Phonics Book A Extension Activities

Unit 1 the letters.) Students fold up their cards. Start the

music again and have students pass the cards.
Listening Game for B and P Divide the class Option: For a challenge, prepare cards with p, P, B, and
into teams. Ask one team member from each team to b and mix them in with the other cards.
come up to the board. Draw a large b in front of each
student. Say, Listen and touch. Model this. Say, ball. Which Sound? Draw two columns on the board.
Touch b. Say, pen. Shake your head and don’t touch. Write t above one column and d above the other.
Each team gets one point for the correct answer. Say, turtle. Put a check under t. Say, desk. Put a check
Repeat these words: ball, picture, pen, book, boy, under d. Say, duck. Ask a student to put a check under
pencil. Erase the b, write a p and repeat the activity d. Choose students to come to the board and continue
with the same words. the game. Next, the students make their own boards
and check the letters. Say these words: tree, desk,
Pencil Letters Make a p like this: Hold your pencil duck, turtle, door, tape, telephone, two, dish,
straight up with your left hand. This is the straight line table, Tony.
of the p. Make a half circle with your right hand and
place it at the top part of the pencil to create the p.
Say, p. Move your right hand down to the lower part of
your pencil and say, b. Show the students. As you say
Unit 3
each letter, help students move their hands up and Say the Letter Write p, b, t, d, c, g on the board. Ask
down to form the letter. a student to come up. Point to two letters, for example
c and g. Trace one letter on the student’s back. Motion
Hold It Up Have students write the letters b and p for the student to touch the letter you traced and say
on individual cards. Assign groups. Ask two groups to it. Trace it again if necessary. Continue with other
come to the front. Say a word that begins with b or p. students. Students can also do this in pairs.
The groups must hold up the correct letter card. The
first team whose member holds up the correct letter C/G Pictures Show students how to fold a piece of
card wins. Continue with other words, then play the paper so that there are four boxes on the page. Show
game with other groups. them how to draw lines along the folds to make boxes.
Have students write Cc in the top left box. Point to the
Take a Step Ask a group of students to go to the box next to it and tell students to draw a word that
back of the room. Write a b on the board. Tell students starts with c. Point to the bottom left box and write Gg.
to take a step if the word you say begins with a b. They Point to the box next to it and tell students to draw
should not move if the word begins with a p. If they something that starts with g. When students are
do, they must sit down. The student who first reaches finished, put them in groups and have them show
the front of the class wins. Say, ball. Gesture for their work to each other and say the letters and
students to take a step. Say, boy. Gesture for students pictures.
to take another step. Say, pen. Gesture for students to
stand still. Continue with the game saying other b and
p words. Play with other groups of students. Erase b,
write p, and play the game again.
Unit 4
Hat Project Distribute strips of construction paper
that are long enough for students to form a hat. Tell
Unit 2 students to write Aa on them. Then tell them to draw
things that have the // sound in them. Tape the strip
Hit It! Ask four students to come to the board. In together so that it fits like a hat.
front of each of them write the letters t and d. Tell
them to hit the letter they hear as you say these words: Make a Word! Groups of six stand in a circle. Each
duck, desk, table, door, telephone, turtle, dish, tape, student has a letter card (c, b, t, a, p, g). The student
Tony. Repeat the activity with other students. with the letter a stands in the center. Say to the
students, Listen. Make the word. Show the cap
Pass, Stop, Say Make up cards with the letters picture. Say, /k/ /æ/ /p/. Tell the students to help each
T, t, d, or D on them. Make one card for each letter. other form the word. The students with the c and p
Fold each card. Play music. Give the cards to students letters stand in the center with the a and form the
around the room and motion to pass the cards. Stop word. Check that each group understands what to do.
the music. The students holding cards open them, Repeat with bat, tag, tab, pat, bag, cat.
show them to the class, and say the letter names (and,
if you prefer, say a sound and a word that starts with

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Throw and Say Stand in a circle. Hold a soft ball. box number 2 (top box on the right), draw a little fish.
Say, /æ/ /æ/ bag. Throw the ball to a student. Help Check. Say, In box number 3 (bottom box, left), draw
them say, /æ/ /æ/ cat. Have them throw the ball to a big fish. Check. Say, In box number 4, write your
another student. Have that student say /æ/ /æ/ and name. Ask students to show their work to other
another word such as (bat, cap, Sam, Sally, apple, students and say the words.
taxi). Continue around the circle. Students can repeat
words, but they must not repeat the last word they
hear. Unit 7
Listen and Step Stand at one end of the room. Say,
Unit 5 Listen and look. Say, top and take a step. Say, stop
and take another step. Say, tap. Begin to take a step,
Hold It Up Write, 1 Ee, draw an egg, and write egg but shake your head. Say, hop and take a step. Say,
on the board. Write, 2 Aa, draw a cat, and write cat. hip. Shake your head and don’t move. The object is to
Have these picture cards ready: bed, egg, desk, bat, only take a step when you hear a word with the /A�/
hen, bag, pet, ant, ten, candy, elephant, cat. Say, sound. Continue. When students clearly understand
Listen. Egg, /e/, egg. Put the card under 1 Ee. Say, Cat, the game then ask a group of students to join you. The
/æ/, cat. Put the card under 2 Aa. Point to Ee and Aa. following words are grouped by similar letters to help
Say, Choose. Hold up your fingers. Bed, /e/, bed. students hear the short o sound.
Students hold up one finger. Say, bat, /æ/, bat. 1. top, top, top, tip, top, top, tap, tap, top, tip, top;
Students hold up two fingers. Show the rest of the 2. hop, hop, hip, hip, hop, hip, hop; (Teach the word
cards. Encourage students to name the card and hold socks by pointing to students’ socks before you start.)
up their fingers. 3. socks, socks, sax, socks, sax, socks, six, six, sax,
socks, socks, sax, socks.
E Pictures Fold a paper in half. Then fold it again.
You will have four boxes. Draw this on the board. Hit It! Ask four students to come to the front. Tell
Number the boxes on the board. In box one, tell the them each to draw a large o on the board. Tell them
students to write E. In box two, tell them to write e. that they will hear words that have the /A�/ as in ox in
In boxes three and four, tell students to draw an object them. When they hear the /A�/ sound, they must hit
from the page. Have students share their pictures the letter o. Model this for them. Start slow. Increase
in groups. the speed to challenge the students. 1. top, top, top,
tip, top, top, tap, tap, top, tip, top; 2. hop, hop, hip,
hip, hop, hip, hop; 3. socks, socks, sax, socks, sax,
Unit 6 socks, six, six, sax, socks, socks, sax, socks.

Stand Up/Sit Down Students listen to words.

Draw a stick figure sitting in a chair. Next to it write
sit. Draw a picture of someone standing and write
Unit 8
stand. If the words have the // sound in them, Left Hand Up Students will raise their hands when
students sit. If a word does not have the // sound in they hear words with the short u sound. Say, cup and
it, they stand. Clearly model this. Students begin by raise your hand. Say, cap and lower your hand. Say,
sitting. Repeat these words: big, bag, big, big, bug, bug and raise your hand. Say, big and lower your
bug, big, bag, big, bug, bug, big, big. hand. Alternate saying the following words. Check that
students raise their hands when they hear the sound.
Letter Art Instruct students to fold a paper in half 1. cup, cap, 2. bug, big, bag.
lengthwise. Open it. On one side students draw a large
upper- and lowercase I. On the right side, students Stomach Aches! Students practice the /F/ sound
draw something that has the short // sound in it. by “eating and drinking” too much and bending over
Students can use seeds, glitter, or other materials to with a stomachache as they groan and say, uhhh!
decorate the letters. Students listen to words. Then get sick when they hear
a word with the short u sound and bend over.
Phonics Challenge Pictures Ask students to fold Students get well and stand up when they hear a word
a paper so that there are four boxes on the page. Tell that does not have a short u in it. Say, egg, car,
them to number the boxes from 1–4. (Show how to do noodles, bug (bend over), cup, tub, milk (stand up),
this on the board.) Say, In box number 1 (top box on water, umbrella (bend over), thirsty (stand up), bus
the left), write the letter i. Check their work. Say, In (bend over), up. Continue with other words or repeat
the sequence again.

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 Unit 9 Phonics Challenge Divide students into groups of
four. Assign each student a letter (s, z, v, f). Tell them
Hit It! Ask four students to come to the board. to write it on a piece of paper and hold it up. First, say
Write a large Mm and Nn on the board in front of each each letter and motion for the students with that letter
student. Motion for students to hit the letter of the to hold it up. Then say words that start with the letters.
beginning sound in the words they hear. Say these When groups hear the words, the team member with
words and any other words the students know that the correct letter holds it up as quickly as possible.
begin with m and n: nose, marker, map, nail, nest, The first student to hold up the correct card wins a
mop, night, milk, name, noodles. Repeat with other point for his or her team.
students.

Phonics Pictures Show students how to fold their

papers twice to make four boxes. Tell them to write Unit 12
the letter Mm in the top left box and draw a picture of Phonics Pictures Show students how to fold a
something that starts with the letter in the top right paper into four boxes. In the upper left box, they write
box. Repeat this with Nn in the boxes below. Put the the letters Ll; in the upper right box, they draw a word
students in groups and have them show their pictures that begins with that letter. In the lower left box, they
to each other as they say the letters and the words. write the letters Rr; in the lower right box, they draw a
word that begins with that letter. Put the students in
A Listening Game Tell students to sit and clap
groups and have them show their pictures to each
when they hear words that start with the /m/ sound
other as they say the name of each letter and the
and to stand when they hear words that start with the
picture.
/n/ sound. Model the activity with students. Then ask
students to respond on their own. Say these and other Letter Bingo Show students how to fold a paper
words the students know: nose, me, mops, nails, map, three times to create eight boxes. Have students write
nest, marker, market, money, noodles. these letters in the boxes and cut them out: m, n, f, v,
s, z, l, r. Students choose six letters and make two rows
of three cards. Make one word card or picture card for
Unit 10 each letter. Have a student choose a card. Ask the class
to say the word and the letter it begins with. Students
Listening Fun Say the following pairs of words. turn that letter over. Students who turn over all their
Students stand up if the words are the same and sit letters first win.
down if the words are different. Model the activity for
each word first: fan/fan; van/fan; van/fan; van/van;
fan/fan; fan/van. Repeat. v f s l
Drive Away! Ask students to sit in a circle. Walk
around the circle and, as you walk, tap each student
and say either fan or van. When you say van, the
r z w m
student you tapped gets up and “drives” around the
circle and sits down again. Continue playing until each
student has had a turn to “drive” around the circle.
Unit 13
Which Letter? Write Ww and Yy on the board.
Unit 11 Say words students know, such as yellow, window,
white, yo-yo, worm, walk, yak, web, yes, wagon,
Listening Fun Draw a snake on the board and write
water, and windy without their initial letters. For
s and say, snake. Make a s-s-s-s sound as you move
example, _indy. Encourage students to say the word
your hand and arm like a snake moving through the
with its correct beginning sound. Point to the correct
grass. Then draw a bee and write z. Say, bee. Make a
letter if students need help.
z-z-z-z sound as you pinch your fingers to make a bee
flying through the air. Say the following words and Phonics Steps Ask two small groups of students
other words that the students know: sunny, sock, to go to opposite sides of the front of the room.
zebra, zoo, sandwich, zero. Allow the class to respond Through gestures and modeling the activity, show
each time by making the s-s-s-s or z-z-z-z sound and students that they will hear words. Every time they
acting out the snake or bee. hear a word that begins with w, they take a step. If
they take a step on the wrong sound, they must take
one step backward. The first group to arrive on the

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other side wins. Suggested words are: windy, web,
yellow, wagon, yak, yo-yo, window, young, water,
Unit 16
worm, yes. Letter Bingo Write the letters s, z, x, q, k, w, y, r, l
on the board. Have picture cards ready, one for each
Phonics Pictures Tell students to fold their paper letter, and put them in a pile. Review the letter names
two times to make four boxes on the page. In the and sounds. Show students how to fold a paper three
upper left box, tell them to write the letter Ww. In the times so that there are eight boxes on the page. Tell
upper right, tell them to draw an object that starts them to write a letter in each box and then to cut out
with w. Repeat this with Yy in the lower two boxes. the boxes to make cards. Tell them to choose six cards
Then put students in small groups and have them and place them on their desks and put the other cards
show each other their pictures and say the letters aside. Show a picture card such as queen. Ask the class
and words. to say the word for the picture and the letter it starts
with. Students with the letter q turn over the card.
Continue this with other picture cards. The first
Unit 14 students to turn over all their cards are the winners.
Run and Touch Write the letters h and j on the Hold Up x Give each student an index card and
board. Call a student’s name. Then say the name of a have him or her write the letter x on it. Say words such
word that starts with h or j. The student must repeat as, ox, fox, ax, dress, sneakers, six, kitchen, shirt, sax,
the word, run to the board, and touch the beginning fish, fox, clothes. Motion for students to hold up their
letter of the word. Suggested words are: hand, head, x cards only when they hear a word with the
juice, hat, jam, jacket, hop, jet, job, horse, jump. /ks/ sound.

Listening Relay Write the letters Jj and Hh on the

board. Ask students to make two lines or play with
two rows of students at a time. Go to the back of the
Unit 17
room. Ask the last person in the rows to come to you. Hold It Up Write a__e on the board. Tell students to
Whisper a different word to each student. When you write the letters a__e on a piece of paper. Say words
say, Go!, the students run to their rows and whisper such as the following and tell students to hold up the
the word to the next student. The students continue to paper when they hear the /e/ sound: cap, cap, cape,
whisper the word to the students in front of them. The cape, man, can, cane, can, mane, name, game, can,
last student says the word and runs and touches the cap, cap, cape, can, cane.
letter it starts with. Give each team points for both
saying the word and touching the correct letter. Say It Right Students listen as you show a Picture
Repeat with other words. Card and say the word. If you are correct they repeat
the word. If you are incorrect, they are quiet and shake
their heads. Call on students to say the correct
Unit 15 pronunciation.

Hold It Up Tell students to write the letter k on a

piece of paper and q on a different paper. Tell them Unit 18
that you will say words. When they hear a word that
starts with /k/, they must hold up the letter k; when Hold It Up Put students in groups of five. Write five
they hear a word that begins with /kw/, they must phonics words from page 40 on the board. Each
hold up the letter q. Say, king, question, kite, kitchen, student in group writes a different word from the
quilt, queen, kite, king, kitten, question, quiet, kit. phonics list on a card. Next, say one of the words. The
student in each group with the word must raise his or
Make a Crown Point to the crowns in D on page her card up and say the word. The first student to hold
35. Tell students to make their own crowns. Use up his or her card gets to choose and say the next
paper large enough to wrap around a student’s head word. Repeat. Then choose five new words and play
or tape paper together. Have the girls write a qu the game again.
for queen on their crowns and the boys a k for king.
Encourage students to decorate their crowns with Odd Word Out Students hear three words, for
pictures or drawings of objects that begin with example, meat, red, pet. They must hold up their
their letter. fingers—either one, two, or three—to show which
word has the /i�/ sound and repeat the word. Practice
this first as a class. Exaggerate the sounds a little to
help students distinguish between the short e and
long e sounds.

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 Pass and Say Pass a ball around the class. As each
student takes the ball, he or she must say a word with
Unit 21
the /i�/ sound. Students can repeat words, but they Listen for the Sound Divide the class into two
must not repeat the last word they heard. Encourage groups. Assign one group to be the /u�/ and /ju�/ group
students to slightly exaggerate the /i�/ sound as they (long u sound) and the other to be the // group
say the word. (short u sound). Have students exaggerate the
movements for each sound: Make a huge U with arms
up, and a tiny u with the hands. Say one of the
Unit 19 following words: tube, tub, cube, flute, tub, duck,
sun, huge, cut, tune, duke, up, under, cube. The
Phonics Sentences Put students in pairs. Have group with the sound must make the movement for
them make a sentence with three phonics words. One the sound and repeat the word. Continue with the
partner writes the sentence on a piece of paper. The other words.
other partner draws a picture of it on another piece of
paper. Pairs keep their sentences. Collect the pictures Phonics Challenge: Review Put students in lines
and redistribute them to different pairs. Each pair facing the board. In front of each line write in large
looks at the picture they have and writes a sentence letters the vowels: a, e, i, o, u. Say a phonics word with
for it, underlining the three phonics words they see. a long vowel sound from any of the units, such as
Each pair shows the picture and reads the sentence to name, cake, meat, she, kite, time, hole, cone, cube,
the class. Then the pair that drew the picture reads the tube. The first student in each line runs and touches
original sentence they wrote. the letter they hear. Then they run to the back of the
line. Give points for correct answers.
The Magic E Write and number these words: 1. pin
pine 2. kit kite 3. Tim time 4. fin fine. Explain that fish
have fins and that fins are what help the fish move
through the water. Say each word and have students
Unit 22
repeat. Then have all students write an e on a piece of Listening Game Put students in pairs. Assign one
paper. Next, tell students that you will say one word in student to write ch on a card and the other to write sh.
each pair. If the sound they hear has an /a/ sound in Then say a word from page 48, such as shirt. The
it, they hold up their e’s. Check students’ responses student in every pair holding the sh card must hold up
each time. his or her card. Repeat this for the other words. Allow
students who respond the fastest to say the next word.
Drop and Say Make a large circle on a large piece
of drawing paper. Divide the circle into eight spaces. Phonics Sentences Tell students to create
Write one word in each space: pin, pine, kit, kite, Tim, sentences using at least one sh word and one ch word.
time, bike, like. Have students make their own game They can be about the story or about anything else.
boards. Have students read the words with you. Give them examples of sentences so that they can
Drop a paper clip on the game board. Read the word it follow different language patterns, for example, The
lands on. Put students in pairs and have them take giant smells fish and cheese or I want a dish of cookies
turns dropping the paper clip and saying the words it and chocolate. Allow them to use the sentence on
lands on. pages 48–49 as a guide, too. Encourage them to be
creative. Have them illustrate their sentences (or have
them do this for homework). Put students in groups
Unit 20 and have them read their sentences and show their
pictures.
Make a Word Put students in groups of four. Have
them write these letters on individual pieces of paper:
b, o, n, s, e, r, p, t, v. Tell students that you will say one
of the words from the crossword puzzle on page 45.
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The students in each group must spell the word. Each Scrambled Words Put students in pairs. Have
student must hold a letter. The first group to spell the students fold a paper three times to make eight boxes.
word correctly gets to play the teacher and choose and Have them fold two papers this way. Each student in a
say the next word. pair chooses two phonics words (four words per pair).
The students write the words in the boxes (one letter
per box) and cut them out. They mix the letters for the
four words and clip them together. Collect all the sets
of cards. Redistribute the sets, making sure that each
pair gets a set different from the one they made.

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Students unclip the letters and unscramble the words.
Allow students to use the phonics words on the page
as a reference.

Toss and Say On the board, make two categories,

f and ph. Invite students to tell you a word with the /f/
sound and to come to the board and write the word
under the correct category. Allow students to draw a
picture of the word if they like. Hold a ball or small
toy. Say one of the words and toss the ball to
a student. That student says f or ph to indicate the
spelling of the /f/ sound in the word. Then he or she
says another word and tosses the ball to another
student who says either f or ph. Continue this until all
students have participated.

Unit 24
Toss and Say On the board write the t phonics
words in one column and the th words in another
column. Say them with students. Make a circle with
students. Say, top. Throw the ball to a student. The
student says another word with the /t/ sound. The
student throws the ball back to you. You say, thumb,
and throw the ball to another student. The student
says a word with the /∂/ sound and throws the ball
back to you. Continue saying a word and throwing
the ball. The students must listen carefully and say
a word with the same sound. Allow students to be
the teacher and choose the sound, too. Practice all
the words.

Fishing for Words Write t on five slips of paper

and th on five slips of paper. Mix them up. Have
picture cards for these words (top, tall, foot, thumb,
thirty, mouth, hat, tiger, thirteen, toe, path, bath) ready
and put them on the floor in front of students. Make a
fishing rod from a stick and string. Place a paperclip at
the end of the string and wrap tape around it so the
sticky side is on the outside. Invite a student to come
up and choose a slip of paper. The student says the
sound, t or th, and “goes fishing” for a word that goes
with that letter/those letters.

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