Interactive Phonics Mats®-All Year Bundle

Interactive Phonics Mats® are an original idea from Kadeen@KadeenTeaches. KadeenTeaches Phonics and Reading Comprehension Mats are a fun way for students to engage with what they have been learning.

I was looking for a way to get my students engaged and practicing their phonetic skills in their centers over and over. That's when I came up with the idea for the phonics mats!

These phonics mats helped my students read words in context, and they especially worked well for my ELL students. I saw a lot of improvement. The KadeenTeaches Phonics Mats have been tested in my own classroom as well as the classrooms of partner teachers. The result? They're a hit with students and teachers!

KadeenTeaches Interactive Phonics Mats® are a sure way to get your students excited about learning their sounds and reading. Check out the preview to get a better picture of what you are purchasing. Your comprehension station is set for the year with these phonics mats. This tool is also differentiated for your beginning readers and includes picture help. Great for reading comprehension.

NOTE: These take a bit of time to put together if you are prepping the mats for centers. You may want to have one really helpful student help you cut or add the Velcro dots to save time.

Each mat has 6 words to choose from. Not every mat will have all 6 words used. Some mats will use only 5 or 4 words; therefore, you will have extra pieces. Toss those if you are using the black and white outlines, or leave them on the mats if you are using the actual mats. It is created that way, so students are challenged to chose the correct word and to really think about the sentences. Not all the mats are stories that flow; some will be simple sentences that are not related to each other.

While this phonics tool was specifically created for first grade, I have seen purchases for kindergarten and grades above first. After school teachers have also been able to use the phonics mats for their programs. You are practicing fluency, decoding, comprehension, and phonics all in one.

It's best to introduce and model how to do the activities before sending students to work on them independently.It is best to do the ones with pictures first then send them off with the mats to centers for practice to mastery. These phonics mats are made to be practice in addition to what you are already teaching or have already taught. They should only be used independently after you already have taught the skills and use. These phonics mats are perfect for first grade. Not all words will be cvc. Please note that new vocabulary will be introduced within the phonics mats in addition to the sound being practiced. These phonics mats are for reading fluency practice. Please take a careful look at the preview and see if these will be too easy, too difficult, or just right for your students. These phonics mats are also self storage mats, so no searching for the pieces--they are stored right on the mats!

Check out how they are used in my classroom PHONICS FUN BLOG POST.

This is a huge phonics bundle, which will include interactive phonics based reading comprehension mats for all the phonetic sounds usually taught in first grade. If you need a sound that is not included, email me at kadeenteaches@gmail.com, and I will do my best to add one for you.

The phonics mat bundle will grow with different phonics sounds that students will learn throughout the year. As each file is added, you will be notified. The file now includes the word family mats, digraph mats, blends, long vowels, diphthongs, r controlled, and more. A bonus phonics mat bundle will be added.

This is a zipped file. Please make sure you have the capabilities to download zipped files. In this super phonics mat bundle you will get the phonics mats, stories with help and stories with no help for differentiation. This zip file will be large. These are great for comprehension, fluency, centers, and whatever else you may need. This is an awesome way for your students to put in practice the phonics sounds they have been learning. Just place them in your independent station after you have done a couple with them and have shown them how it all works.

• PHONICS MATS- CVC WORD FAMILIES
• PHONICS MATS FOR BLENDS
• PHONICS MATS FOR DIGRAPHS
• PHONICS MATS FOR LONG VOWEL
• PHONICS MATS FOR R CONTROLLED
• PHONICS MATS FOR DIPHTHONGS
• PHONICS BONUS MATS

Questions? Ask them below or email me at kadeenteaches@gmail.com.

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