5 Literacy

Component
s
An overview of
the five most
important
literacy
components each
with related

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Literactives Phonics
Choose from numerous
activities for
letters, sight words, and letter

Mall

Phonics creates skilled

and fluent word-readers.
Kangaroo Confusion
Learners can match uppercase
and lowercase letters.

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Phonics can be defined as

the method of teaching
elementary spelling and
saying words, or reading
them out loud, based on
the phonetic
interpretation of ordinary
spelling.

Vocabulary
Fluency
With the proper fluency skills,
students can recognize words
without any hassle. Fluency is the
ability to read quickly and
accurately with correct expression
and intonation.

Phonemic Awareness

Roy the Zebra

Phonemic Awareness is the ability

to hear, identify, and manipulate
individual sound phonemes in
spoken words.

This website has many fun

interactive reading games,
guided reading stories, songs,
and more!

Phonemic Awareness is important

for students because it improves a
childs comprehension skills, it
helps students learn to spell words
properly, and students can also
recognize words with similar or
even identical sounds.

www.RoytheZebra.com

Orsons Family Farm Game

Choose between a variety of

activities including blending,
substitution, rhyming, and more!
http://www.professorgarfield.org/P
honemics/farm3.html

Cliffords Beginning Sounds

Students choose the pictures of
words that begin with the same
sound as the given picture.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/cliffo

Reading Fluency
Resources

This website has tons of great

activities to do at home with
free pintables!
http://www.readingresource.net
/readingfluencyactivities.html

Sight Word/Phrases (Dolch

and Fry Lists)

Vocabulary helps students

understand terms so that they
will better understand topics.
A good vocabulary can
increase skills in both reading
and writing for students of all
grade levels.

Synonym Sams Lab

Choose the words that are

synonyms to the given word.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/
synsam.html

Comprehension
Comprehension is the ability to
understand what one is
reading, reading is thinking.
Students with the right
comprehension skills will be
able to make connections to
stories as they read through it.

Contact Me
Mall
Mallory Martin
SUNY Fredonia
(315) 436-9207
mart6610@fred
onia.edu