Teaching reading doesn’t have to be so hard!
Are you tired of:
searching for decodable readers that align with your curriculum?
trying to figure out how to connect your phonics instruction to authentic reading?
scouring the internet looking for text that meets the needs of all of your learners?
Does this sound familiar?
- You teach a phonics lesson yet students don’t apply what they’ve learned to their reading and writing.
- You can’t find a decodable for a specific skill you taught.
- You spend way too much time creating extra practice for your ELL’s or high readers.
- You try to pair phonemic awareness and phonics practice into your reading lesson but you are not sure you did it right.
- You know your beginning readers need to spend more time practicing what you’ve taught but you just don’t have the resources.
- You spend hours looking for resources that allow students to explicitly practice the phonics skill they are working on in context?
Here’s the thing:
Teaching beginning readers doesn’t have to be complicated and time consuming.
Imagine having teacher-tested and approved reading resources at your fingertips in a familiar format so your students will be independent, confident, and successful.
Introducing Phonics Mats
phonics-based decodable text for students to decode and practice targeted phonics skills.
mats for cvc words, digraphs, blends, glued sounds, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and cvce words
166 mats for students to practice phonics, phonemic awareness, reading fluency, and reading comprehension
The product provides a comprehensive set of decodable readers and phonics activity mats, offering teachers a no-prep, ready-made resource that covers a range of phonics skills and reading levels. This saves time and energy searching for materials from multiple sources. The best part: because of the consistent format, your students will know what to do and be independent and successful!
What’s Included
- 166 phonics mats for short vowels, digraphs, blends, glued sounds, silent e, r-controlled vowels, and diphthongs
- Mats come in two different formats to work on phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, reading comprehension, blending, and segmenting phonemes
- Bonus of ten extra decodable passages
- Use whole group, small group, independent practice, homework, intervention, and assessment
- Provides hours of practice that our beginning readers need in order to solidify their learning and become proficient readers
Benefits of Phonics Mats
- Practice! Research shows as much as 80% of the time in a primary classroom should be practicing what they’ve learned. Our students need to be practicing using systematic and effective resources, like Phonics Mats.
- Differentiation made easy: With a bundle of decodable readers with a range of learning targets, teachers can easily differentiate instruction based on their students’ abilities.
- Skill reinforcement: The inclusion of phonics activity mats in your classroom allows teachers to reinforce phonics skills in a hands-on and interactive way.
- Use as an assessment: Use as a formative assessment mid-teaching or as a summative assessment at the end of a unit. These are a great way to see if learning has transferred to authentic reading!
- Perfect for English Language Learners: These targeted phonics mats with short, snappy decodable text work wonders with your students who are learning English.
- Quick and effective: Once students get a hang of the format, they can finish their mat in a timely manner. I let my students read them to classmates for extra practice.
- Helps with lack of resources: I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for extra decodables for my students. With 166 mats, you will have 166 new reading resources.
- Reading fluency: Students need all the fluency practice they can get. My students love to put completed Phonics Mats in their book boxes and read them during independent or buddy reading.
- Engaging: These mats provide a variety of ways to practice phonics which primary students find very engaging so they are motivated to complete them.
Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what other teachers had to say about Phonics Mats:
Watch as your students master phonics skills and become strong, confident readers!