Across the Miami Valley, we have seen hundreds of classrooms using fun, multisensory activities for teaching phonics. We love to see all of the creativity used to engage young learners in this essential skill! In today's Academic Area, we will showcase some of these fabulous ideas.
Letter Identification
Students with autism and low-incidence disabilities often need multiple opportunities to practice when learning new skills. We love these repetitive tasks and manipulatives for identifying letters, matching uppercase and lowercase letters, and remembering letter sounds that can be used again and again for skill practice.
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Dustin Krouse
Horace Mann Elementary, Springfield |
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Jamie Minnish
Prass Elementary, Kettering |
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Tracey Cooper
Tecumseh Elementary, Clark ESC |
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Katie Bigelow and Casey Lathrop
Brookville Elementary, Brookville |
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Heather Venters
Trotwood ELC, Trotwood |
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Tracey Cooper
Tecumseh Elementary, Clark ESC |
Phonemic Awareness
Many students with autism and low-incidence disabilities are visual learners. Use visual supports like the examples below to assist with segmenting, blending, and manipulating letter sounds.
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Tracey Cooper
Tecumseh Elementary, Clark ESC |
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Mary Nolan
Valley Forge Elementary, Huber Heights |
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Sandy Beck
Broadway Elementary, Tipp City |
Hands-On Activities
Passive listening is hard for many of our students, but they excel when able to actively engage with hands-on activities!
These are some great examples of ways to engage students in spelling activities...
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| Kinetic Sand Stamping |
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Athenia Eversole
Versailles Elementary, Versailles |
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| Paint Bag Spelling |
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| Magnetic Letter Spelling |
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Katie Bigelow and Casey Lathrop
Brookville Elementary, Brookville |
...and beginning sound activities.
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Tracey Cooper
Tecumseh Elementary, Clark ESC |
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Katie Bigelow and Casey Lathrop
Brookville Elementary, Brookville |
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Jackie Vollmer
Driscoll Elementary, Centerville |
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Mandy Whitfield
MCESC Learning Center-East |
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Debi Gnau
Mad River Early Childhood Center, Mad River |
Unique Learning System Activities
Many of the classrooms we coach use N2Y's Unique Learning System (ULS) curriculum. Unique provides phonics activities that can be completed online or as printables. Some teachers use the predictable format of ULS to create repetitive, interactive activities that can be used month after month.
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| ULS Rhyming Word Task |
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| ULS Rhyming Picture Task |
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| ULS Phonics File Folder |
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| ULS Beginning Sound Pocket Chart Sort |
The Phonics Dance
Another popular program that we see across many districts is
The Phonics Dance by Ginny Dowd which combines movements, rhymes, and chants to help students learn letter sounds and phoneme blends.
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Athenia Eversole
Versailles Elementary, Versailles |
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Karen Shires
Valley Elementary, Beavercreek |
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Kathy Timmerman
Fairbrook Elementary, Beavercreek |
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Mallory Normile
Broadway Elementary, Tipp City |
Thank you to all of the teachers who have shared these fabulous ideas with us!
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