30 Independent Practice Packets That Help Children Learn Key Phonics Skills and Set the Stage for Reading Success
These easy-to-manage, ready-to-reproduce practice packets are a perfect way to target the phonics skills children need to master. Children can work through the packets independently and at their own pace.
- Covers letter-sound relationships, beginning and ending consonants, short vowels, long vowel patterns, phonograms, variant vowels, consonant clusters and digraphs, word structure, and more
- Fun formats include word-shape recognition puzzles, fill-in rhymes and stories, word searches, and more
- Fosters independent learning
- Great classroom management tool
- Effective for second language learners and RTI instruction
- Flexible and easy to use in class or as homework
Joan Novelli, a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and editor with Scholastic Inc., has 20 years experience in educational publishing. She has written numerous books for Scholastic including Easy-to-Make Books That Target Specific Reading Needs (co-author), Shoe Box Learning Centers: Phonics, Teaching With Favorite Cynthia Rylant Books, Building Foundations in Math: Shapes, and 40 Sensational Sight Word Games. Joan is co-owner of On the Ball Productions, a company that develops educational products for teachers and kids. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with her son.
Holly Grundon, a former art director for Scholastic Inc., has 20 years experience in the design field. She has designed more than a hundred books for Scholastic Teaching Resources, including the Shoe Box Learning Center series and the Big Book of Pocket Chart Poems: ABC’s and 123’s. Holly is co-owner of On the Ball Productions, a company that creates educational products for teachers and kids. She lives in Lincoln, Vermont with her husband and their children.