Vowel Teams and Diphthongs Decoding Drills | Phonics Fast Reads | Nonsense Words

These Phonics Fast Reads are perfect for students who are learning to read and write words with tricky vowel spelling patterns. Each Fast Read focuses on a specific phoneme and includes all of the various spelling patterns that make that phoneme. These phonics drills and repeated readings are designed to move students from slowly blending words to a level where decoding is habitual and automatic. The word sort is an added bonus!

Why did I create these Fast Reads?

I created these cards for the first grade students in my own classroom. After introducing a new phonics pattern my students need practice reading and applying the skills that they have just learned. I love using these cards as a warm up in guided reading groups. Then, I like to give my students paper copies so they can practice reading at their seats, sort the words by patterns {Word sorting sheets are included!}, and use paint dabbers to find phonics patterns in their individual books.

The Research

I created these Fast Reads as a way to improve fluency. According the the National Reading Panel, a few things are critical of good reading instruction.

Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness

Systematic phonics instruction

Methods to improve fluency

How do I use these cards in my classroom?

• Use them with individual students.
• Use them as a warm up in guided reading groups.
• Send them home with parents as a tool to practice at home.
• These cards are perfect for parent volunteers. It takes all of the guess work out of instruction.

How do I prepare the Fast Reads?

I like to print on cardstock and combine the cards with a metal ring at the top corner. If you are printing them so that individual students can take them home, you can print on white paper and staple the side.

Included:

-long a {a, ai, a_e, ay, ea, eigh, ei, ey}

(able, rain, cake, play, great, eight, vein, they)

-long e {ee, e_e, -e, ea, ey, -y, ie, ei}

(bee, these, we, eat, key, happy, chief, either)

-long i {i_e, ie, -y, igh, -i}

(nice, pie, my, light, rifle)

-long o {o_e, oa, oe, ow, o}

(note, boat, toe, snow, open)

-long u/oo {oo, u_e, ue, ew, ui, ou}

(moo, tube, blue, new, suit, soup}

-/aw/ {aw, au, all, al, wa, ough}

(saw, pause, mall, salt, water, cough)

-short e {ea, e}

(bread, fed)

-/ow/ {ow, ou}

(cow, out)

-/oi/ {oi, oy}

(coin, boy)

-/oo/ {oo, u}

(took, pull)

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