Word Mapping Centers Consonant Blends Digraphs

Description

Are you looking for some high-quality Science of Reading aligned literacy center ideas? If so, these consonant blends and digraph self-checking task cards and word mapping sheets are for you!

These self-correcting task cards with REAL pictures are a fun and effective way for your students or child to practice phoneme-grapheme mapping!

Did you know that it can take between 5-500 repetitions to memorize a word? Research has found time and time again that our brains do not store words based on visual shape! When students practice matching the individual sounds in words to the symbols that represent those sounds (e.g., phoneme/grapheme correspondences) they are promoting and strengthening a process in their brain called orthographic mapping. According to research, this is how our brains store words. In fact, orthographic mapping techniques dramatically increase the rate at which students master the sound symbol relationships in words. It usually only takes between 1-4 repetitions of mapping a word before that word is permanently stored for later retrieval.

This set includes:

• Over 120 self-checking task cards with consonant blends, digraphs and short vowels
• All cards contain REAL pictures! The vocabulary development from using these cards alone is AMAZING!
• 9 different orthographic mapping record sheets (can be used with any word list)
• 3 bonus phonemic awareness sorting activities
• Colorful poster with directions for students on how to use pop-its to map words
• Spelling Patterns Include: th, sh, ch, _ck, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, scr, squ, spl, str, bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl.
• Ending blends are also included
• All words contain a short vowel.