Nonsense Words Phonics Center – R Controlled Vowels & Diphthongs

More About This Resource

Use these Nonsense Words & Sentence Writing R controlled & Diphthong literacy centers to practice decoding one syllable words. It provides students with targeted phonics decoding practice! This resource is designed to make decoding fun while reinforcing sound-to-symbol correspondence. Students will decode a word, determine if it is real or nonsense, write the word in the correct column, and write a sentence. This resource is perfect for use during literacy centers, small group activities, or independent practice.

Resource Features:

•Engaging Phonics Skill Review: This resource provides students with targeted R controlled / Other Vowels & Diphthongs practice using nonsense words to build phonics skills in a fun, interactive way.

•Easily Differentiated: Each nonsense word activity comes with two recording sheet versions. One version has multiple supports including a sentence frame and phonics skill picture. The other version has a blank sentence space for students to write their own sentence.

•Low Prep: This resource is ready to use! Just print, cut, and go. It is ideal for busy teachers looking for engaging phonics activities with minimal preparation.

Key Benefits:

•Quick skill mastery check: By working with nonsense words, teachers can quickly look over the recording sheet to see if students have mastered reading words with blends and digraphs based on their sorting.

•Interactive Learning: This activity keeps students engaged as they categorize real and nonsense word cards independently or with others.

•Flexible Use: Designed for use in literacy centers, small group activities, or independent work, this resource easily fits into your existing phonics instruction plans.

What’s Included:

•9 R controlled / Other Vowels & Diphthongs nonsense word sort activities

•108 real word & 108 nonsense word cards (24 per skill)

•Nonsense word sort recording sheet (2 versions per skill – with & without sentence stem)

•1 Student-friendly direction sheet

Skills:

• r controlled ar

• r controlled er, ir, ur

• r controlled or, ore

• short oo

• long oo (u, ew, ue)

• diphthong ow, ou

• diphthong oi, oy

• complex vowel aw, all

• complex vowel au, alk, alt

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