- Phonics and Stuff -
I discovered Phonics and Stuff when I was looking for resources to use for my class of ESL students. Teaching them phonemic awareness, and how to decode words; taking some ideas from the Science of Reading and using “heart” words and word maps, this site was able to provide premade tools I can choose from to utilize during instruction. Developed by a Montessori teacher and reading expert, it is a website with many available learning tools and resources for teachers. There are games, read-alongs (rhyming poems that are read aloud), decodable stories that focus on specific phonics elements, tools for teaching phonics, and articles about phonics.
The website itself is still in development, but many tools are available and ready to use. Visually it looks nice, simple, and the variety of texts is minimal. I would say the best part of the site are the interactive games and teaching tools. I like how you can customize your selection with the grapheme or phoneme you want to focus on. The games have instructions, which can be set up by the teacher or allow a student to customize their practice activity. There is a read aloud function available, and a points tracker in the corner of the activity. There is a sentence building app which are simple sentences but is good for practicing decoding, fluency, and maybe even as a writing activity. To me, this is an effective tool for teaching literacy.
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