Description
Looking for engaging and hands-on short vowel center activities and games to help teach phonics skills? This pack includes over 12 simple and fun phonics activities to practice identifying word families and isolating middle sounds, or medial sounds in a CVC word.
Practice middle sounds and word families with your students in a whole group or small group setting with these interactive phonics center games and activities. They are easy for Kindergarten or First Grade students to play together in a group or work independently to practice previously learned phonics skills.
Here's what you'll get:
- Short Vowel/Middle Sound Center activities including:
- Middle Sound Picture Sort
- Word Family Picture Sort
- Word Family Memory Match
- Onset and Rime Puzzles
- Middle Sounds Board Game
- Middle Sounds Spin and Cover
- Word Family Clip Cards
- Middle Sound Clip It Wheels
- Middle Sound Dry Erase Cards
- Sensory Bin Word Family Hunt
- Middle Sound Magnet Mats
- Middle Sound Roll and Read
All of these short vowel center activities can be printed in color or black and white. Each activity or game has step-by-step printable directions with in-action pictures, as well as a picture answer key so you know what all the pictures are!
Using Hands-on Activities during Centers
Each center activity was designed to add fine motor practice, hands-on learning, and visual discrimination to help your students practice various phonics and phonemic awareness skills.
A hands-on activity is any activity where children are using their hands to learn. “Hands-on activities let the students' minds grow and learn based on the experiences and the environment they are exposed to. ELLs learn while discussing, investigating, creating, and discovering with other students. As the students become familiar with the subject they are learning, they begin to make decisions, requiring less teacher support and allowing more interactive learning experiences to occur (Cooperstein & Kocevar-Weidinger, 2004).”
Hands-on activities are the number one activity that I always use in my ELA centers for this very reason. Plus, hands-on activities are proven to be highly engaging, strengthen fine motor skills, and hold students attention longer than other activities. Read more about using hands-on, tactile activities here: How to Use Hands-On Activities for ELA Centers.
Using Interactive Games during Centers
As teachers, we are always trying to find engaging phonics games to play during ELA centers. Games are a great way to encourage students to work as a team, taking turns, problem solving, and encouraging each other. By playing these games they won't even realize they are learning!
Your students will love practicing medial vowels with these highly engaging and fun phonics centers. Check out how I use some of these centers here: Four Engaging Phonics Games to Play in Centers
Simple, yet engaging! The variety of these low-prep centers allow you to use these throughout the year to continually review those phonics skills. You can also use these centers as a whole group lesson activity, during small groups, as an early finisher task, or morning work.
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Purchase the Kindergarten Short Vowels and Middle Sounds Phonics Unit to get these 12 center activities, Middle Sounds Worksheets pack, PLUS 5 weeks of Short Vowels and Word Families lesson plans, anchor charts, assessments, and more!
These centers are part of the SFK Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum– a yearlong done-for-you phonics bundle that includes lesson plans, phonemic awareness warm-ups, centers, worksheets, assessments, teaching aids, anchor charts, and more! Learn more about the Phonics Curriculum here.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This resource was incredible for me this year. I loved the brightness of the illustrations. Great for independent centers or small group” -Natalia
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “These center activities were perfect for helping my students with recognizing and identifying medial sounds.” -Sara A.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I love using this in my guided reading time! They are hands-on so students love it!” -Shari O.
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