Help your learners find chunks they know with these free Color the Chunk Phonics Pages!
These free packs are just a part of the HUGE Color the Chunk Phonics Bundle Pack.
*Find all our FREE Color the Chunk Phonics Pages links towards the END of this post!
Looking for more? We have helpful visuals for decoding strategies for beginning readers and reading strategies for longer words.
Why Teach Reading by Chunks?
Teaching learners how to look for chunks they know to help them read a word is SUCH a powerful tool! Why? Because longer words are just smaller parts of words put together.
Once learners understand this, it truly unlocks the “magic” of reading those bigger words. {And as an added bonus, the ability to hear these chunks helps learners spell words, too!}
While we teach learners other strategies, like look at the picture, learners will outgrow many of them. Teaching learners to find chunks in words lasts a lifetime.
Proficient readers don’t often come to words they don’t know {unless your reading an article on physics}. But when they do, they search for chunks to help them read the word. The chunks just get larger and are based on affixes, base words, or root words.
Why Color the Chunk Phonics Pages?
Even if you’ve only taught 2 kids in your life, you know that every learner is different. Some learn better by DOING (kinesthetic learners). Some are auditory learners. And some are visual learners. I love that these Color the Chunk Pages hit on all three kinds of learners.
- Kinesthetic Learners are COLORING in the word chunks {My kinesthetic learner LOVES to color. I truly think it calms her brain.}
- Visual Learners are SEEING the chunks “pop” out after they are colored
- Auditory Learners are HEARING themselves READ the words ALOUD
And hitting all three different kinds of learners {multisensory} at once is one of the best ways to reach and teach your struggling readers!
Color the Chunk Phonics Pages
A quick disclaimer: Before you place one of these pages in front of your learners, it is imperative that you TEACH the chunk. Using these pages is just ONE way that learners can practice what you’ve already taught.
Keep scrolling down for all the freebies! Grab the comprehensive Color the Chunk Phonics Bundle from my shop! It includes 60+ extra pages, PDFs formatted for easy upload to Seesaw, and a handy, dandy link to Google Slides so you can assign them digitally!
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any of our FREE Color the Chunk Phonics Pages!
Enjoy!
~Becky