Building a good foundation for reading skills

Building a good foundation for reading skills is essential. If your students are able to read well from the beginning, it will benefit them in all areas of academics. Take a look at this teaching resource collection of high-frequency words, sight words and CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.
High-frequency words

Grade 3 Most Common Used Words (High Frequency / Sight Words)
Description
Sight words are words that readers recognize automatically (on sight). There is no need to decode these words. In early reading sight words are usually frequently occurring or ‘high frequency’ words. This product includes a booklet, and flash cards for teacher and learner. The booklet includes a list of all the high frequency words the learner should know in the grade and other words that learners should recognize and know such as: days of the week, months of the year, seasons, colours, numbers and positions.
CVC words

CVC - Trash or Treasure Decoding Interactive PDF No Print Game
Description
Use this Trash or Treasure Decoding Interactive PDF No Print Game to review the reading of various phonic patterns.
Directions
Use this activity on your computer, iPad, tablet or interactive whiteboard. It is saved as a PDF and can be viewed on your device using your favourite PDF reader. When you open the PDF, navigate straight from the menu to play the game.
Read the word on the page and click on the Treasure Box if it is a real word or the Trash Can/Rubbish Bin if it is a non-word.
Included in this resource are 20 real CVC words and 20 non-word CVC words arranged in a random order.
This product is fully interactive:
Click the HOME button to easily navigate to and from the Main Menu
Click the SIDE ARROWS to navigate between slides
ANSWER buttons. Click on the correct word. If the incorrect word is chosen you are given the opportunity to try again

CVC sound puzzle pack!
Description
A resource with 25 pages and 50 puzzles that focuses on the ‘a, e, i , o ,u’ sound. This puzzle can be cut and assembled by your students. It is a fun and engaging activity! File Type: PDF (Acrobat) Document File Be sure that you have an application to open this file type before downloading and/or purchasing

CVC middle a short sound
Description
72 activities using the short a sound. Activities can be used from the beginner to the reader. Activites are included for each sound ad ag am an ap at Activities include unscrambling letters to make a word spinning a sound to make a word build a word using cut up card build a word using beginning sounds colouring in all a words hunting for a word only sounding out and rewriting words Completing a sentence by filling in the missing word etc
Sight words

Alphabet & Sight Word Card Game [UNO]
Description
Thank you so much for viewing my "Alphabet & Sight Word Card Game" resource! This packet is designed to offer a FUN and ENGAGING way to practice the alphabet and a selection of words from the Dolch Pre-K Sight Word List. While UNO is originally played with a deck of 108 cards, this set consists of 208 cards. This allows for more variety in the word options, giving you the opportunity to select the words that will better suit your lesson and student needs. You can remove cards that you don't want to use, or play with a bigger deck – allowing the fun to last a little bit longer! Sight Words included: and / big / can / down / find / go / here / here / in / jump / little / make / not / one / play / red / said / the / up / where / yellow / you Also included: - Detailed Game Instructions - Action and Wild Cards with Explanations - 2 Font options - Option with only lowercase, or uppercase & lowercase combined (for the alphabet letters)
