Let's dive into the sea and spell CVC words with the turtles. This fun and interactive activity is sure to help your kids with phonemic awareness as they identify images and spell out the words that match with them. Spelling these words is sure to improve their reading fluency and phonological awareness.

What is it? In this phonemic awareness activity students will identify the picture and spell out the correct word that matches with the picture on the right hand corner. If correct all letters on the turtle will be marked with green circles and will proceed to the next picture. If incorrect, a red circle is automatically marked and the incorrect letters will snap back in place.

Who is it for? This is primarily for early readers who are just beginning to decode words. Students that has acquired the essential skills of letter recognition in the sounds that each letter makes, then this activity is a perfect for blending the sounds together to form words.

How to play it? Students will identify the picture and search for the correct letters in the green turtle spots off to the bottom right hand corner. Students will click and drag the letters that makes up the picture they see to the middle section of the turtle. For example, if students see a cat, they will say the word cat and listen to each sound the word cat makes. Once they have determined the three letters that forms the word cat, they will drag the letters (c,a,t) to the middle portion of the turtle.

How to set it up?

No Prep – The wonderful thing about using Boom Cards is that you don’t have to worry about setting it up. You are good to go if you have Internet service on your technology device. No need to cut, paste, or laminate countless number of papers. No need to print; even though Boom provides that option.

Immediate Feedback – This is one of the best features of Boom Learning. Once answers are picked, Boom provides quick responses with red circles indicating incorrect answers and green circles for correct answers. Drop zones are indicated by blue boxes to make it easy for students to see where things should be placed.

Self-Grading - Tracking progress on Boom is self-explanatory. Records are stored into the system automatically to make grading a breeze. Everything from the time they started the activity to the incorrect answers; are all in display screen for teachers to view.

How to use it? These digital task cards can be used in the language and reading Center. It promotes reading, spelling, phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and picture association. 

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What is included? 20 Interactive digital task cards, 20 CVC matching pictures that corresponds with formulated CVC words.

Why is it a great activity? It promotes reading and listening skills. The most important factor of phonemic awareness is the ability to listen to individual sounds and being able to connect them to other sounds of the letters and then eventually creating words. I enjoyed coming up with the concept of using an under the sea animal and I'm hoping your kids love it too.