Beginning and Ending Digraphs Literacy Locks | Literacy Activities | Phonics

Description

Engaging and hands-on Beginning and Ending Digraphs practice! Your students will love matching up the pictures and beginning and ending digraphs (locks and keys) and using the recording sheet to color, circle, or write down all of the beginning and ending digraphs they unlock! These are great for whole-class teaching, small group instruction, literacy centers, independent practice, morning work, or intervention.

What’s Included:

48 beginning digraph pictures (locks) and 48 corresponding digraphs (keys) in color OR black and white and 32 ending digraph pictures (locks) and 32 corresponding digraphs (keys) that can be matched together to practice an important and crucial beginning reading skill, recognizing beginning and ending digraphs. There are seven different optional recording sheet options. These locks can be used for many different purposes and in a variety of ways.

Why use Beginning and Ending Digraphs Literacy Locks?

Research supports how important it is for beginning readers to practice matching sounds to print. Intentional, frequent, and focused opportunities to practice over an extended time (deliberate practice) facilitates automaticity. Since research also shows that learners are more motivated to do an activity that is fun and novel, Beginning and Ending Digraph Literacy Locks are activities that meets that criteria. Literacy Locks combine the motivation of a hands-on, engaging activity and deliberate practice with the goal of helping students gain automaticity in reading and to do it in a way that is both fun and motivational.

How to Use:

Students choose a key, “read” the blend and find a picture on a lock that has the same beginning or ending digraph or vice versa (choose a lock, look at the picture on the lock, and find a key with the same beginning or ending digraph). Then, color the digraph in or circle it on the recording sheet (optional). For an added layer, students can sort the keys and/or locks by digraph. Go over any of the picture “names” on the locks that your students may have difficulty identifying before beginning the activity.

If you have any questions, please e-mail us at [email protected]. Be sure to click HERE to follow our store for new products and freebies! We will be adding additional Locks for a variety of math and literacy skills!

Thank you,

Linda Ekstrom and Michelle Woods