How to Make Learning Phonics Fun Easy Reading Games for Early Education

How to Make Learning Phonics Fun Easy Reading Games
for Early Education
Mastering letter recognition and sound is easily done with these phonics games focused on learning to read, and best of all, having fun!
Learning something new, like reading, is a huge step for kids and some can tackle grasping the skill with moderate to severe anxiety or stress. It’s important to keep the learning environment stress free, just like it would be for an adult in her work environment, in order to get the best results and retention of the skill. These games can correspond with any phonics lesson plan or curriculum, or stand-alone for simple fun and pleasure with a focus on learning all about phonics.
Phonics File Folder Games
File Folder Games are just one easy, inexpensive way to provide lots of fun and a magnitude of learning experiences. They’re quick to assemble, and more importantly, kids love them!
Learning Simple Words
With beginners, typically the first focus of words are those with the “–at” and “–an” endings. For example: cat, can, rat, ran, pat, pan and so forth. To create this particular game, locate pictures online of each word you wish to focus on. Choose 5 from each ending, for the sake of room available, or make one file folder for “–at” endings and a separate file folder for “–an” endings.
Cut the pictures out and glue them vertically down each side of the folder (an example picture is at the end of the article). With a ruler and a black marker, draw 3 lines for each letter horizontally next to each picture. Now all you need is a theme! Pick your theme, and use a pattern (for instance, acorns for the fall). Print out enough acorns as there are letters needed. With a black marker, write a letter on each acorn, i.e. “B”, “A”, “T”, based on the words you’ve chosen to focus on.
Once you finish all the steps to complete the file folder game, your child is ready to play. This game isn’t just for phonics, but great for spelling as well.
Rhyming File Folder Game
Following the instructions in the File Folder Game article above, prepare your game and this time use pictures that rhyme. Prepare 2 documents on your PC with rows of pictures to fit each page. Some example pictures are cat, dog, can, ring, pig etc. Choose pictures based on your child’s skill level. Paste these documents on the inside of the folder.
Create 2 more documents of their rhyming pictures: hat, log, man, wing (picture of bird with arrow pointing to wing), dig and so forth. Cut out the pictures of these documents for the finishing steps in the instructions.
These are just two examples of how you can create a File Folder Game to correspond with learning phonics. Use your imagination and come up with other ways for variety and to introduce new ways of fun.
Magnet Fishing Phonics Games
The Magnet Fishing Game is another versatile game that can be made for a specific purpose in teaching your child phonics.
Lowercase and Uppercase Phonics Games
Following the instructions in the Magnet Fishing Game article, choose your patterned theme (fishes, lady bugs, stars, Christmas trees, etc). If you want to do the entire alphabet, you will need 52 patterns, otherwise choose which letters you want to concentrate on.
When you’ve finished creating the game, let your child fish out a pattern and find it’s matching pair by fishing again. As your child’s skill level grows, you can begin to encourage making words with the letters she has fished out.
Beginning Sound Phonics Game
With this game, you either use all 26 letters or focus on specific letters you want your child to concentrate on. For each letter, have a matching picture to past on your pattern that begins with that sound. As an example, you would have a pattern with the letter “S” on it, and it’s match would be a pattern with a picture pasted on it of a Sun. Now your child will fish for pictures that have the beginning sound of the letter he caught.
There are several other ways to nurture your child’s ability to master phonics and reading, including using Poster Pockets. These are just a few examples for you and your child to build on while playing and learning at the same time.

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So what can you as a writer do?
You can learn how to write to the point so your article does not wander all over the place and is therefore easy to track. That means you must learn how to express yourself in concise language. Writing concisely is a subject by itself and I shall cover that at length in another article.
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READING TIPS FOR PARENTS
Make real-life connections with the book by talking about things your child has done that are similar to
those in the book.
Stop your child every few pages and ask him or her to tell you what has been read.
For non-fiction books, have your child share three things he or she learned about the topic.