Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Phonics Flip Cards

This summer I am working extra hard with Bubee and his reading. Meme came across this idea over at Kids Activity Blog and I knew I had to make one!! What a wonderful way to work on blends, sounds, and phonics. After I made it Bubee sat down with it and zoomed through the first word family. Yeay!!


  • Spiral bound set of index cards (I could only find these neon ones, but I think they worked better than plain white ones)
  • Sharpie marker (I liked this one with a fine tip and a regular tip)
  • Scissors


1. Cut the index cars about 1/3 from the left (This is better illustrated in the picture on the right) so that to have a smaller card on the left and larger card on the right. With regular scissors you can only cut through about 5 cards at a time, so use your previously cut card to line up the next one so that your cards will flip easily.

2. Write your word families on the cover and the right hand cards (This is why I loved having the fine tip sharpie for the cover and the regular tip for the cards). The list I used was: est, in, ock, ug, ack, ant, ick, ame, ide, ink, ate, ump, eat, ore, oil, op, ine, ice, ain, ank, at, ash, eep, ight, oke, unk, own, ing, and y.  You can use just about any word families that your child needs.

3. On the left hand cards write the blends and letters. I used: B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Qu, R, S, T, V, W, Y, Z, ab, ad, bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr, th, sh, ch, wh, sch, sk, sn, sm, sp, st, str, sw, kn. Notice I did not use any vowels, or "X" and I used "Qu" instead of just "Q".

If I had it to do over I would NOT have capitalized the single letters,

but it still turned out nicely!


This is a great tool to use many ways. I have Bubee flip through and read to me while I'm working. It's so easy and great exercise!! This summer he has to give me 5 min in his flip cards before he can watch the TV and he doesn't even mind.


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Totally brilliant idea! This would be great for homeschoolers or for those with kids in a traditional school. A fun 'game' to play to help your child learn. Thanks for sharing with us, love this!
1 reply · active 561 weeks ago
Thanks. I use it with my son so he can get some extra practice this summer. ;)
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1 reply · active 561 weeks ago
What a great idea! So simple but I never would have thought of it! Thanks for linking it up to Snickerdoodle Sunday! Hope to see you again next week! - Kristina
1 reply · active 561 weeks ago
It is very simple, but it has been one of my favorite teaching tools. Thanks for stopping by.
This really is such a clever idea! Thanks for sharing it with Share Your Cup.
hugs,
Jann
1 reply · active 561 weeks ago
Thanks so much. Be sure to follow the link where I got the idea in the first place ;) Thanks for stopping by :D
Congratulations! You’re one of this week’s features at our Fabulously Frugal Thursday party!
1 reply · active 561 weeks ago
Awesome! Thanks so much. Do you have a button?
This is a great idea! I remember fondly the days of teaching my boys to read. Wish I'd had this idea back then!
1 reply · active 561 weeks ago
Thanks. We're I've got one reader, one learning, and one still too young. Looking forward to being past this point, but in the mean time I too am happy for this tool ;)
Great idea! Thank you for sharing this post at City of Creative Dream's City of Links on Friday! I appreciate you taking the time to party with me. Hope to see you again this week :)
1 reply · active 561 weeks ago
Thanks so much for the party. See you soon ;)
What a great idea!
1 reply · active 560 weeks ago
These phonics card are great and so easy to make!!-
1 reply · active 560 weeks ago
They were super easy to make ;)
Really cool! Thanks for linking!
1 reply · active 560 weeks ago
Thanks for stopping by!
Definitely love this idea. Would have been so much of a help to use with my son! I like that you used the different colored cards. Thanks so much for sharing, and your post will be featured in tonight's What'd You Do This Weekend. Pinned! :-)

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3 replies · active 560 weeks ago
Thanks so much! It has been a huge help with my son :D Do you have a button?
Sure do! Both my main blog button and the one for the linkup are either on the sidebar of my blog or you can snag it from the bottom of the linkup post. :-)
awesome! Thanks! :D
Nice post

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