One of the activities I do with my small groups and/or tutorials is making and writing words. A few years ago my district bought each first grade teacher an official Making and Writing Words kit. However, the kit had many typos and mistakes. So I used it as a guide to help me create my own documents for each phonics skill.
I used to have this activity be the whole time for my small group - one day we focused on the phonics skill and the other days we did guided reading. Next year I will try to do a phonics skill, guided reading, and another skill in each small group. In order to do that I will have to make these much shorter. My plan is to have the kids do this activity as the phonics warm up for 3 days - half the words on one day, the next half on the second day, and the sorting / rhyming activity on the third day. We'll see how that goes...
I have the letter cards already bagged for each student. Back when I first began teaching we used the Four Block model which is where these letter cards came from. For that you had to have a set of letter cards for each student - yikes!
It specifies which letters you need at the top of each page I created. I would recommend bagging them each week the first year and loving yourself for having it ready for the rest of your life after that. I think I bought 3 sets of the letter cards from Teacher's Tools. The letter cards are made by Carson Dellosa so you should be able to find them in lots of stores/online.
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