Before taking Explicit Phonics and Lively Letters with my district, I was falsely under the assumption that phonics was taught in primary grades while my sole job was to focus on affixes (prefixes & suffixes) as well as roots.
While I do teach those roots and affixes, there are also grade level skills my students need help with.
I found this great, simple diagram:
We need to be teaching advanced phonics in the upper grades of elementary as well. FCRR has some awesome free advanced phonics centers that I know my students love!
We have been working on the /el/, /en/ and /er/ sounds, so I added these to our phonics wall:
Happy decoding!
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