(Full Show Notes Here) When preparing a phonics lesson, we need to be sure we're conducting it in three parts: a warm-up, explicit teaching, and application of skills. Below, you'll find the first part of the lesson (the warm-up) and its four parts: a visual drill, an auditory drill, a blending drill, and a vowel intensive.

Helpful Phonics Resources:

• Phonics Reading Roadmap: phonics instruction with the science of reading in mind. Learn how to teach systematic and explicit phonics instruction.

• Kindergarten Roadmap: focus on letter sounds and phonemic awareness, and be equipped with tools you'll use in your small group lessons that will encourage phonics and decoding

• Phonics Lessons & Activities MEGA Bundle: includes a scope and sequence, blank templates, phonemic awareness warm-ups, drill cards, sentence pyramids, and so, so much more.

• Blog Posts:

• 5 Engaging Phonics Activities

• A Deeper Look at Phonics

• Does Phonemic Awareness Belong in Your Phonics Lesson?

• Orthographic Mapping