Teaching Resource
Phonics Find Description Cards
A set of 32 task cards prompting students to use their phonics knowledge to find words that include specific sounds.
This teaching resource is a great way for students to practise their phonics knowledge through physical activity.
This set of 32 task cards prompts students to find words that fit a specific description while they simultaneously perform some type of physical movement. Simply spread out a set of word cards you feel are appropriate for your students, and then read a description card. While performing the action given on the card, students must find a word that matches the description. Once everyone has found a spot, have each child read their word to the class.
These task cards are levelled for your convenience. The first 16 pink cards can be used with CVC words, while the remaining 16 green cards are meant to be used with CVCe words as well as words that include blends and vowel digraphs.
This resource works great using any of the word cards from the Dolch Sight Words Resource Collection.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- ENe-3A
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
- ENe-5A
Demonstrates developing skills in using letters, simple sound blends and some sight words to represent known words when spelling
- EN1-5A
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
- EN2-5A
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter–sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA226
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
- VCELA249
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters
- VCELA239
Identify all Standard Australian English phonemes, including short and long vowels, separate sounds in clusters
- VCELA146
Recognise all upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound that each letter represents
- VCELA169
Blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words and isolate, blend and segment phonemes in single syllable words (first consonant sound, last consonant sound, middle vowel sound)
- VCELA181
Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends
- VCELA203
Identify the separate phonemes in consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of syllables
- VCELA183
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1825
Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations
- ACELA1440
Recognise and name all upper and lower case letters (graphemes) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
- ACELA1458
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words
- ACELA1824
Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable
- ACELA1459
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
- ACELA1826
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
- ACELA1471
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words
- ACELA1822
Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words
- ACELA1819
Segment sentences into individual words and orally blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words, and isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single syllable words
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