Building phonological awareness and phonics skills is crucial for children learning to read. Lots of practice needs to happen and it should be enjoyable. Enter this word-building activity with a garden theme. It’s perfect for emergent readers.
Build a Garden Word Building Ladder
Directions
-Print the garden sheets. Laminate for durability if desired.
-Gather a dry-erase marker and eraser if using on laminated sheets and/or letter tiles.
Students start at the bottom of the garden. Identify the image. Stretch out the word and determine the beginning, medial, and ending sounds.
Students can then either build the word with letter titles and/or write the word next to the image in the garden plot.
Continue up the garden plot repeating the same procedure.
Short a words: rat, cat, can, fan, pan, jam
Short e words: hen, pen, bed, net, pet, gem
Short i words: fin, lip, dig, pig, sit, six
Short o words: dog, log, pot, dot, fox, box
Short u words: cup, tub, bus, bug, nut, gum
More Word-Building Activities
Keep the cvc learning going with these ideas.
CVC Activities for Beginning Readers
Gardening Reads to Enjoy
Enjoy these read-alouds to fit the gardening theme.
See the list of gardening books here.—> Gardening Books for Kids
I also have a list of counting books in the garden.—> Counting Books in the Garden
Of course, there are flower gardens too.—> Books About Flowers for Kids
Printable Build a Garden Word Building Idea
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Happy learning!