New No-Prep Phonics Lessons for CVC Words!

Need resources that are ready to go for your phonics lessons? Look no further! We’re here to save you time by offering materials that require no prep—just pick them up and start teaching. This year, we’re thrilled to bring you our all-new Learn to Read Phonics Lessons!

This instalment in the phonics lesson series is the Learn to Read Short U – Phonics for Kids instructional slide deck. It’s designed to cover everything you need to teach phonics, starting with the short ‘u’ sound and its CVC word families.

The package includes four days of skill practise, followed by a review and word mapping session. How do these lessons work? Here’s a quick rundown.

• On day one, your students will learn the short u sound, then move through a series of timed slides with automated letter tiles to sound out and blend words in the -ug word family. Students will then take turns reading words in the -ug family in isolation and in context. This practise is followed by an interactive word mapping exercise where students will say, tap, count, and map the sounds in each word.
• The remaining four lessons are identical in structure, whole focusing on different short u word families.

Teach Students to Read Short U Words Only a Week!

With this comprehensive and interactive slide deck, you’ll guide your beginning readers through the process of mastering short ‘o’ words in just one week! This resource is carefully structured with four full days of lessons, each designed to target key phonics skills such as:

• Sounding out CVC words
• Blending individual sounds into words
• Decoding simple phrases and sentences
• Practicing word mapping for deeper understanding

Here’s what the full week of instruction includes:

• 184 interactive slides, complete with animations for structured lessons
• Lessons focused on 4 different short ‘u’ word families
• A review activity with:
  • 10 words for blending practise
  • 10 words for word-building activities

By the end of this week, your students will confidently sound out, blend, decode, and map CVC words featuring the short ‘u’ sound!

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

To access your resource, click the dropdown arrow next to the download button. Then, you can choose either the PowerPoint or Google Slides version of the file.

Be sure to carefully review all instructions before you begin. Most slides are designed to be used in slideshow or presentation mode, but for the word mapping exercises, you’ll need to switch to Edit mode. These exercises are conveniently grouped by day to make it easier to navigate without having to switch modes frequently.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.

Check out the other editions of Teach Starter’s Learn to Read – Phonics for Kids Instructional lessons.

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