To use: Cut out the image cards and tape them around your classroom! If you laminate these, you’ll be able to use them again. Students will each get their own recording sheet (or one to share with a partner). Students will walk around the room and find each numbered card – they do not have to go in order. When they find a card, they will look at the picture and tap the sounds in the word (if necessary). Then, they will write the word to the best of their ability on the matching line on their recording sheet.
Students continue until they find all the images around the room.
*I always have students complete this as a silent or whisper-level activity as they walk around the room!*
These types of activities get students up and moving while practicing important phonics skills! They’re also a great informal assessment to see how well your students are retaining the phonics knowledge you’re teaching them and you can use these to decide which concepts to re-teach.
There are 35 different write the room activities for the following skills:
- CVC, a
- CVC, e
- CVC, i
- CVC, o
- CVC, u
- mixed CVC
- sh
- ch
- th
- ck
- mixed digraphs
- s-blends
- l-blends
- r-blends
- mixed blends
- silent e, a
- silent e, i
- silent e, o
- silent e, u
- mixed silent e
- ee/ea
- ai/ay
- ow/oa
- ie/igh
- ui/ue
- ar
- or
- ir/er/ur
- mixed r-controlled
- oy/oi
- au/aw
- ow/ou
- sounds of oo
- Floss rule
- glued sounds (ng/nk)
