Phonics Games | Silent Letters | Literacy Centers for 1st Grade Phonics

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Looking for fun phonics activities? These digraphs phonics games will help your students master decoding words with silent letters while building a solid foundation in 1st grade reading!

Following the principles of Structured Literacy and the Science of Reading, this NO-PREP word work for silent letters is just what you need for your reading centers, phonics centers, phonics intervention, or other decoding practice. This is perfect for digraphs review in 2nd grade reading centers, too!

Save your planning time AND increase student engagement with phonics review games! Digital resources provide busy teachers with an excellent alternative to phonics worksheets, especially given how tech savvy our students are now.  

What You Need to Know Right Now!

• Focused Phonics Review

• Silent Letters – KN, WR, MB, GN

• high frequency words (some refer to these as sight words)

• 30 interactive Google Slides

• No Prep – Click and Go!

• Students & Teachers LOVE them!

• Works best with Google Classroom for independent practice

Word Work Activities include:

• Word Building with letter tiles – Spell words with silent letters

• Matching words to pictures – Match words to correct picture

• Missing letters from words – Write beginning, middle, & ending sounds of words 

• Sentence building with word tiles – Unscramble the sentence

• Decodable passage – Read decodable passage and mark silent letters

• Sound puzzles – Solve puzzles based on onset-rime

• Word building puzzles – Unscramble the words

• Sound sort – Sort images and words by sound

• Word ladder – Fill in the beginning, middle, and ending sound of words 

• Picture graph – Create a graph using icons representing the silent letters

• Word search – Find and mark silent letters in the puzzle

• Creative writing – Write sentences and/or stories using silent letters

Recommended Ways to Use these Phonics Activities:

• Independent Work

• Literacy Stations

• Differentiation

• Choice Boards

• Whole Group Instruction

• Reading Groups

• Extra Practice

• Early Finishers

• 1:1 with the Teacher or Tutor

• Intervention

• RTI / MTSS

• Phonics Homework

You will get: A downloadable pdf file that includes links to make a copy of both the student version and answer key. You’ll want to ensure that you’re logged in to the Google account in which you plan to use the resource.

You will need: Internet access, a Google account,  & a Google Classroom™️ (recommended, but not required)

Your students will need: Access to tablet or computer, Internet access, & a Google account

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