Vowel sounds with W
  • Long vowel sounds
  • Closed syllable exceptions
Reading Assessment Bundle

Reading Assessment Bundle

Level up your reading instruction with these powerful phonics and phonological awareness assessments that makes it quick and easy to pinpoint each student’s needs and strengths. Assessing students’ reading skills is like turning on the lights in a dark room – suddenly you can see all of the spots that need a little extra TLC…
 
When you discover that students need to work on letter sounds, you can practice it…
 
If you find that kids are struggling with phoneme isolation, you can teach them…
 
Identifying any holes in your students’ reading skills is the first step toward filling those holes so they can get big, fast reading results. And these ready-to-use phonics and phonological awareness assessments make that quick and easy!
 
The phonics and phonological awareness assessments test 30 different skills and provides space to perform the assessments 3 times a year so you can easily track student growth over time. And to make sure you have everything you need in one spot, the forms includes simple scripts in each section so you know exactly what to say PLUS note-taking space where you can record general comments, strengths, needs, and follow-up plans.
 
When you use these reading assessments to track data, writing report cards, sharing students’ growth at parent-teacher conferences, and sorting kids into small groups feels easy and purposeful.
Phonological Awareness Assessment

Phonological Awareness Assessment

Use this phonological awareness assessment to quickly identify students’ phonological awareness needs and strengths so you can differentiate your instruction and give students exactly what they need. This ready-to-use assessment will quickly pinpoint what students have already learned AND what they need to work on next.
 
The phonological awareness assessment tests 12 different skills and provides space to perform the assessment 3 times a year so you can easily track student growth over time. And to make sure you have everything you need in one spot, the form includes simple scripts in each section so you know exactly what to say PLUS note-taking space where you can record general comments, strengths, needs, and follow-up plans.
 
When you use this phonological awareness assessment to track data, writing report cards, sharing students’ growth at parent-teacher conferences, and sorting kids into small groups feels easy and purposeful.
Phonics Toolkit

Phonics Toolkit

Need an easier way to teach phonics in Pre-K, Kindergarten, First, or Second Grade? The Phonics Toolkit is your teaching dream come true because it gives you *everything* you need in one simple download:

→ Step-by-step lesson plans for 128 different phonics skills that make it easy to teach students everything from the very first letter sound /m/ through complicated spelling patterns like the trigraph -TCH. Just flip to the page and read through each step!

→ 267 ready-to-use literacy centers that make it fun for kids to practice each of the phonics skills. Hit “print,” and you’re ready to play.

→ Print-and-go reading passages that align with each lesson so you can stop time-sucking hunts for follow up practice material.

→ Quick phonics assessments that make it easy to pinpoint the skills each student needs to learn next. (They come in print AND digital so you can pick your favorite!)

→ Sound maps that help children memorize words that include each phonics skill in as little as 5 exposures.

→ Playful handwriting activity sheets that make it fun to work on letter formation.

…. And more!

The 7 Jobs of Silent E

The 7 Jobs of Silent E

Did you know that the silent E is an extremely busy letter? It has SEVEN jobs! And somehow, the silent E also finds time to make it difficult for struggling readers to learn it. But here’s a handy way to start making things finally click for kids… Teach students that the silent E is a sidekick. Just like…

What is Phonological Awareness?

What is Phonological Awareness?

The term “phonological awareness” gets thrown around a lot these days because science of reading research has proven that it’s the key to preventing many reading difficulties. But what is phonological awareness? And how often should students practice it? Find all the answers below and then hop over to grab a year’s worth of no…

Phonological Awareness Daily Warm Ups

Phonological Awareness Daily Warm Ups

The science of reading has proven that elementary students need to practice phonological awareness every. single. school. day. And these phonological awareness warm ups make it so quick and easy! Just hit print and you’ll be planned and prepped for AN ENTIRE YEAR. Your students will build a rock solid foundation of skills in just 5 playful minutes a day.

BUILD 11 PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILLS:

• Sentence segmenting

• Syllable segmenting

• Onset-rime

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Phonemic awareness

• Isolating phonemes

• Blending phonemes

• Adding phonemes

• Deleting phonemes

• Segmenting phonemes

Floss Rule Puzzles

Floss Rule Puzzles

Do you know the floss rule yet? When the sounds /f/ /s/ /l/ or /z/ come at the end of a one-syllable word, they’re written with a double consonant. See some examples and then grab this batch of floss rule puzzles to make practicing it fun for kids! The Floss Rule Why do some words…

Magic E Pop It Center

Magic E Pop It Center

Did you know that the magic E has SEVEN different jobs? Yep, it’s true! And learning them makes it SO MUCH easier to help students read because you can finally explain the rules behind spelling patterns. See the seven different silent E rules below and then snag a copy of a playful magic E pop…

Word Family Mats

Word Family Mats

Fun fact: Did you know that every word in English has a vowel? In fact, every SYLLABLE in English has a vowel. So why is that such a big deal? Well, kids learn to read middle vowels in CVC words AFTER they learn to read those ending consonants. For instance, a new reader might see…

Free Blend Posters and Dice

Free Blend Posters and Dice

These free blend posters and dice are a great visual way to teach blends like CR-, GL- and SK-. The posters are great as a classroom display or flashcards, and the dice provide an engaging way for children to think of words that begin with each blend.  Also included is a chart of blend examples!…

First Grade Centers

First Grade Centers

If you’re looking for first grade centers your students will beg to repeat, you’ve come to the right spot! Playdough to Plato is all-in on helping you save time, stay inspired and get bigger teaching results so we pulled together some of our favorite first grade centers in one spot right here. Just click one…

Kindergarten Centers

Kindergarten Centers

If you’re looking for kindergarten centers your students will beg to repeat, you’ve come to the right spot! Playdough to Plato is all-in on helping you save time, stay inspired and get bigger teaching results so we pulled together some of our favorite kindergarten centers in one spot right here. Just click one of the…

Pre-Kindergarten Centers

Pre-Kindergarten Centers

If you’re looking for pre-kindergarten centers your students will beg to repeat, you’ve come to the right spot! Playdough to Plato is all-in on helping you save time, stay inspired and get bigger teaching results so we pulled together some of our favorite pre-kindergarten centers in one spot right here. Your students will love switching…

Short Vowel Word Families

Short Vowel Word Families

Fun fact… Did you know that every word in English has a vowel?  In fact, every SYLLABLE in English has a vowel.  So why is that such a big deal? Well… Kids learn to read middle vowels in CVC words AFTER they learn to read those ending consonants.  For instance, a new reader might see…

Graph of the Week

Graph of the Week

Graphs of the week are a valuable way to teach students how to create, read and analyze graphs.

This mega bundle provides 5 pocket chart graphs for each month so kids can practice data analysis all year long.

They’re great to use as morning work or quick whole group lessons!

 

INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:

–> EDITABLE student cards that make it easy to print personalized pocket chart cards for every child in class.

–> 5 pocket chart graphs for each month.

–> 5 follow up record sheets for each month.

Ladybug Blog Hop

Ladybug Blog Hop

Looking for fun ladybug activities? The blogs listed below give you everything you could need! After you’re done exploring, then hop over to become a VIP Plato Pack member so you can get all of the tools, strategies and support you need to reach ALL of your learners. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT Ladybug Syllable Sort…

Our Instagram Reel

Our Instagram Reel

Welcome Instagram friends! This is the place to find all of our latest posts in one spot. Simply scroll down and click on the activity you’re searching for – our newest posts are on top. Spring STEM Challenges in our shop // on Teachers Pay Teachers 3D Shape Puzzles Sticky Ice Rainbow Digraph Puzzles Egg…

Word Work Bundle

Word Work Bundle

BUNDLE AND SAVE! Add HUNDREDS of motivating word work stations to your collection so you can easily differentiate your literacy centers for a variety of reading levels. Print one center for students who are practice letter sounds, pull another center for kids who are working on blends…

The Word Work Bundle includes ALL of my phonics and sight word packs… including all of the EDITABLE ones… so you have everything you need in one spot.

It’s tailor-made for preschool, kindergarten and first grade teachers.

 

INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:

The MEGA bundle includes 450+ centers practicing sight words and phonics skills:

–> Rhyming

–> Syllable segmenting

–> Names

–> Alphabet letter names and sounds

–> Beginning sounds

–> Short vowels

–> CVC words

–> Beginning digraphs

–> Ending digraphs

–> Beginning blends

–> Ending blends

–> Vowel teams

–> Magic E words

–> Diphthongs

–> R-controlled vowels

–> Compound words

–> Sight Words

–> Reading fluency

Beats on the Body Game

Beats on the Body Game

Looking for a fun, hands-on way to teach kids how to break words into syllables?! In this activity, children tap their hand, then elbow and shoulder as they break a word into parts – an important skill that helps them get ready for reading later. The game is particularly effective because children are using different parts of…