Paint with the colors of reading! Learners in special education classes or mainstream classes practice decoding basic and advanced code with a series of sentences on paint blobs. Once they read the sentence, learners cover one spot on their paint palates, until the entire page is covered.

Concepts

decoding words, vowel sounds, beginning reading, phonics

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Send home with learners to practice with parents
• Have kids work in partners, small groups, or as a whole class to master the decoding

Classroom Considerations

• Pair kids with similar reading levels to reduce frustration in the game

Pros

• A fun way to assess reading ability
• Provides varying levels of difficulty to differentiate between your learners

Cons

• None

Common Core

RF.1.3.a RF.2.3.a RF.3.3.a